land

Related to land: Land of Nod, Land for sale, Land Rover
See:
  • (for) land('s) sake(s) (alive)
  • a blight on the land
  • a/the land of milk and honey
  • be doing a land-office business
  • be in cloud-cuckoo land
  • be in the Land of Nod
  • be in the land of the living
  • blight on the land
  • Cloud Cuckoo Land
  • cloud-cuckoo land
  • do a land-office business
  • fall on (one's) feet
  • fall on one's feet
  • fall/land on your feet
  • fat of the land
  • fat of the land, the
  • find out how the land lies
  • go on to a better land
  • how the land lies
  • in the Land of Nod
  • in the land of the living
  • jump all over someone
  • la-la land
  • la-la land, in
  • land (someone) one
  • land (something)
  • land a blow
  • land a blow, punch, etc.
  • land a job
  • land a punch
  • land at
  • land in
  • land in (one's) lap
  • land in on
  • land in your lap
  • Land o' Goshen!
  • land of milk and honey
  • land of milk and honey, the
  • land of Nod
  • land of plenty
  • land on
  • land on (one's) feet
  • land on both feet
  • land on your feet
  • land pirate
  • Land sakes!
  • land so poor it wouldn't even raise a fuss
  • land so poor you couldn't raise a fuss on it
  • land up
  • land up (some place)
  • land up at (some place)
  • land up in (something)
  • land up somehow or somewhere
  • land up with (someone or something)
  • land upon
  • landline
  • land-office business
  • land-office business, a
  • land-poor
  • lay of the land
  • lay of the land, the
  • lay/lie of the land, the
  • live in cloud-cuckoo land
  • live off the fat of the land
  • live off the land
  • live off/on the fat of the land
  • never fight a land war in Asia
  • never never land
  • never start a land war in Asia
  • never-never land
  • no man's land
  • on (the) land
  • on land
  • promised land, the
  • see how the land lies
  • see, etc. how the land lies
  • spy out the land
  • the fat of the land
  • the land of milk and honey
  • the Land of Nod
  • The Land of Opportunity
  • the land of the living
  • the lay of the land
  • the lie of the land
  • the promised land
References in classic literature
Further recognition will follow in due course; but essentially a Landfall, good or bad, is made and done with at the first cry of "Land ho!" The Departure is distinctly a ceremony of navigation.
The taking of Departure, if not the last sight of the land, is, perhaps, the last professional recognition of the land on the part of a sailor.
Mirror of the Sea
That means more houses and more land, and that means me, for I'll be there to sell them the land.
Do you want to land your tea and silk from Asia and ship it straight East?
Burning Daylight
The reef runs at a greater or less distance from the included land; in the Society archipelago generally from one to three or four miles; but at Hogoleu the reef is 20 miles on the southern side, and 14 miles on the opposite or northern side, from the included islands.
The geographer Balbi has well remarked, that an encircled island is an atoll with high land rising out of its lagoon; remove the land from within, and a perfect atoll is left.
The Voyage of the Beagle
"You don't call that dinky gardening farming," he objected, pointing to a piece of land barely the size of an acre, which they were passing.
The Valley of the Moon
In which scroll were written in ancient Hebrew, and in ancient Greek, and in good Latin of the School, and in Spanish, these words: 'Land ye not, none of you.
English Literature For Boys And Girls
And that was the way Dorothy heard that the Historian wanted to speak with her, and there was a Shaggy Man in the Land of Oz who knew how to telegraph a wireless reply.
The Patchwork Girl of Oz
Ned Land was about forty years of age; he was a tall man
20000 Leagues Under The Sea
"In the first place," said the General, "we cannot march across the deadly desert to the Land of Oz.
The Emerald City of Oz
Believing, from reasons before alluded to, that our continents have long remained in nearly the same relative position, though subjected to large, but partial oscillations of level, I am strongly inclined to extend the above view, and to infer that during some earlier and still warmer period, such as the older Pliocene period, a large number of the same plants and animals inhabited the almost continuous circumpolar land; and that these plants and animals, both in the Old and New Worlds, began slowly to migrate southwards as the climate became less warm, long before the commencement of the Glacial period.
The Origin of Species
So both those who knew and those who did not know deceived themselves, and pushed on to Smolensk as to a promised land.
War and Peace
As soon as the soldiers had all gone home, Chee-Chee brought the Doctor and his animals out of the hiding-place and they set off for the Land of the Monkeys.
Story of Doctor Dolittle
I looked with sympathetic awe and fearfulness upon the man, who in mid-winter just landed from a four years' dangerous voyage, could so unrestingly push off again for still another tempestuous term.
Moby Dick I LXVII