Sentence examples for land encountered from inspiring English sources

The Irish Lights Board decided to build a lighthouse on the Fastnet Rock, the southernmost point of Ireland and the first land encountered by many ships crossing the Atlantic Ocean.

The expanding Xhosa, moving southward in the search for land, encountered not only the hunting-and-gathering Khoisan-speaking peoples (many of whose click sounds they adopted) but also Cape colonists moving northward in search of good farmland.

The Count, for instance, has moments that recall the space aliens in the television show "Third Rock From the Sun," a stranger in a strange land encountering emotions and language he doesn't understand.

He then wanders the land encountering giants, anarchists, and members of religious cults.

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY - CAMDEN "No Ordinary Land: Encounters in a Changing Environment," photographs by Virginia Beahan and Laura McPhee.

Born and raised in Southend, I was under the impression that funfairs, chip shops, and confectionery are naturally occurring phenomena when land encounters waves.

Kronman and his father spent weekends deep-sea fishing, and, miles from land, they encountered whales, porpoises, and sharks.

The newcomers took the land they encountered at face value, and at face value it was a find: vast, cheap, temperate, fertile, and, to all appearances, remarkably benign.

Was the secret to Tyrolean identity locked away in this picture of a battle from a distant past, I wondered, or could I find it, instead, in the mountain passes I had crossed, the wine I had sipped in the typical wood-paneled havens known as stuben and the love for the land I encountered in everyone I met?

A directional surface roughness parameterization that modulates the wind speed at a given location based on the types of land cover encountered upwind, a forest canopy sheltering effect, and a spatially varying distribution of Manning's n friction coefficient used for computing the bottom/channel bed friction are also included in the storm surge model.

It would explore any land it encountered; otherwise it would follow the ice edge eastward and attempt to winter at either Banks Island or Prince Patrick Island.