Other islands have one house and barn on them, this sole family being lords and rulers of all the land which the sea girds.
Its watery labyrinth is not so much a network of rivers, as an ocean of fresh water cut up and divided by land, the land being often nothing more than an archipelago of islands in its midst.
Thompson said his sensations were similar to those of Captain Cook or Herman Melville when they first landed to skim the cream of the fairy islands of the Pacific.
We called off various islandson our way, chiefly to obtain fresh provisions and water.
It is said that these islands were produced by volcanoes; perhaps one has just burst forth, and he fears that the lava may overtake us.
About a month after leaving Juan Fernandez we reached the Galapagos, a group of volcanic islands lying under the equator, their black and rugged shores having a most uninviting appearance.
Islands become annexed to the mainland, and otherislands emerge from the flood, and will soon, likewise, be connected with the continent.
It seemed like the formation of a new world; for islands were everywhere emerging, and capes extending forth into the flood; and these tracts, which were thus won from the watery empire, were among the greenest in the landscape.
On one side of the pan lay the Spanish main, on the other the islands of the South Seas.
The air was cold, but quite still, and the reflections, both of the islands and of Nab Scar, seemed to sink into unfathomed depths of shadowy water.
That the cession of the islands lying between Sicily and Italy, which the peace of 513 prescribed to the Carthaginians, did not include the cession of Sardinia is a settled point (III.
Theophiliscus, the vigilant -strategus- of Rhodes, exhorted his citizens to meet the common danger by common resistance, and not to suffer the towns and islands to become one by one a prey to the enemy.
Phoenician squadrons threatened the coasts of Italy and of the Roman islands and guarded Africa from a Roman landing, and there the matter ended.
They had occupied the islands not on their own account, but for the security of Italy.
And again raged the sale of the islands as penny salt- cellars, finger-basins, etc.
But, Richard--captain yourislands with decent men".
Far yonder in the darkness and distance of the deep the islandsflashed and danced, and were fashionable.
The islands began to seem a natural part of the sum of things.
On foggy days the mariner was aware of the islandswailing weird siren-sounds of warning.
He returned immediately to England, having there many occupations, which multiplied as the islands everywhere neared completion, the first of the launches taking place at Spezzia on the 7th of February.
The islandswaved common-code signals of greeting to the passer.
He made these same statements also to the populace, when that body had likewise assembled outside the pomerium, and he sent for corn from the islands and promised each one of them seventy-five denarii.
Thus Pompey secured command of the sea and of the islands and of the mainland for four hundred etades inland from the sea.
Footnote 95: The name of these islands is spelled both Gymnasioe and Gymnesioe, and they are also called Baleares and Pityusoe.
The latter being close to the Gymnasian[95] islands took possession of them without a battle, save Ebusus: this one he brought over with difficulty, and then falling sick delayed there together with his soldiers.
In the primitive limestone are found the Kuetzel-loch, near Kaufungen in Silesia, and probably several caverns in the islands of the Archipelago.
When the Spaniards, after the year 1498, began to visit the mainland, they already had words* to designate the vegetable productions most useful to man, and common both to the islands and to the coasts of Cumana and Paria.
The only fine port of the Canary Islands is that of St. Sebastian, in the isle of Gomara.
I cannot describe the impression made upon my mind by the sight of the vessel which had carried Commerson to the islands of the South Sea.
We were forced by the winds to pass between the islands of Alegranza and Montana Clara, and as none on board the sloop had sailed through this passage, we were obliged to be continually sounding.
The volcanic islands form one-fifth of that great arc extending from the coast of Paria to the peninsula of Florida.
Some geologists admit that the uninterrupted chain of islands from Trinidad to Florida exhibits the remains of an ancient chain of mountains.
The fruits of several trees of the Antilles are often washed ashore on the coasts of the islands of Ferro and Gomera.
During our stay at Cura we made numerous excursions to the rocky islands (which rise in the midst of the lake of Valencia,) to the warm springs of Mariara, and to the lofty granitic mountain called El Cucurucho de Coco.
The natives of the Canary Islandscalled themselves Guanches, from guan, man; as the Tonguese call themselves bye, and tongui, which have the same signification as guan.
Vieyra, "that the play of the terrestrial refractions may render visible to the inhabitants of the Canaries the islands of Cape Verd, and even the Apalachian mountains of America.
To the north of the Cape Verd Islands we met with great masses of floating seaweeds.
It is by help of these squalls, which alternate with dead calms, that the passage from the Canary Islands to the Antilles, or southern coast of America, is made in the months of June and July.
That day Pantagruel came to the two islands of Tohu and Bohu, where the devil a bit we could find anything to fry with.
