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No-man's-land   Listen
noun
No-man's-land, No-man's land  n.  
1.
(Naut.) A space amidships used to keep blocks, ropes, etc.; a space on a ship belonging to no one in particular to care for.
2.
An unoccupied area between opposing armies.
3.
Hence: (Fig.): An unclaimed space or time. "That no-man's land of twilight."





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"No-man's-land" Quotes from Famous Books



... may be called the story of the Christmas truce and the German captain. In the lull which fell on the fighting at the time of the first Christmas of the War, a British officer was disquieted to notice that his men were fraternizing with the Germans, who were standing about with them in No-man's land, laughing and talking. He went out to them at once, to bring them back to their own trenches. When he came up to his men, he met a German captain who had arrived on the same errand. The two officers, British and German, fell ...
— England and the War • Walter Raleigh
... the Nazarene no thigh of Thor, To play on partial fields the puppet king Bearing the battle down with bloody hand. Serene he towers above the gods of war, A naked man where shells go thundering— The great unchallenged Lord of No-Man's Land. ...
— Miscellany of Poetry - 1919 • Various
... could find him. The convict settlement at Sequah is thirty miles from here; the country between is wild and tangled enough, and the country beyond, where he will surely have the sense to go, is a perfect no-man's land tumbling away to the prairies. He may be in any hole ...
— The Wisdom of Father Brown • G. K. Chesterton
... Mas'r Harry; if you will, you will. But if we get lost, and then find ourselves right away down in no-man's land, don't you go and say it's ...
— The Golden Magnet • George Manville Fenn
... moment at which to be taken into partnership for the carrying forward of the universe. Half the globe, as we are intimate with it to-day, was then unknown, and North-West Australia was a no-man's land, saving to the Aborigines. It was believed by geographers that a big river, artery to an immense area of Australia, must here drain into the sea. A Government expedition, as head of which Sir George Grey was selected, should determine ...
— The Romance of a Pro-Consul - Being The Personal Life And Memoirs Of The Right Hon. Sir - George Grey, K.C.B. • James Milne
... and the cities of Augustowo and Suwalki which the Germans, after their successful offensive, used as bases for their operations. A strip of country including these forests, and running parallel to the Niemen was a sort of no-man's land in the spring of 1915. Movements of troops in the heavily wooded country were difficult to observe, and the conditions lent themselves to surprise attacks. This resulted in a warfare of alternate thrusts ...
— The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of VIII) - History of the European War from Official Sources • Various


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