Sentence examples for lands lying from inspiring English sources

The canal separates the African continent from Asia, and it provides the shortest maritime route between Europe and the lands lying around the Indian and western Pacific oceans.

Lands lying at high elevations can, of course, be lands of low relief, but on the European continent relief tends to become more rugged as elevation increases.

In 1783 lands lying west of Pennsylvania, north of the Ohio River, east of the Mississippi River, and south of the Great Lakes were ceded to the United States by the Peace of Paris treaties, which ended the American Revolution.

The victors gave the name Transkei to the Xhosa lands lying east of the Great Kei River; the lands between the Great Fish and Great Kei rivers they called Ciskei.

THE lands lying between the Baltic and the Black Sea have had many names: the "bloodlands" of the second world war, the "captive nations" of the cold war, the "ex-communist" countries of the post-Soviet era and, for many, the "new members" of the European Union.

In 1493, in the wake of Christopher Columbus' epochal discoveries, and at the request of Ferdinand and Isabella, Alexander issued a bull granting Spain the exclusive right to explore the seas and claim all New World lands lying west of a north-south line 100 leagues (about 320 miles) west of the Cape Verde Islands.

The centre of gravity shifted to eastern Saxony, where the Liudolfing lands lay.

"Unless — " yelped the Ranger, "I mean, unless your ancestral lands lie to the west.

The school, the mosque, the cemetery and the village lands lie to the south.

For decades vast lands lay vacant there waiting for business and residential development.

Some of this state's most prized game lands lie atop the Marcellus Shale, a vast reserve of natural gas.