But she, on the first alarm, had, together with her women, sprung up to the surface of the sea, and escaped to a desert island.
We sailed with the first fair wind, and after a long navigation the first place we touched at was a desert island, where we found an egg of a roe, equal in size to that I formerly mentioned.
For my own part I am sanguine in my hopes, and cannot believe that prince Agib will seek for me in a place under ground, in the midst of a desert island.
And who are all these people you love so well, Mr. Wallingford, that their presence would make a desert island pleasant?
But my ideas of a desert island isn't Palm Beach with commercial photographers snapping at whoever sits down in the sand!
You talk of a desert island, and swimming, and seaweed, Greg!
What would he not have sacrificed at the prospect of being cast with Nib upon a desert island?
What wur he doin' a-casting hissen on a desert island?
He wur cast upon a desert island, an' had na owt else to wear.
She had carried Mr. Evans away to a desert island.
In the one boat-load of people which North Wind drove off to a desert island, was Mr. Evans.
Now he found that it would have been better to have been poor and stayed at home to marry Miss Coleman than to be ship-wrecked and have to live on a desert island because he longed so to be rich.
The chances are that it may be a desert island, and one rarely or never visited by ships.
We did not leave the pirate ship with any regret, though few people would desire to be landed on a desert island in the middle of the Pacific.
First we remark that a man living on a desert island needs no books at all.
Reading books is an idle occupation unless you make your reading profitable to other human beings, and that you cannot do on a desert island.
Clover has asked this startling question: "If you were bound for a desert island, and could take with you only ten books, which ten books would you select?
The trouble with many readers is this: They read as though they WERE on a desert island.
Are you sure, Captain Spike, it is not a desert island?
The boat had been going and coming for some time, and the distance being short, the "desert island" was soon a desert no longer.
But what has all this to do with being wrecked on a desert island?
Just fancy, professor, if the ship were wrecked and you and I were cast away on a desert island, with only monkeys, snakes, and possibly savages for neighbors!
It contained books--quite a large number of books--selected by Roland with the view of suiting the case of one who dwells upon a desert island.
She was nothing but a child--and an ignorant farmer-girl living in a desert island.
A man of the world does not expect to be caught in ignorance by the solitary inhabitant of a desert island.
What young man, besides, sallying forth upon a simple holiday, looks to find himself upon a desert island with no other companion than a trustful and admiring maiden of fifteen?
Most of it on a desert island," put in Mr. Wotton, pathetically.
Specially on a desert island," said Mr. Wotton, rapidly.
Why do they call so lovely a spot as this a desert island, I wonder?
Hikes and camping and all that make me tired; I'd like to be on a desert island, that's what I'd like to do.
This was certainly an improvement over the old, out-of-date method of desert island exploration.
Some of his followers, it was thought, might have escaped from the wreck, and might be confined on a desert islandor thrown upon some savage coast.
He sent out a numerous fleet and a powerful army; but a violent storm dispersed and wrecked the ships, and thirty thousand men were thrown upon a desert island a few miles from Cipango.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "desert island" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
