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Example sentences for "another island"

  • We left them behind, and soon picked up another island, but could see only the palms as before, though more of them.

  • In an hour we picked up another island ahead, then another, two little patches of land lying just off the mainland.

  • Then these missionaries went to live on another island, and for years they never saw any civilised people, for the trader took good care that no vessels ever anchored across the lagoon.

  • Raiatea is another island of the Society group, and Helene's home.

  • Seven leagues farther there is another island, which is called Santa Catherina, and from there to the New Isabella, which is the port of Santo Domingo, the distance is 25 leagues.

  • Another island was in sight from the poop, at a distance of eight leagues.

  • In another island, which they assure me is larger than Española, the people have no hair.

  • He saw from there towards the south, another island, which is distant more than 20 leagues.

  • From then, my dear sir, it is what it shall always be; one island throws him to another island.

  • She will go from here to another island to dance.

  • After leaving this they came in sight of another island, full of people, all weeping and lamenting grievously.

  • So they rowed away till they came to another island, on which they saw a man digging in a field; and his spade was all fiery, and the handle thereof, which he held in his hand, was red hot.

  • Then they took to their oars; and after a time they came in view of another island, and four companies of people in it, such as had never been seen before.

  • On the morning of the third day, they came to another island, which was divided into two parts by a wall of brass running across the middle.

  • Farther west is another island, called Buglas, or Negros, because the inhabitants are black.

  • In another island, called Purmerent, they have an hospital, where people are said to recover much faster than at Batavia.

  • At two in the afternoon, when coasting this isle, the summits of high mountains were perceived over it, about ten leagues off, which belonged to another island, as was found next morning.

  • Having thus settled all the above mentioned prices, the inhabitants of the country gave them information that farther on, in another island near, there was a Portuguese man.

  • Seeing this, they agreed to go to another island, where they had had some dealings, to see if they could get some provisions.

  • Finding no convenient place for anchoring on the east side of Dominica, the admiral stood over to another island which he named Marigalante after his own ship.

  • There is another island, I am told, larger than Espanola, the natives of which have no hair.

  • He saw another peak of the mainland to the northwest, which was the peninsula of Paria, and to which Columbus, taking it to be another island, gave the name of Isla de Gracia.

  • He sailed round it; but as there was no harbour, and as another island was in sight to the north, he sailed on in that direction.

  • Lizard; and there is another island or two in sight, seven or eight leagues E.

  • Another island on which they landed was large and bare, with another fortress and a palace.

  • Here they renewed their stock of provisions, and chose a spotless lamb with which to celebrate Easter Sunday on another island, which they saw at a short distance.

  • On one island the seafarers found three magic apples, and each apple gave sufficient food for forty nights; again, on another island, they found the same apples.

  • Off he went to another village or another island, but still the piercing eye of Tangaloa followed him, until he reached the district to which I have referred, and where the dreaded eye was no longer visible.

  • This reminds me of what I once heard from a native of another island.

  • The ships continued their course about the island, the weather not altogether favorable; but on October 19 they veered away to another island to the west of Fernandina, which Columbus named Isabella, after his Queen.

  • He now coasted it to find a better opening to the north, for he had supposed this slender peninsula to be another island.

  • Columbus could find no good anchorage at Dominica, and leaving one vessel to continue the search, he passed on to another island, which he named from his ship, Marigalante.

  • The next morning Columbus was attracted by the lofty volcanic peak of another island, and, sailing up to it, he could see cascades on the sides of this eminence.

  • As Chingatok had predicted, on the sixth day from Home-in-sight Island the party came to another island, where the great pack abruptly terminated.

  • At no great distance from this island to the west-south-west, at thirty-six leagues off, is another island of Gentiles which has a Gentile king over it.

  • The cloves grow in another island which is smaller, and is called Tidory, the tree on which it grows is like the box or buxo.

  • With these words she committed the little ark with the child into the sea, and the waters swelling with the tide carried it in the same night to the shore of another Island whereof we have just made mention.

  • The tide carries him to another Island, where he is found by a roe, that takes pity on him, nurses him like a mother, and watches over his every movement with tender affection.

  • Euro Hayy is driven by the tide to another Island.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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