Land of Promise

He wrapped Mongan in his green cloak and took him away to rear and train in the Land of Promise, which is beyond the sea that is at the other side of the grave.

Irish Fairy Tales James Stephens 1916

It is, beyond conception, dear and precious as one of the links that connect the living with the vanished dead, and which keeps them fresh in the memory of those who loved them on earth, and whose dearest joy it is to be able to help them in that shadowy border-land through which, in pain and sorrow, they must journey before entering the Land of Promise, which is the City of God, seated on the everlasting hills.

Purgatory Mrs. James Sadlier 1861

David and Solomon subdued many countries without the confines of the Land of Promise and carried their conquests as far as Euphrates.

A Letter Concerning Toleration 2002

Standish Mountains, and a lovely valley outspread at their foot he named the Land of Promise.

St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878 Various

That the dream is not in vain, there is no positive assurance; but somewhere it is written that Palestine _is_ the Land of Promise.

The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915 Various

But when maturity comes, we shall find the seer filled with enthusiasm, and bearing fruit like the vines of the Land of Promise.

Spontaneous Activity in Education Maria Montessori 1911

The westward tourist rush had slackened, and the train was occupied only by those who had definite business in the Land of Promise, and by that class of wise ones who realize that an Eastern March and April are more to be avoided than the regulation winter months.

The Rules of the Game Stewart Edward White 1909

To these exiles the Back Country of North Carolina, with its cheap and even free tracts lying far from the seat of government, must have seemed not only the Land of Promise but the Land of Last Chance.

Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground Constance Lindsay Skinner 1908

From the beginning the Land of Democracy has been figured as the Land of Promise.

The Promise of American Life Herbert David Croly 1899

This vision of a better future is not, perhaps, as unclouded for the present generation of Americans as it was for certain former generations; but in spite of a more friendly acquaintance with all sorts of obstacles and pitfalls, our country is still figured in the imagination of its citizens as the Land of Promise.

The Promise of American Life Herbert David Croly 1899