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Land of promise

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in Bible history, Canaan: by extension, a better country or condition of which one has expectation.

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He sang the creation of the world, the origin of man, and all the history of Genesis; and made many verses on the departure of the children of Israel out of Egypt, and their entering into the land of promise, with many other histories from holy writ.
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
But the tang of the fir summons onward and upward to some 'far-off, divine event'--some spiritual peak of attainment whence we shall see with unfaltering, unclouded vision the spires of some aerial City Beautiful, or the fulfilment of some fair, fadeless land of promise.
The Golden Road by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
The Egypt of one family was the Land of Promise to the family who saw it from a distance, till by residence there it became it turn their Egypt also; and so they changed and changed.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
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