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  • Europe only, but the world; the Pacific States will be the 'vineland' of

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • Labrador will never be a "vineland," a land of corn and wine, or a country where fenced cities will be needed to keep out the milk and honey.

    A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell Wilfred Thomason Grenfell 1902

  • At our feet the river went dancing along in a sweeping blue curve, its left bank clothed with rich vineland, and on its right a belt of forest -- the outskirts of the forest of Chinon -- which stretched, a sea of green, grey, and dim, mysterious purples, to the far-distant Loire.

    Orrain A Romance S. Levett-Yeats

  • The city is full of beauty and repose, and the purple mountains gloriously seem to beckon us on deeper into the vineland.

    The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) 1907

  • It may be doubted if a French or German boy especially wishes that his cornland or vineland were a desert; but many an English boy has wished that his island were a desert island.

    A Short History of England 1905

  • To flash through kinematographic glimpses of vineland and oliveland, and graceful blue mountain shapes; to see strange villages of whose existence you would never know when plodding along by train; to fly from one living reminder of Don Quixote to another, as we were doing to-day (had we not seen the inn where he was knighted?) — Bang!

    The Car of Destiny Armand [Illustrator] Both 1901

  • The city is full of beauty and repose, and the purple mountains gloriously seem to beckon us on deeper into the vineland.

    The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Kenyon, Frederic G 1898

  • From San Gabriel the planting of the vine extended from mission to mission until each owned its patch of vineland.

    Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines Henry Vizetelly 1857

  • Here the worthy monks of the order of St. Benedict had lived in peace and prosperity for several hundred years, carefully cultivating the acres of vineland extending around the abbey, and religiously exacting a tithe of all the other wine pressed in their district.

    Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines Henry Vizetelly 1857

  • That way I can buy a plot of land next to hadrian's wall to grow grapes like my roman ancestors did circa 400 AD and a vacation home in vineland where other ancestors grew grapes in labrador.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science PZ Myers none@example.com 2010

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