Sicily
['sisili]
Definition
(noun.) the largest island in the Mediterranean.
(noun.) the Italian region on the island of Sicily.
Editor: Yvonne--From WordNet
Examples
- Similar risings had already occurred in Sicily. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He liked Sicily as a place of residence better than he liked Germany. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For Carthage could not afford to have a strong power established so close to her as Sicily. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They came by diverse routes from France, Normandy, Flanders, England, Southern Italy, and Sicily, and the will and power of them were the Normans. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- By the terms of this peace, all Sicily, except for the dominions of Hiero of Syracuse, became an estate of the Roman people. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- South Italy and Sicily, however, remained under foreign dominion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Another in Sicily, in 1692-3, by Mr. Hartop, Father Alessandro Burgos, and Vin. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- They were to spend a month in Sicily, Mrs. Fisher observed. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- As we have already told, he would not even relinquish Sicily. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Sicily was handed over to the greedy enterprise of tax-farmers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is recorded that when Pyrrhus left Sicily, he said he left it to be the battleground of Rome and Carthage. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- When the Venetian manufacture was first established, the materials were all brought from Sicily and the Levant. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Rome in those days seemed to the Carthaginians a far less serious threat than the possibility of another Alexander the Great ruling Sicily. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Brazils, Portugal, Sicily, were all overstocked by nearly two years' consumption. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It is possible to piece together something of his court life in Sicily. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Vern