God's country

Example Sentences

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"The 'God's country' of it all is strange because it's like, what are you trying to say? You trying to say that we are not in God's country?" he said.

From Salon • Apr. 1, 2025

“This is a clay dirt road way out in the middle of what we call God’s country on the way to a nice little fishing lake.”

From Seattle Times • Jul. 20, 2020

Nearly 200 miles from where Route 33 started, this is also God’s country.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2020

“It’s God’s country, and it gives us peace. And that’s how I like to live, in peace.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2015

Here, confronting a great loneliness, he was feeling the contrast between the land, whose children called it God's country, and his own meagre hills, where the creeks bore such names as Pestilence and Hell-fer-sartain.

From The Tempering by Buck, Charles Neville