The roofed galleries, eight feet wide, attached to each story on the front, present promenades and views unrivaled in the city looking towards Levi and the Island of Orleans.
Island of Orleans, occupied by Americans; Hurons remove to; Hurons massacred at; name changed.
There, now, they drop down the stream for a long day's cruise round the Island of Orleans.
Mr. Finlay died at the Island of Madeira, whether he had gone for his health, about the year 1831.
It is astonishing to reflect for a moment, to how small, and, as to size, comparatively insignificant an island in the Atlantic ocean this gigantic territory was once subject.
He had been employed in Prince Edward Island and Western Canada on public surveys.
Cradled in the arms of the St. Lawrence, and basking in the bright rays of the morning sun, the island and its sister group looked like a second Eden just emerged from the waters of chaos.
This island was purchased by the Imperial authorities for military purposes about 1815.
If we were both on a desert islandwithout a cent we could be happy together, and if we had a million apiece and didn't love each other we would be miserable.
Coffee was served in the bar-room, and all filed out to drink it, every man full to his eyelids and saturated with a contentment that only Long Island blue-fish and Fulton Market steak with the necessary liquids and solids could produce.
The firing from Staten Island called out the inhabitants on the Jersey coast.
On Manhattan Islandwere braves--for freedom toiling day and night; building earthwork, redoubt and battery with never a luxury from morning to morning, except the luxury of fighting for Liberty.
They made faithful promises, and, in the glorious twilight of the evening, rowed David Bushnell across the beautiful stretch of Sound that to-day separates Charles Island from the comely old town of Milford.
And they do beware by turning and rowing with all speed for the island whence they came.
In the seine-house on Poverty Island the brothers had stored provisions for a cruise of several days.
During this time the enemy had got possession of a portion of Long Island, and of Governor's Island in the harbor--thus preventing the approach to New York by the East River.
The brave soldiers on the parapet at Governor's Island quake with fear.
If there were only another Faulkner's Island to flee to," said Mr. Bushnell, as morning drew near.
When the appalling news of the battle of Long Island reached David Bushnell, he resolved, cost what it might of danger to himself, or hazard to the Turtle, to get it to New York with all speed.
Under the orders of General Washington, supported by the approval of the Provincial Congress in session at White Plains, the live stock was being driven from the island, and ferried across Staten Island Sound to New Jersey.
The Chateau d'If, far more than the island of Monte Cristo itself, is the locale which is mostly recalled with regard to the romance of "Monte Cristo.
Not a line, not a word, is misplaced in the chapters in which Dumas treats of Dantes' incarceration in his island prison.
The island was familiar to the crew of La Jeune Amelie--it was one of her halting-places.
Of the island of Monte Cristo itself, Dumas' description is equally gratifying.
About five o'clock in the evening the island was quite distinct, and everything on it was plainly perceptible, owing to that clearness of the atmosphere which is peculiar to the light which the rays of the sun cast at its setting.
The American stations are located at Woods' Holl and at Cold Spring Harbor, on opposite coasts of Long Island Sound.
They formed as common a method of raising revenue in theisland realm of King George II.
Eugene Dubois, discovered in the year 1891 in the tertiary strata of the island of Java.
These are his words:-- “We are not at liberty to consider theisland in any other light than as part of the dominions of the French Republic.
Yes; you see he found the poor chap with a broken leg on an island in the swamp.
Haven't I spent nearly every evening in retailing old stories of our doings over on that blessed island of Cuba, when we were with the insurrectos and fighting against the power of Spain?
An islandin the Ægean Sea, off the coast of Thrace.
This was a country of Asia Minor upon the sea-coast, opposite to the island of Rhodes.
Nausistrata, the wife of Chremes, is a wealthy woman, possessed of large estates in the island of Lemnos.
Some genius in the capital of the department has discovered that certain ancient usages of the island are not in keeping with some article of the code, and a peaceable and well-to-do population has been reduced to revolt and beggary.
