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and take with thee This curse I leave thee as my last bequest:-- Never to win by arms thy native land, No, nor return to Argos in the Vale, But by a kinsman's hand to die and slay Him who expelled thee.
Thus John Endicott was a man of multifarious business, and had no time to look back regretfully to his native land. He felt himself fit for the New World and for the work that he had to do, and set himself resolutely to accomplish it.
With many variations, suggested by the nature of his building materials, diversity of climate, and a different mode of social life, Governor Bellingham had planned his new habitation after the residences of gentlemen of fair estate in his native land. Here, then, was a wide and reasonably lofty hall, extending through the whole depth of the house, and forming a medium of general communication, more or less directly, with all the other apartments.
When the persecuted companions of Robinson, exiles from their native land, anxiously sued for the privilege of removing a thousand leagues more distant to an untried soil, a rigorous climate, and a savage wilderness, for the sake of reconciling their sense of religious duty with their affections for their country, few, perhaps none of them, formed a conception of what would be, within two centuries, the result of their undertaking.
Yet, while so deeply impressed with the sense of religious obligation, they felt, in all its energy, the force of that tender tie which binds the heart of every virtuous man to his native land. It was to renew that connection with their country which had been severed by their compulsory expatriation, that they resolved to face all the hazards of a perilous navigation and all the labors of a toilsome distant settlement.
Never could I return to my native land. To the end of my days I must remain in exile.
Next came the wide, sandy desert separating the rest of the world from the Land of Oz, and before noon they saw the dome-shaped houses that proved they were once more within the borders of their native land.
Few travellers who had penetrated to these regions had ever again seen their native land. Moreover, could he trust to the worship of which he saw himself the object?
Grimaud tendered twenty guineas to the captain, and at nine o'clock in the morning, having a fair wind, our Frenchmen set foot on their native land.
It was little more than a half-civilized community, and the chances were that they would drag Akut and him forth in the morning and hang them both to the nearest tree--he had read of such things being done in America, and Africa was worse even and wilder than the great West of his mother's native land. Yes, they would both be hanged in the morning!
That kind of police briskness rather more reminds me of my native land than German journalism does.
Anita Mehsud, who hails from the tribal district of South Waziristan, entered the provincial legislature, committed to serving the people of her native land.
Uggah, who is also state modernisation of agriculture, native land and regional development minister, will also pay courtesy calls on the New Zealand Minister of Primary Industries Damien O'Connor and the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Winston Raymond today.
figure By BRIAN OKINDA Members of the Ogiek community living in the Maasai Mau water catchment area have faulted the mode of their eviction, saying that, they, being forest conservers, are now unfairly targeted alongside the real destroyers of the forests.The communitys members residing in the Maasai Mau Trust land, which they say is their native land according to the provisions of Section 70 of the Native Land Ordinance of 1938, say they have inhabited the area since 1933.They say the government has been inhumanely evicting them from their native land without resettling them elsewhere or offering compensation.