birthland

In the birthland of socialism, however, it was Gorbachev who wrecked the faith of a nation with glasnost and the Sinatra doctrine.

Belief in Communism, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

But he also didn't need to look far for child soldiers lumbering M16s across their tiny spines like backpacks, as the smells of carnage and desperation still linger in the air of his birthland.

Timothy Cooper: K'naan: Somali Hip Hop Star Raps About War Stories, Crisis At Home 2009

My (simplistic) summaries of these three poets' influences point to my disinterest, as a younger poet, in writing poems reliant on linear narratives--a concern that relates to the history of English in my birthland, the Philippines (I was ten years old when I immigrated to the United States).

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Perhaps the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was like the Yggdrasil of the legends of Pope Hadrian's birthland, with its roots in the floor of the universe, its branches bearing the planets -- and whosoever would eat of its fruit might eat thereof ...

A Case Of Conscience Blish, James 1953

Perhaps the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was like the Yggdrasil of the legends of Pope Hadrian's birthland, with its roots in the floor of the universe, its branches bearing the planets -- and whosoever would eat of its fruit might eat thereof ...

A Case Of Conscience Blish, James 1953

"Just and lawful it may be in our own birthland, Olaf," returned

Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age Robert Leighton

His men thought that this part of England, with its mountains and lakes, was so much like their own birthland in distant Norway, that they showed great unwillingness to leave it.

Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age Robert Leighton

Whereas, if we make war in Norway we fight against those who worship as we ourselves worship, we slay men who speak the same tongue as we speak, whose blood is our own blood, and whose homes are the homes of our own birthland.

Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age Robert Leighton

Or, on the whole, might we not say, Scott, in the new vesture of the nineteenth century, was intrinsically very much the old fighting Borderer of prior centuries; the kind of man Nature did of old make in that birthland of his?

Paras. 25-49 1909

"Do you mean to say that you care nothing for your own birthland?"

The Maids of Paradise 1899