Meaning of landish | Babel Free

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Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the land

Examples

“[…] — a ferret, for example, with its fierce eyes plucked from the reefs of coral seas, and its affinity, albeit a landish affinity, with the bears of the polar spaces.”

“These chapters are chapter 24 — "the Advocate," the chapter that marks the transition from the "landish" part of the novel to its sea part, and the famous chapter 32, "Cetology."”

“So it turns out, she was a landish woman.”

“It was already stated that any work of art should consider the haunting peril, that is lurking in a bushy ambush, threatening to metamorphose worthy, touching emotionality (produced by the work of art; poetry in this case) into a landish, kitschy, vulgar sentimentality.”

““Not a name men would follow,” she said to me once. “A landish name.””

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