Sentence examples for dreadful land from inspiring English sources

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The historian John Alexander Williams, a retired professor at Appalachian State University, said, "If West Virginia has one enduring theme, it was in the words of those first explorers who described it as a 'pleasing, tho' dreadful' land".

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They've been fighting over that dreadful piece of land forever".

The dreadful jobs report landed among tentative signs of improvement in a few areas of the economy, with recent snippets of data lifting stock markets and sowing cautious hopes that the beginnings of a recovery might be taking shape.

Besides such things as the dreadful roads and expensive land, they will have to cope with the requirement in some states to buy from a central market rather than directly from farmers.

Videos allow Native Americans to address these questions in personal ways, and take stock of the dreadful loss of life, land and culture that came with European incursion into the continent.

Then we saw the sea sucked back, apparently by an earthquake, and many creatures were left stranded on the sand... From the other direction, over the land, a dreadful black cloud was torn by gushing, twisting, flames and great tongues of fire like much-magnified lightning..

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

Thomas has that perspective – how Cromwell tried to clear us off and create a beautiful new land minus this dreadful people called the Irish".

For some European politicians, meanwhile, focusing on dreadful religious-rights violations in distant lands might be a way of distracting attention from awkward questions about relations between religions, new and old, and the state in their own countries.

The island where he lands has an exuberant teenage queen and a dreadful infestation of rats; Captain Cat's feline cargo is suddenly very valuable.

But the prime culprits for industrial decline are the politicisation of land tenure, which makes it hard for firms to get space, and dreadful industrial relations.

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