How Pantagruel came to the islands of Tohu and Bohu; and of the strange death of Wide-nostrils, the swallower of windmills.
How, after the storm, Pantagruel went on shore in the islands of the Macreons.
The sun sank, covering the islands and the sea with a rare amethystine glow deepening to a band of purple, like some old dyed cloth, then fading to pale green at the rim of the earth.
The vast buildings rose like islands in the morning mist.
And suppose," Falkner suggested, "I should lose my way in this nest of reefs and islands and we got shipwrecked or carried out to sea?
Then broke the calm before a breeze That sought the secret of the west; And listless all we swept the seas Towards the Islands of the Blest.
With coasts enchanted where the Sirens be, With islands where a Goddess walks alone, And in the cedar trees the magic winds make moan.
Looking from the islands landward, the locked shores have still for long stretches the aspect of undiscovered country.
Great clouds of the young birds can be seen, just before mating and after nesting in the fall, rising from the low islands of the river-junction.
The pimpernel, too, crept out of the enclosing wall, and the tree mallow which came from the Channel Islands by way of the gardens and has become a common hedge plant on the sandy lands about the bay of San Francisco.
Islands "very near the terrestrial paradise" the old Spanish romancer described them.
Whole islands were populated by pelicans, repairing there annually for the strange, sidling wing-dances that attend their mating.
The soil of Bear Island and of the Liachoff Islands (New Siberia) is said to consist only of sand and ice with such quantities of Mammoth bones that it appears as if they were almost made up of bones and tusks.
Every summer numbers of fishermen make for these islands to collect fossil ivory, and during the winter immense caravans return laden with Mammoth tusks.
Is it not true That you were born a thousand years ago, In islands where the children of Aengus wind In happy dances under a windy moon, And that you’ll bring me there?
Sharpe and I had to be on deck nearly all night, it was blowing so hard, and of course there were those islands to avoid.
The Skipper seemed to depend upon these particularly, because they had naturally more intimate knowledge of the islands and the character of the people.
These are supposed to cruise round the islands and keep down piracy--as a matter of fact they don't.
All the islandsof the archipelago simply abound with game.
He then came up and helped Lawrence pick his way among the islands towards the one where he said that Hobbs and Sally were imprisoned.
We had to keep under way that night, because the next lot of little islandswhich we had to examine were about nine miles away, and the breeze had fallen considerably.
From there we steamed down to Tinghai Harbour in Chusan, the largest of the islands of the Chusan Archipelago, and anchored close to Joss House Hill and the tumble-down ramparts of the new town of Tinghai.
He doesn't hurry the old Huan Min round these islandsto find them, I bet you anything you like, sir.
We got a little lee from one of the islands some time during the middle watch, so then we made better weather of it.
According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompense.
Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Tyre: shall not the islands shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when the slaughter is made in the midst of you?
Now shall the islands tremble in the day of your fall; yes, the islands that are in the sea shall be dismayed at your departure.
Of these were the islandsof the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.
The men of Dedan were your traffickers; many islands were the market of your hand: they brought you in exchange horns of ivory and ebony.
The kings of Tarshish and of theislands will bring tribute.
He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he has set justice in the earth, and the islands will wait for his law.
All the inhabitants of the islands are astonished at you, and their kings are horribly afraid; they are troubled in their face.
Of the oaks of Bashan have they made your oars; they have made your benches of ivory inlaid in boxwood, from the islands of Kittim.
King Ahasuerus laid a tribute on the land, and on the islands of the sea.
Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east, even the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the islands of the sea!
Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.
We had the choice of endeavouring to pass to the western shore, on the upper side of the barrier, or of proceeding towards the nearest of several low islands which lay in the opposite direction.
This is near the place where the islands are so numerous, and we were unavoidably made to pass quite close to some of the batteaux.
I say annual; for though the freshet which now encompassed us, was far more serious than usual, each year brought something of the sort; and the islands were constantly increasing or diminishing under their action.
Every foot will bring us so much nearer to Albany, and we shall get among the islands a mile or two higher, where the chances of landing will be greatly increased.
It will be no difficult thing for us to swim from one of these islands to another, and the troops must pass through the midst of them, 'n order to get into the lower lake.
There have been colony bills among us, but they are not favourites, most of our transactions being carried on by means of the Spanish gold and Spanish silver, that find their way up from the islands and the Spanish main.
Countless islands lay almost under our feet, rendering the mixture of land and water, at that particular point, as various and fanciful as the human imagination could desire.
Peninsula and Islandsof India, East of Bengal Bay.
Martin, "Description of the Western Islands of Scotland," in J.
Seclusion of Girls at Puberty in the Torres Straits Islands and Northern Australia.
