Sentence examples for a dark land from inspiring English sources
After so many long years of hopelessness, they represent a small glimmer of light for the people of a dark land.
Its efforts to expand its telephone and Internet-banking business in America in co-operation with Pat Robertson, a TV evangelist, backfired when Mr Robertson described Scotland as a dark land dominated by homosexuals.
We are often told that in earlier times all cultures had a concept of the afterlife – that "everybody" believed in some form of life after death, be it a journey over a river to a dark land, an eternity of hellfire and torment, a paradise with angels and ambrosia, or a reunion with loved ones.
I picture him, like Taliesin, engaged in a kind of folktale chase, hiding himself in different animal forms: from the Hawk to the Fox to the Bull to the Rat to the Crow, ending with that strange final creature, the Prophet: Crazed by my soul's thirst Through a dark land I staggered.
At one point he called Scotland a "rather dark land" and said, "In Scotland, you can't believe how strong the homosexuals are".
The plight of parents and son ("A Long Night in Dark Land of Autism," Aug. 21) is testimony to the special problems of autism but also the press of business that makes acts of simple kindness unusual in acute care centers.
The past year has, however, seen the publication of a number of ambitious works by established writers.The most imposing is undoubtedly Abd al-Rahman Munif's "Ard al-Sawad" (The dark land), an historical trilogy set in 19th-century Baghdad.
Weepy, a young willow, lives in the dark Land of the Wept, home to the "sad and serious".
Classic Maya funerary ceramics show that this dark land was ruled by a number of gods, including several sinister old men often embellished with jaguar emblems, the jaguar being associated with the night and the nether regions.
If you are a wrathful god, you will create a dark, unfriendly land and a vicious creature.
Two 4x4 vehicles - a dark green Land Rover Discovery and a dark blue Range Rover - and a Vauxhall Vectra were taken away.
