Sentence examples for land of flat from inspiring English sources

Leif's expedition came first to an icy barren land that he called Helluland ("Land of Flat Rocks"); sailing southward, they encountered a flat wooded land, which Leif named Markland ("Land of Forests").

He named the new areas according to their qualities: Helluland ("Land of Flat Rocks"), the Frobisher Bay area in the north (or possibly Cape Chidley on the northern tip of Labrador); Markland ("Land of Forests"), most likely the central coast of Labrador; and, farthest south, Vinland, possibly the area surrounding the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.

Long before Australia was a land of flat whites and the world's most overzealous health 'n' safety culture, he was the gauche foreign carpetbagger who swooped in on The Times, the Establishment's crown jewel, and brutally sacked all the venerable old windbags who'd carved out years of long-luncheons editing page 53 of the Society section.

It is a land of flats so broken that the children who live in them are hospitalised.

The few scarce acres of flat land next to a stream on the valley floor were reserved until recently for garden-size plots of rice, corn and vegetables.

OUTDOOR SPACE: The house sits on 10.5 acres of flat land, with expansive views of Swan Mountain, Glacier National Park and Great Bear Wilderness.

Broken trailers and a hot tub rejiggered to irrigate a garden sit in a clearing, the few acres of flat land where a handful of people live in houses in disrepair.

On it rests the small village of Dholera – a cluster of houses with thatched roofs, muddy roads, and acres of flat, fertile land surrounding them.

Increasingly, the lack of flat land for industrial and commercial expansion also has hindered development.

A summer spent working at "Greenland's Pompeii" inspired one Canadian archaeologist to take a second look at Canadian collections of native artifacts gathered from Labrador and Baffin Island, a treeless Canadian Arctic region that Viking sagas call "Helluland," or the land of the flat stones.

In the land of cold, flat winter, to find a warm, vibrant flavor-packed gem of a restaurant was a total delight.