Islands

Examples

• Look at those big, isolated clumps of building rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-colored sea. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The flora of the Galapagos Islands prove d equally distinctive. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The mainlands or the islands? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Probably the most interesting of them all is the great Robber-crab, which is found on certain islands of the Pacific. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• If, then, it varied, natural selection would probably favour different varieties in the different islands. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• There I was told the island belonged to Turkey, as the Greek tributary islands only extend as far down as Santorin. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• At the Cape Verde Islands he made some interesting observations of a white calcareous stratum which ran for miles along the coast at a height of a) bout forty-five feet above the water. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Artificial floating islands have been formed by placing lake mud on rafts of wicker-work covered with reeds. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The women and non-combatants were carried to Salamis and various adjacent islands. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Even in the islands where they have settlements, they have very much reduced, it is said, the number of those trees. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In scattered islands and in Papua and New Guinea we find another series of black and brownish peoples of a more lowly type with frizzy hair. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Some mutton was shipped to me from the Falkland Islands at the beginning of last August; a piece of it is uncooked on the table. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Little islands rose here and there to support the strange and colourless vegetation of this strange world. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Her population was chiefly a Mongolian population, with some very interesting white people of a Nordic type, the Hairy Ainu, in the northern islands. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Nay, let it wander among the flowery islands, Where I can see my home and the girl who mourns me. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The islands of Guernsey and Jersey, without any means of resisting the authority of parliament, are more lightly taxed than any part of Great Britain. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The islands belong to Portugal, and everything in Fayal has Portuguese characteristics about it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The Vesuvius of today is a very poor affair compared to the mighty volcano of Kilauea, in the Sandwich Islands, but I am glad I visited it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Different varieties, if not species, characterize the different islands. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• My intention was to reach, if possible, one of those islands which I had reason to believe lay to the north-east of Van Diemen's Land. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Sometimes such islands are large enough to serve as pasture grounds. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The islands were dark and half revealed, the reeds were dark also, only some of them had a little frail fire of reflection. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• But seals would not find on oceanic islands the conditions favourable to their gradual reconversion into a terrestrial form. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Her father was a German Jew--a slave-owner they say--connected with the Cannibal Islands in some way or other. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• They could get away to islands; no chief nor king could pursue a boat or ship with any certainty; every captain was a king. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The islands of Oceania were uninhabited. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• What Causes Floating Islands? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• On the Keeling or Cocos Islands the chief vegetable production is the cocoanut. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The entirely free Venetian republic ruled an empire of dependent islands and trading ports, rather after the fashion of the Athenian republic. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The earth is scorched with fire; the sea becomes as the blood of a dead man; the islands flee away; the mountains are not found. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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