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- n. An uncultivated plain, or level region, covered with a spontaneous growth of heath, broom, and ferns; any unfertile level region or tract in which the soil is tilled with difficulty. “The Landes” is the name given especially to a region lying along the ocean, north of the Pyrenees, which was once a part of the bed of the sea, and is covered with sands of Pliocene age. These sands have in many places, at an inconsiderable depth beneath the surface, become compacted into beds of hard sandstone, called
alios . The word lande is used by writers in English only with reference to the geography of France, and especially to the region included in the department of the Gironde and in that named from this word Les Landes. This region bears naturally little but heath and broom, but on the seaward side has been extensively planted with sea-pines, which at once hold the sands in place and provide an important store of timber. The inland plains are generally occupied as sheep-runs. The Landes are dry in summer and marshy in winter.
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“For the love of GOD please stop acting like Barbarians bin lande”
“Grida hath three gates, one on eche side, and the thirde in the midst towarde the lande, which is called the port of Mecca, neere vnto which are 6. or 7.”
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“On the road to Périers we crossed a "lande" or common, where we met numerous carts carrying sea sand, here used to mix with the heavy soil as manure.”
“East, despairing to finde the passage, I turned backe againe, and sailed downe by the coast of that land toward the Equinoctiall (euer with intent to finde the saide passage to India) and came to that part of this firme lande which is nowe called Florida, where my victuals failing, I departed from thence and returned into England, where I found great tumults among the people, and preparation for wanes in Scotland; by reason whereof there was no more consideration had to this voyage.”
“Anyway vores regeringer fylde vores lande, ved at sende disse mennesker her.”
“Det var let at bevæge sig i Europa – men Schengen gjort det nemt for kriminelle og indvandrere til at flytte til andre lande.”
“Driejaarige reize naar China, te lande gedaan door den Moskovischen afgezant E. Ysbrants”
“December 12, 2008 8: 16 PM first time here, ,i dont even have an idea how i lande here but wat the heck i dont regret it.”
“In a complete dismantling of Henry's strategy of funding the testamentary bequests from cash, rather than lands, the executor-councilors argued that it was better "to perfourme the promesses of lande made by our late Souveraigne Lorde" rather than liquidate any of the royal moveable property to fund the will's bequests.”
“This interpretation makes the following phrase more understandable: "which would be very damaging to the situation of the land there" (hetwelcke den staet daer te lande seer schadelijck wesen soude).”
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