Sentence examples for marvellous land from inspiring English sources
Edward Wyke-Smith's The Marvellous Land of Snergs, with its "table-high" title characters, strongly influenced the incidents, themes, and depiction of Bilbo's race in The Hobbit.
Hundreds of Humboldt's contemporaries, including Charles Darwin, were encouraged by him to come and visit the strange and marvellous lands he described.
They left me with the sense that I was standing on a cliff, staring out to sea, hearing marvellous tales of lands beyond the horizon and wondering if they were, after all, just fairy tales or whether the intensity with which the tales were told was evidence that the teller had indeed seen a barely imagined kingdom.
Jerusalem, however, is a walloping grand play about land, identity, the death of magic and the decay of community, with a marvellous central role.
Both works feature a distant and exotic land where the marvellous is present by means of metamorphoses, and viewed from the characters' perspective.
10.35pm BST TIger saves his par with a marvellous lob over the ridge midway up the green, his ball landing pin high, four feet away.
A few years, £20 million and a planning battle later, that land is now occupied by the architectural curve and dip of the marvellous Gloucester Motorway Services.
Marvellous, marvellous, absolutely splendid.
