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Example sentences for "large island"

  • It was evidently a large island, for two or three miles away the country rose hill beyond hill, culminating in a jagged mountain dome twenty miles distant.

  • At the time he was abreast of a large island, and he presently saw a war canoe shoot out from the shore.

  • It may be a large island, and the villages may lie on the other side.

  • St. Cloud and above Mosquito rapids; the latter, not bad, are between a large island on the right and a creek that makes in on the left (S.

  • Mr. Dickson wintered, and that this place was on a large island.

  • Sailing westward, they found a large island, which they named Melville Island after the first Lord of the Admiralty, and a bay which still bears the name of Hecla and Griper Bay.

  • We were coasting the eastern side of a large island, having been thirty-six hours without food, looking for a port where we could put in and purchase provisions.

  • It appeared to the explorer as a large island which he called Isla Santa.

  • This is a large island, the middle of which is in lat 12° 45' N.

  • Footnote 79: Luzon is certainly a large island, but by no means such as represented in the text.

  • From thence they came to a large island named Chippit, in lat.

  • The next day this land was ascertained to be a large island, to which the name of Adelaide was given, in honour of the Queen of England.

  • Haddington and Parry, ascertained that Louis Philippe's Land is only a large island, and visited Bransfield Strait, separating it from Shetland.

  • A mile above this is a large island, which seems to be Pike's Turkey isl.

  • Most of the older maps mark hereabout the large island in the Arkansaw called Chouteau's, somewhat W.

  • By four o'clock found the Indians behind a large island; we made no stop, and they followed us.

  • Reaching the Arkansas late in the season, they were overtaken by a heavy snowstorm, and driven to take shelter on a large island.

  • Finally Cartier reached a large island, which he called Bacchus Island, with reference to the abundance of vines; though afterward it was given the name it now bears, the Island of Orleans.

  • All that it shows for the geography of the St. Lawrence Gulf and River is a depression in the coast nearly filled by a large island.

  • Sud-Est is a large island 40 miles in length and eight miles broad.

  • Basilaki" is a large island about 15 miles from the main coast.

  • Rounding a point, we stood across a bay for a mile and a half or two miles, toward a large island, three or four miles down the lake.

  • It was a large island, with an abundance of hemp nettle, but I did not notice any kind of red paint there.

  • Over-against the coast of New Ireland, to the westward of Cape Byron, lies a fine, large island, to which I gave the name of New Hanover.

  • He landed upon a large island on the north side of Snow Sound, and being almost perished with cold, the first thing he did was to make a large fire, with some small trees which he found upon the spot.

  • Then we sailed northeast until we saw a gulf, whereupon we turned southeast until we saw a large island.

  • It is a large island, and has a good port with two entrances—one to the west and the other to the east northeast.

  • It is rather a large island, rocky for the most part; and there not being much food for animals, very few are found there.

  • That was certainly an omission, for Dahalac is a large island, sixty miles in circumference.

  • Quadra is a large island, and I think better known by the name of Nootka Sound, which is at the south end of the island, and contains an English establishment.

  • A large island, on the northern side of the harbour, is an excellent watering-place, at which casks may be conveniently filled in the boat.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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