The promised land for the French during their advance had been Moscow, during their retreat it was their native land.
Judaea now and all
the Promised Land, Reduced a province under Roman yoke, Obeys Tiberius, nor is always ruled With temperate sway: oft have they violated The Temple, oft the Law, with foul affronts, Abominations rather, as did once Antiochus.
She remembered her mother's tale of how
the promised land looked to them as their battered wagons and weary oxen dropped down through the early winter snows of the Sierras to the vast and flowering sun-land of California: In fancy, herself a child of nine, she looked down from the snowy heights as her mother must have looked down.
Dantes thought, as they passed so closely to the island whose name was so interesting to him, that he had only to leap into the sea and in half an hour be at
the promised land. But then what could he do without instruments to discover his treasure, without arms to defend himself?
Of all that mighty host, none but the two faithful spies ever lived to set their feet in
the Promised Land. They and their descendants wandered forty years in the desert, and then Moses, the gifted warrior, poet, statesman and philosopher, went up into Pisgah and met his mysterious fate.
There was not one who did not sink upon his knees in heartfelt prayer when they saw the broad valley of Utah bathed in the sunlight beneath them, and learned from the lips of their leader that this was
the promised land, and that these virgin acres were to be theirs for evermore.
I think of Vozdvizhenskoe as
the promised land. You're not sending the horses off yet?"
They hailed it as the poor Israelites hailed the first glimpse of
the promised land, for they flattered themselves that this might be the great plain of the Columbia, and that their painful pilgrimage might be drawing to a close,
Now, whether this passage were miraculous or not, the Israelites, nevertheless, crossed there to reach
the Promised Land, and Pharaoh's army perished precisely on that spot; and I think that excavations made in the middle of the sand would bring to light a large number of arms and instruments of Egyptian origin."
I felt that I had reached
the promised land, and I resolved to let no obstacle prevent me from putting forth the highest effort to fit myself to accomplish the most good in the world.
The magic of the place combined with an overwhelming sense of dangers left behind, and of
the promised land reached at last, seemed to charm us into silence.
For a week or two she went on resolutely enough, though with an occasional sinking of heart, as if she had set out toward
the Promised Land alone, and found it a thirsty, trackless, uncertain journey.