What is "landbound"

Usage examples of "landbound".

The blue pallor of the drakes was more evident now, as was the fact that their armor was smoother, less scaled than their landbound cousins.

Its huge tail makes it clumsy but nevertheless none of the landbound venture close.

Otei could not have been more sympathetic or attempted to be more helpful, remarking over and over how much safer and more predictable was a landbound life, even that of a professional warrior, than one spent mostly aboard a frail craft always at the mercy of the fearsome vagaries of the cruel sea.

The humans who came its way, capsized fishermen or ritual offerings provided by the landbound worshippers of the Sea-Our-Mother, were easy prey.

I saved you for was to walk Skaith perpetually like some landbound Flying Dutchman, I might better have left you with the Lords Protector, where at least your captivity was comfortable.

Earth, the region was landbound, but there is no such thing in the System.

In these tall Cretaceous skies, fueled by the oxygen-rich air, a pyramid of predators had erected itself, with all the savagery of its landbound analogues.

But of course, contemplating a voyage of such length, the mere fact that she floated and seemed sound could not be enough, so I undertook several trial voyages of lesser and greater distances, each of them teaching and reteaching me things which I had forgotten over the years and centuries I had been almost landbound.

Now tell me, what interest does a marine biologist have in the work of a landbound bonedigger?

He was aware of its gradual evolution from minor landbound forms struggling to come even with the large amphibs, finally returning entirely to the sea-and then a memory gap broken only by glimpses of the larger sizes, some with lengthening necks and others with shortening necks, until this line attained its present configuration: eight full wingspans from snout to tail, the neck making up half of that.

He was aware of its gradual evolution from minor landbound forms struggling to come even with the large amphibs, finally returning entirely to the sea—and then a memory gap broken only by glimpses of the larger sizes, some with lengthening necks and others with shortening necks, until this line attained its present configuration: eight full wingspans from snout to tail, the neck making up half of that.

There was also Ralph Hiltch sitting snugly over in the Kulu Embassy, like a landbound octopus with its tentacles plugged into damn near every administration office, siphoning out information.

But while a good landbound horse could be had for under a thousand dollars, and a sea horse for perhaps five thousand, airhorses began at ten thousand and required special maintenance, since no ordinary paddock could hold them.