Up to the year 1865 I had never formed any other idea of the island of Chios except that embodied in the phrase of Fénelon: "The island of Chios, happy as the country of Homer.
I saw the last traces of it some thirty years ago in the beautiful little island of Bréhat, with its patriarchal ways which carried one back to the time of the Pheacians.
The two brothers had each an island of equal size and value left them by their father, but the sea daily added to the island of the younger brother, and encroached on that belonging to Bracidas.
AODH, last of the Culdees, or primitive clergy of Io'na, anisland south of Staffa.
Ammon hid his mistress in the island Nysa (in Africa), in order to elude the vigilance and jealousy of his wife Rhea.
Their father at death left each of his sons an island of equal size and value, but the sea daily encroached on that of the elder brother and added to the island of Amidas.
ARGON AND RURO, the two sons of Annir, king of Inis-thona, an island of Scandinavia.
If there is any truth at all in the legend, the island must be ascribed to the Fata Morgana.
Their island is already crowded with people, the large towns are numerous and are very large.
It is an illustration of moral power that, little island as that of Great Britain is, its power is the great power of the world.
Bond, which I did by the first mail that left the island after the discovery.
The three of us remained thus for ten minutes, an unregarded island in the sea of people that surged round the derailed coaches.
Thousands actually starved; while the beautiful island of Prinkipo, with its summer palaces and villas, swarmed with oily, scoundrelly, enormously wealthy Levantine vulgarians.
From the far side of our island came the metallic strains of a gramophone, made less blatant by the soft atmosphere of the river.
Our expectation of finding the north-west extremity of the island disengaged from ice by the action of the currents was--at all events for this season--evidently doomed to disappointment.
When, from some unhappy incompatibility of temper, a married couple live so miserably together as to render life insupportable, it is competent for them to apply to the Danish Governor of the island for a divorce.
My only hope was that, at all events, the southern extremity of the island might be disengaged; for I was very anxious to land, in order to examine some coal-beds which are said to exist in the upper strata of the sandstone formation.
The islandupon which we had so nearly run WAS Roost.
Roost--a little rocky island that lies about twenty miles to the southward of the Loffoden Islands.
Our plan at present, after visiting the hot springs, is to return to Reykjavik, and stretch right across the middle of the island to the north coast--scarcely ever visited by strangers.
Rendova Island and smaller islands nearby, across Blanche Channel to the south of New Georgia, were to be occupied next and used as supply bases and also as artillery positions for delivering supporting fire for the main attack on Munda.
When the Japanese forces on New Georgia Islandwere overrun, the battalion would then move as a whole or in part to Munda to defend the field when Allied air units moved in and began operating.
Marine Corps (Ret) Operation Watchtower was the codename assigned by the Joint Chiefs of Staff for the reduction of the Japanese stronghold at Rabaul, on the easternmost tip of New Britain Island in the Bismarck Archipelago.
In early November, Battery A moved to Nusalavata Island and Battery B to Roviana Island where the 155mm guns covered Munda Bar and the eastern approach to Blanche Channel respectively.
From 16 through 19 August, Japanese artillery on Baanga Island shelled Munda Airfield and Kindu Point causing several casualties and some minor damage.
On 22 November, the 9th Defense Battalion was attached to VI Corps Island Command for occupation duties.
As the enemy planes came in, several light antiaircraft guns opened fire and a few seconds later Captain Tracy’s E Battery on Kokorana Island began firing.
Samson is the kind Aristaeos who delivers the islandof Keos from the lion,[809] the protector of bees and hives of honey, which is the most abundant when the sun is in the Lion.
See the memorial poems in this volume, The Island of Skyros, by John Masefield; and Rupert Brooke, by Moray Dalton.
He died in the Aegean, on April 23, and lies buried in the island of Skyros.
Two ships, said Plum Island at the east end of Long Island Sound, had engaged the defenses at long range without effect.
