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  • It is a North-land aphorism that no man is a fit person to drive a team of huskies who cannot command the intensive adjectives and abjurations of at least two vernaculars, besides the one drunk in with his mother's milk.

    Husky — The Wolf Dog of the North 2010

  • Now when it was heard in Rome that the great Alla from the North-land had come thither on a Christian pilgrimage, all the noble Romans vied to do him honor.

    The Children's Portion Various

  • Atven was the son of a fisherman, and lived with his father on a flat sandy coast far away in the North-land.

    Soap-Bubble Stories For Children Fanny Barry

  • He sees the great North-land in the hands of Russia.

    Forty Years in South China The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D. Rev. John Gerardus Fagg

  • Jordan the constellation of the Southern Cross as a sight which their friends in the North-land could never see unless they crossed the equator.

    The Wedge of Gold C. C. Goodwin

  • It is interesting to know that at the time of this writing Major (Superintendent) Jennings, who knows the vast North-land and its perils well, is in command of the

    Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police R.G. MacBeth

  • The sun was beating down slantingly, as if we were in a southern latitude, instead of in the far North-land.

    The Smoky God, or: A Voyage to the Inner World 1908

  • Author of "The Way of the Strong," etc. Many a stalwart deed has been done and many a brave tale told of the forbidding but romantic North-land, but seldom has an author so combined

    The Man in the Twilight Ridgwell Cullum 1905

  • He sees the great North-land in the hands of Russia.

    Forty Years in South China Fagg, John Gerardus, 1860-1917 1894

  • High up, over wood and stream, the giant carried her; and then he flew swiftly away with her, towards his home in the chill North-land; and, when morning came, poor Idun found herself in an ice-walled castle in the cheerless country of the giants.

    The Story of Siegfried James Baldwin 1883

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