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Example sentences for "great island"

  • Outside of the oyster grants, quahaugs are found south of Great Island, north of Billingsgate Island on the west side of the harbor, on Lieutenant's Island bar and at the mouth of Blackfish Creek.

  • Wellfleet flats extend from Duck Creek to Herring River and from Herring River along the shores of Great Island for a distance of 4½ miles, and cover an area of 400 acres.

  • It would therefore have been illogical of Pytheas if he had not conceived Thule as a great island, as in fact it was spoken of later.

  • Other some fastened and mored Anker vpon a great Island of yce, and roade vnder the Lee thereof, supposing to be better guarded thereby from the outragious winds, and the danger of the lesser fleeting yce.

  • HOW THE WORLD WAS MADE The earth is a great island floating in a sea of water, and suspended at each of the four cardinal points by a cord hanging down from the sky vault, which is of solid rock.

  • The eastern point of Great Island, now known as New Castle, had been the spot selected.

  • The boat swung past the usual landing on Great Island and on down the river.

  • As we went along we obtained an imposing view to the north of an immense plateau in three terraces, the lower one appearing like the sea--it was so blue--with the brilliant red upper portion rising out of it like a great island.

  • The indented beach, not unlike a giant double-comb, was at the beginning of a great island which I named James Dewar Island, in honour of the great discoverer of liquid air.

  • The beach on which we had landed for lunch was at the southern end of a great island, 5,700 m.

  • We were now slowly forging past Newcastle, or Great Island.

  • There are many old houses on Great Island.

  • On the south of Great Island is another entrance called Little Harbor, with shallow water and sandy bottom; its communication with the main river is now valueless, and little used except by fishing-craft of small tonnage.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great addition; great advance; great ascetic; great band; great business; great confusion; great country; great deale; great disadvantage; great diversity; great earthquake; great heap; great learning; great nation; great necessity; great political; great powers; great rage; great reason; great share; great tendency; great writer; greater detail; greater distance; greatest pleasure; greatly distinguished