Word: land
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Lyonesse, the legend has it, was the outpost of Roman power in Britain. On the tip of the Cornwall peninsula it lay, between Land's End and the Scilly Isles, until the ocean rose up and swallowed it. Today, "old fisherman still boast that when the sea is still, they can hear its church bells ring far down beneath the rippling keel...
Raymond Weaver's first novel is decidely a success. He has occasionally let satire better truth; he has even let it better niceness. But he has also illuminated the lives of the dwellers in a strange land, the devotees of a strange religion, and done so with precision and tact. That celibacy does not always prelude sanity; that religion does not necessarily preface morality are obvious facts. Yet a book like "Black Valley...
...Harrison, now 67, who went into court. She is unique among the widows of Presidents, for although she lived two years in the White House she was never First Lady of the Land. When Benjamin Harrison took office as President in 1889 his first wife (Caroline Lavinia Scott) was alive. She died in the White House in 1892, leaving a son and a daughter...
...Murder is stalking my footsteps today, even in this land of liberty, France. Mussolini, not content with making murder an institution in Italy, pursues his hatred and vengeance against his former friends, enemies now, even in the land where they have taken refuge...
...Museum trip and on the Smithsonian expedition of 1909. But there was this about the new expedition: It was, like the Field Museum trip, financed by a noted U. S. business man, by Walter P. Chrysler, whose low-hung, high-speed little motor cars have been darting through the land with wide acclaim in the past three years...