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  • For convenience I'll call them land-like assets, although they include not only land but also other natural resources, building rights attached to land, and monopolies and privileges of all kinds.

    Still on the mountaintop: Economically rational racism 2008

  • Wouldn't be doin 'you fair to let you off somewhere lotus land-like, where they might stick you doin' somethin 'really hard time like clerical.

    The Chronicles of Riddick Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004

  • The first great class is the class that owns and holds land and land-like claims upon the community, from the Throne downward.

    What is Coming? 1906

  • Here again there must be manifestation of the type of life, this time of what we call the reptile type; the tortoise is chosen as the typical creature, and while the tortoise typifies the type to be evolved, reptiles, amphibious creatures of every description, swarm over the earth, becoming more and more land-like in their character as the proportion of land to water increases.

    Avatâras Four lectures delivered at the twenty-fourth anniversary meeting of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, Madras, December, 1899 Annie Wood Besant 1890

  • D.R. Horton will continue to pursue a land-like business model.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2009

  • D.R. Horton will continue to pursue a land-like business model.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2009

  • These are the times, when in his whale-boat the rover softly feels a certain filial, confident, land-like feeling towards the sea; that he regards it as so much flowery earth; and the distant ship revealing only the tops of her masts, seems struggling forward, not through high rolling waves, but through the tall grass of a rolling prairie: as when the western emigrants 'horses only show their erected ears, while their hidden bodies widely wade through the amazing verdure.

    Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

  • These are the times, when in his whale-boat the rover softly feels a certain filial, confident, land-like feeling towards the sea; that he regards it as so much flowery earth; and the distant ship revealing only the tops of her masts, seems struggling forward, not though high rolling waves, but through the tall grass of a rolling prairie: as when the western emigrants 'horses only show their erected ears, while their hidden bodies widely wade through the amazing verdure.

    Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851

  • a certain filial, confident, land-like feeling towards the sea; that he regards it as so much flowery earth; and the distant ship revealing only the tops of her masts, seems struggling forward, not through high rolling waves, but through the tall grass of a rolling prairie: as when the western emigrants 'horses only show their erected ears, while their hidden bodies widely wade through the amazing verdure.

    Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

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