Sentence examples for blessed land from inspiring English sources

In Sinhalese, the name Sri Lanka means "blessed land," and in its physical aspects the country is a tropical paradise, hemmed by palm-shaded beaches and, in its interior, fragrant with the florid vegetation of astonishingly varied landscapes — salt marshes and mountain lakes, mist-shrouded tea plantations, glimmering paddies, and mahogany jungles.

In Sinhalese, the name Sri Lanka means "blessed land," and in its physical aspects the country is a tropical paradise, hemmed by palm-shaded beaches and, in its interior, fragrant with the florid vegetation of astonishingly varied landscapes salt marshes and mountain lakes, mist-shrouded tea plantations, glimmering paddies, and mahogany jungles.

Jacobus Capitein, who was born in Ghana, felt that it was the will of God that made him a slave so that he could be brought to the "blessed" land of Holland.

The Blessed Land across the sea is a retreat for the already immortal, not, except for Frodo, a reward for the afflicted; dead is dead.

In retirement, the terminally sick patriot Control (of whom le Carré observes: "He hated everywhere except Surrey, the Circus and Lord's cricket ground") plays an LP of Jussi Björling singing the ultimate patriotic Swedish song "You Blessed Land" (a little joke of the director's here).

"We came from a blessed land at a blessed time".

Siberia a blessed country of the future, a land of renewal".

He loses his human identity and becomes the alien, leaving behind him the dreadful homeland of Earth for the blessed alien land.

Who Do We Think We Are? Imagining the New Britain Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Allen Lane £18.99, pp274 Buy it at BOL 'There are of late divers blackamoors brought into this realme, of which kinde of people there are already to manie consyderying howe god hath blessed this land with great people of our nation......

IN Indian tradition, the crystalline Finger Lakes of central New York owe their name and beauty to the imprint of the Great Spirit, who blessed the land by laying his hands upon it.

(Think mandarin groves, vineyards to fig trees on blessed volcanic land formerly tended for centuries by the Saint Ana monks).