M35) Among the Haida Indians of the Queen Charlotte Islands girls at puberty were secluded behind screens in the house for about twenty days.
M31 Seclusion of girls at puberty in the islands of Torres Straits.
Campbell, Superstitions of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland (Glasgow, 1900), pp.
Campbell, Witchcraft and Second Sight in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland (Glasgow, 1902), pp.
M251) In the earliest systematic account of the western islands of Scotland we read that "the inhabitants here did also make use of a fire called Tin-egin, i.
On Various Superstitions in the North-West Highlands and Islands of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1862), p.
Campbell, Superstitions of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland (Glasgow, 1900), p.
John Gregorson Campbell, Superstitions of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland (Glasgow, 1900), pp.
Herrera, General History of the vast Continent and Islands of America, trans.
John Gregorson Campbell, Witchcraft and Second Sight in the Highlands and Islandsof Scotland (Glasgow, 1902), pp.
Some of the poorer sort of people in these islands retain the custom of performing these rounds sun-ways about the persons of their benefactors three times, when they bless them, and wish good success to all their enterprizes.
In some parts of the islands separate fires were provided for the girls, and they went out and in by a separate door at the back of the house.
Bowen, in 1862, to the Imperial Government recommending Somerset, Cape York, as a harbour of refuge, coaling station and entrepot for the trade of Torres Straits and islands of the North Pacific.
He sailed through from the eastern side, and he describes the numerous islands lying between New Guinea and Cape York.
Scotch thistle in the centre, is a flag well known throughout the Pacific Islandsand all round Australia.
First the navigator outlines the coast with its bays and islands and openings for ports; such were Cook, Flinders, Stokes, and others.
Flinders mentions seeing many traces of Malay occupation along the shores of the islands of the Gulf--temporary occupation for the purpose of collecting beche de mer.
Using a single paddle on each side alternately, the natives will make long voyages among the islands on the coast.
The blossom is like that of our yellow pond-lily; but the leaves are very broad and beautiful as they float like green islands on the blue waters.
Besides this, a smaller boat takes passengers to Jacksonville by what is called the inside passage,--a circuitous course through the network of islands that lines the shore.
Though, on the 25th of May, the garrison of Boston was largely reinforced and ships were added to the squadron, the Americans began work boldly with the islands nearest at hand.
Other little expeditions, carried on against either the harbor islands or the shipping near the town, were successfully undertaken.
Emboldened by this success, the provincials began to take steps to remove from the islands the whole stock of cattle, sheep, and hay.
The militia was called out, and artillery was carried to islands down the harbor.
No owner of a pasture on the harbor islands might bring his hay to the town; no goods might be brought across any ferry; not even carriage by water from wharf to wharf in the town was allowed.
It occurred to him, finally, that the islands in the harbor were plentifully stocked with sheep and cattle, and besides grew plenty of grass.
The Yankee fishermen now took occasion to remove from the islands the hay and live stock which they had not taken before Bunker Hill.
Near the Maldive Islands they have formed a mass whose volume is equal to the Alps.
There were no trees, and the multitude ofislands seemed like moss-covered rocks; while the temperature, though in the middle of the antarctic summer, was from 38 to 58 degrees Fahr.
In order to get rid of these dangerous islands we stood south and west, and at length found ourselves in south latitude 65 degrees, longitude 60 degrees east.
Into the waters of the Arabian Sea, blue as indigo, we steamed on the morning of February 1st, and soon after daybreak the next morning the volcanic group of islands off the African coast were in plain sight from the steamer's deck.
She had left San Francisco for the islands before the Presidential election had taken place, and as the Hawaiian Islands were not connected by cable with the United States, its passengers were ignorant of the result.
A few moments later we had left Samoan Islands behind us and were again tossing on the foam-topped waves.
Sometimes hot and sometimes cold, King of the Cannibal Islands," and I tried hard to fancy what might have happened had we landed on those sameislands several centuries before.
With an ocean journey of 7,000 miles before us there was much to be done, and it was again late before we retired to dream of the King of the Cannibal Islands and the Land of the Kangaroo.
I can see its garlanded crags, its leaping cascades, its plumy palms drowsing by the shore, its remote summits floating like islands above the cloud rack.
Sancho," said Ricote; "islands are away out in the sea; there are no islands on the mainland.
May evil islands choke thee, thou detestable Sancho," said the niece; "What are islands?
To this he with the wand replied, "It is not to be eaten, senor governor, except as is usual and customary in other islands where there are governors.
I was not born to be a governor or protect islands or cities from the enemies that choose to attack them.
Those are not governors of islands," observed Samson, "but of other governments of an easier kind: those that governislands must at least know grammar.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "islands" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
