Columbus managed his landfalls with a fine dramatic sense as though they were conjuring tricks; and indeed they must have seemed like conjuring tricks, except that they were almost always successful.
"Christopher Columbus, Complete"
Filson Young
Everything seemed to expand; I was coming out of the frequent landfalls, the neighborly intimacies and neighborly conflicts of the Mediterranean into something remoter; into larger seas and greater lands, rarer communications and a vaster future....
"The Passionate Friends"
Herbert George Wells
The second is, that the improvements in the art of navigation no longer render it so necessary to make well-known landfalls during transit.
"Some Principles of Maritime Strategy"
Julian Stafford Corbett