As he called to them he saw Pearce, the young British sailor, lying between the thwarts with the long shaft of an arrow in his chest, and a young Norfolk Islander with an arrow under his left eye.
He dropped his paddle; he drooped his head, and great tears welled out from the eyes of this dark islander and ran down his cheeks.
Fisher's love to his Bishop had been that of a youth to the hero whom he worships, but Patteson had led that brown islander still further, for he had taught the boy to love the Hero of all heroes, Jesus Christ.
It said if Islander spare white men's life, no harm come.
The island will be lost before Islander can find all their foes.
He had cut one islander down with a fearful blow on the shoulder, which severed the arm, the limb falling on the deck, when he was attacked by three others.
I felt well repaid by the unmistakable gratitude Terau had evinced towards me from the moment the Ocean islander and I had carried her pain-racked form below.
Fletcher Quintal, and her cousin," the islander replied, drawing himself up and looking at me with a steady gaze.
In his belt he carries--perhaps from force of habit--a heavy navy revolver, before which many a fierce Pleasant islander has gone down in the bloody emeutes so common in that wild spot.
More than eight," I answered; "I can talk with nearly every islander from here to the Gilberts.
Mr Knight seized this as a favourable moment, and advanced upon Luerson, with the intention of securing him, and the islanderwas thus left free.
Again the little islander shouted joyously, and clasped his hands, while the tears streamed down his olive cheeks.
It is said that an islander once replied with indignation to a stranger's tactless comment on the scarcity of wood, "Indeed, we can heat our ovens with our geranium-faggots!
He singled out the Diomede Islander who had disposed of most of his sealskin boots.
Grasping a Gay Islander by the neck, he led him to the omission and pointed downward.
A third islander declared it was impossible for the ship to enter that channel, which was scarcely navigable for a boat.
Impatiently, the sailor pointed again, and the islander understood.
One of the women touched a white-haired, white-bearded islander on the arm.
Moreover the Pasha held the men of Neopalia in no great respect, and certainly did not think that a single islander could offer any resistance to his schemes.
Then go to the edge of your island--you are an islander too, are you not?
I can't be considered an islander of Neopalia for all purposes, my dear Pasha.
They have time to give only a glance to the Islander and his home.
Who will call them lazy or indifferent who has considered what the life of the Islander has been for generations?
In Iona this home seems decent enough; if you stop to ask the Islander what he thinks, however, I doubt if it will be praise alone you will hear of his model landlord.
But the Islander loves his home as he once loved his chief, and now hates his landlord, and he must be in extremity indeed before he will go from it.
The veteran islander performed his promise faithfully, and pointed out the very spot where the unfortunate discoverer fell.
Weekes and this islanderwere the only survivors of the crew of the jolly-boat, and no trace was ever discovered of Fox and his party.
Really, to be anislander full of ale, is to be the kindest creature on or off two legs.
The Andaman islander has been blamed with it simply becauses he chances to go naked, and looks, as he is, hungry and emaciated.
This lets the Andaman islander into the Great China Sea; or rather, coming from that sea, it forms the stepping-stone to his present residence in the Bay of Bengal.
But the Tongan Islander has no ugliness to conceal, and both men and women have had the good taste to refrain from disfiguring the fair features which nature has so bountifully bestowed upon them.
Truly the Andaman islander has few pretensions to being a beauty!
Both, however, compel us to return to the more particular subject of our sketch; and we shall do so after having made a remark, promised above, and which relates to the probability of the Andaman islander being a cannibal.
I have endeavoured to clear the Andaman islanderof the charge of this guilt; and, since appearances are so much against him, he ought to feel grateful.
A coincidence of personal habit, between the Andaman islander and the Melanesian, is also observed.
His performance reminded me in general effect of a chant I once heard from a party of Orientals I was travelling with in a third-class carriage from Paris to Dieppe, but the islander ran his voice over a much wider range.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "islander" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
