The whole then proceeded together to the lake shore, where they were to embark for the Isles du Castor.
In this atmosphere, which seemed to flow over all these Atlantic isles at this season, one endures a great deal of exertion with little fatigue; or he is content to sit still, and has no feeling of sluggishness.
It was after we passed these lighthouses that we did n't see the whale, and began to regret the hard fate that took us away from a view of the Isles of Shoals.
These outer islands look cold and wind-swept even in summer, and have a hardness of outline which is very far from the aspect of summer isles in summer seas.
The Melanesian Mission was begun from New Zealand; but whereas the isles are too hot for English constitutions, they can only be visited from the sea, and lads are brought away to be educated for teachers.
At the same time, the Dido, Captain William Morshead, had been commanded by the Admiralty to touch at the isles of Cape Horn and carry relief to the missionaries.
It was some time before he could come again; for, after eighteen years of unremitting labour in theisles of Raiatea and Rarotonga, and of voyages touching on many other isles, he had made up his mind to visit England.
But the Society Isleswere coveted, for political reasons, by the existing French Government, and the struggle was there beginning, of which Mr. Williams was not destined to see the unfortunate conclusion.
Yet most of the more accessible of the isles have a resident missionary, and keep up schools and chapels.
A secret treaty is extant, signed in 1631, by which Charles engaged to assist the King of Spain in the conquest of that great protestant commonwealth, retaining the isles of Zealand as the price of his co-operation.
We have got rich plains and highlands, Ontario hath thousand islands, And there is a great array Of charming isles on Georgian Bay.
Her lofty brow is wreathed with smiles, For from the far Atlantic isles In pomp have come their delegates, All seeking to unite their fates.
And travellers all they do adore, The lovely isles near Huron's shore, Superior makes a grand display, All round her shores to Thunder Bay.
In all parts of the British Isles the mean temperature of the year was in excess by as much as 2 deg.
The question of the ability of the Navy to protect the British Isles from invasion had been raised by the Earl of Portsmouth in the Upper House on March 10.
The Queen issued an appeal to all needlework guilds throughout the British Isles (Aug.
This determination, however, had nearly sent us to a French port, for the Guerriere was taken of the Feroe Isles on the 19th July, two days after we passed them.
The climate of these, as of all otherisles of like size, is far from being settled.
The people of these isles have attempted to introduce a larger breed of sheep from Britain, but the inclemency of the climate rendered their labours abortive.
At four we saw other small islands, by which I was now assured that these were the Bande Isles there.
We find the following passage in "Among the Isles of Shoals," which throws a light beyond that of her own lantern.
One of Whittier's summer pleasures, in which he occasionally indulged himself, was a visit to the Isles of Shoals.
It is worthy of observation, however, that the Tonga Isles have the advantage, as regards the wind.
I would call him the Christopher Columbus of these countries, of the coast of Alaska, and of nearly all the isles of the South Seas.
Many of the people of Scotland and Ireland are their descendants, and their language is still spoken in the Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland, in parts of Ireland, and in the Isle of Man.
Then their hearts were comforted a little; but they wept as they went on board, and the cliffs of Sunium rang, and all the isles of the AEgean Sea, with the voice of their lamentation, as they sailed on toward their deaths in Crete.
And at last the ship struck on a shoal, amid low isles of mud and sand, and the waves rolled over her and through her, and the heroes lost all hope of life.
So Perseus and the Phoenicians rowed to the westward, across the sea of Crete, till they came to the blue AEgean and the pleasant Isles of Hellas, and Seriphos, his ancient home.
These hostile gods at length have quit the plain, On neighbouring isles the storm of war they shun, Happy, thrice happy, if not quite undone.
Such were the isles which happy Flaccus sung, Where one tree blossoms while another bears, Where spring forever gay, and ever young, Walks her gay round through her unwearied years.
A Nineveh where Oronoque descends With waves discolour'd from the Andes high, Winding himself around a hundredisles Where golden buildings glitter o'er his tide.
But chief the glory of these Indian isles Springs from the sweet, uncloying sugar-cane, Hence comes the planter's wealth, hence commerce sends Such floating piles to traverse half the main.
Twice seven days prosperous gales thy barque shall bear To isles that flourish in perpetual green, Where richest herbage glads each shady vale, And ever verdant plants on every hill are seen.
In distant isles some happier scene I'll choose And court in softer shades the unwilling muse.
He never himself visited Japan, and his glowing description of the "Isles washed by stormy seas and abounding in gold and pearls" was founded on what he had been told by the Chinese he had met during his Eastern travels.
What I desire is to broadly emphasise the fact that in the future of the Pacific--those innumerable isles dotted here and there over its surface, Japan is a factor that cannot be left out of account.
Into this insignificant territory and the British Isles were packed all that was left of the world's two billion people: a blinded, starving mob, driven mad by terror.
Her nails were blackened and split with labour, Her back was heavily bowed; Silently floated beside her The isles of sunset-cloud.
He declared to the authorities of the Ionian Islesthat they might rely on the powerful protection of France.
Among other things it was stated that Egypt might be conquered with 6000 men, and that the Ionian Isles where disposed to throw off the yoke.
In short, things were just in the same state as if the decree for the blockade of the British Isles had not existed.
Without a navy it was ridiculous to declare the British Isles in a state of blockade, whilst the English fleets were in fact blockading all the French ports.
The result is that the kite is a rara avis at home; a nestling born in the British Isles is said to be worth L25.
There can be little doubt that the sport originated in the East, and was introduced into the British Isles in Anglo-Saxon times.
In the British Islesgulls frequently follow the plough and greedily seize the worms and grubs turned up in the furrow.
The excessive joy, the rapture, the ecstasy with which we greet the spring in the British Isles is, to a certain extent, a reaction.
And, of course, they did not tempt in vain; for to us old hands who have toiled by reef and palm the isles of the southern seas are for ever calling as the East called to Kipling's soldier man.
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