The crowds in the cities, dense even at that early hour of the morning, read on the bulletin boards: “Enemy effected a landing during the night on Rhode Island between Narragansett Bay and Long Island Sound.
There was no breeze, except for a languorous breathing from the distant [Illustration: “There were ships moving toward the Long Island Coast as if to threaten New York.
These scarlet buoys outlined an area of safety that was shaped somewhat like a pentagon with its apex at Block Island and its base on the Rhode Island coast between Watch Hill and Point Judith.
Under the two fliers in the machine lay the eastern entrance of Long Island Sound--the watergate to New York, with half-open jaws whose fangs were the guns of Fisher’s Island on the north and Plum Island on the south.
Twenty-seven hundred sailors, marines and soldiers were holding the Rhode Island coast.
Therefore it is no defect in the construction of the Long Island entrance defenses that it is possible to bombard coast places near them.
He held every port on the northern shore of Long Island Sound.
Some were there who could boast that their ancestors had crept into Long Island Sound in little sloops, and even in rowing boats, to harry tall King’s ships.
The coasts of New Jersey and Long Island suddenly had become as quiet again as if there were no enemy within three thousand miles.
On all the shrouded, swift tide-ways that led into Long Island Sound there was nothing.
Sullivan's Island is at the entrance of Charleston harbor, just east of Charleston, South Carolina.
The winters in the latitude of Sullivan's Islandare seldom very severe, and in the fall of the year it is a rare event indeed when a fire is considered necessary.
Of the visitors who afterward came to the island it is best not to speak, for fear of revealing too much of the secret of the story in advance.
The scenes of this story are laid in the eastern part of Massachusetts, in Rhode Island, and along Long Island Sound.
The distance across the ice was about seven miles, with an island about half-way.
You may imagine, then, that it was interesting to us to steam into the beautiful bay on a calm, sunny morning, past the old fort which guards the entrance, and into the back of the island on which the town now stands.
But the Maltese people rose, and held the rest of the island against him, and sent and asked the British under Lord Nelson to come to their assistance.
Thus the French were defeated, and the Maltese handed themselves and their island over to become a colony of the British Empire.
Every day they were obliged to fly over many a league of gray ocean to the mainland and back to their home, an island in the midst of the sea.
At the 'Hangings' the soil has the appearance of having been slowly roasted, long after the central fires which produced the island had lost their energy.
White Island is in the Bay of Plenty, not far from Auckland, the government seat of New Zealand, on the more northerly of the two islands forming the group.
Upon this cruel usage, and the disappointment of her fortune, Anne and her husband sailed for the island of Providence, in the hope of gaining employment.
The island was in sight all day, and about ten at night we came under the land, but it consisted of rocks so steep and craggy that we could not climb up.
In this condition they reached the island of Mauritius, refitted the Victory, and left that place with the following inscription written upon one of the walls: "Left this place on the 5th of April, to go to Madagascar for Limos.
If England and his small company had not been destitute of every necessary, they might have made a comfortable subsistence here, as the islandabounds with deer, hogs, and other animals.
Island of Barrataria, and discovered a number of vessels in the harbor, some of which shewed Carthagenian colors.
Here they took in a quantity of fresh provisions, which are in this islandvery plentiful and very cheap, and found a twelve-oared boat, which formerly belonged to the Ruby East Indiaman, which had been lost there.
After the pirates had surrendered to his Majesty's pardon, and Providence island was peopled by the English government, Captain England sailed to Africa.
There is also the island of Barrataria, at the extremity of which is a place called the Temple, which denomination it owes to several mounds of shells thrown up there by the Indians.
Hereabouts he made an unsuccessful cruise, touching sometimes at the islandof Mohila, and sometimes at that of Johanna, between Malabar and Madagascar.
After the storm, Low went into a small island west of the Carribbees, refitted his vessels, and got provision for them in exchange of goods.
Several of their hands were sent on shore with tents and ammunition, to kill such beasts and venison as the island afforded.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "island" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
