The king set about punishing Marshal, opposing his attempts to establish his family in their lands in Ireland and Wales.
After checking out a few more varieties, she lands on one that feels close enough to home.
Construction is due to begin before the end of December, which means that lands will be taken, villages relocated.
The stream of bubbly from the popped champagne bottle creates an angelic arc over her, and lands right in the glass.
Washington now found himself unable to even see the lands he was banking on to leave a lasting fortune.
They were the heroes of other lands; but have we not heroes also of our own?
In close connexion with the Survey and lands Department is the topic of exploration.
Many were the messages of regard and condolence that came from other lands.
She lies athwart the lands, and her shadow is over the seas.
Just now you spoke of your Essex lands in the fair Vale of Dedham as gone.
Old English land, lond, "ground, soil," also "definite portion of the earth's surface, home region of a person or a people, territory marked by political boundaries," from Proto-Germanic *landom (cf. Old Norse, Old Frisian Dutch, German, Gothic land), from PIE *lendh- "land, heath" (cf. Old Irish land, Middle Welsh llan "an open space," Welsh llan "enclosure, church," Breton lann "heath," source of French lande; Old Church Slavonic ledina "waste land, heath," Czech lada "fallow land").
Etymological evidence and Gothic use indicates the original sense was "a definite portion of the earth's surface owned by an individual or home of a nation." Meaning early extended to "solid surface of the earth," which had been the sense of the root of Modern English earth. Original sense of land in English is now mostly found under country. To take the lay of the land is a nautical expression. In the American English exclamation land's sakes (1846) land is a euphemism for Lord.
"to bring to land," early 13c., from land (n.). Originally of ships; of fish, in the angling sense, from 1610s; hence figurative sense of "to obtain" (a job, etc.), first recorded 1854. Of aircraft, attested from 1916. Related: Landed; landing.