In the English army in the Peninsula were several thousand Germans, principally Hanoverian refugees.
Bevis fetched his hatchet from the Peninsula and began to hack at the willow; Mark, not without some difficulty, got leave to climb into the raft, and sit in the centre.
They built their fire very skilfully; they had made so many in the Peninsula (for there is nothing so pleasant as making a fire out of doors), that they had learnt exactly how to do it.
It is a small peninsulaof Southern Dorset, and at its very center stands one of the most remarkable of the English castles.
It was a clear lucent day and when we climbed a broken tower the whole peninsula of Purbeck spread beneath us like a map.
This attempt was foredoomed to failure, for if economic conditions could not develop cities in the colony, the mere erection of houses upon the unhealthful Jamestown peninsula could accomplish nothing.
Here the river makes a sweeping curve, forming a peninsula about one square mile in extent.
When this work had been completed, Dale led a force of men across to the south bank of the river and took possession of the entire peninsula lying between the Appomattox and the James.
On the twenty-third of May they found a peninsula in the river, which afforded a convenient landing place and was easy to defend, both from the Indians and the Spaniards.
Four guns were dragged to Sandy Bay to command the narrow neck of land that connected the peninsulawith the left bank of the river.
Former Governors had refused to desert the peninsula because of the ease with which it could be defended against the Indians.
The peninsula could hardly be defended successfully against superior forces by land and water, and they would be crushed between the upper and nether millstones.
The road into Portland is across a bridge built in 1839, the first to connect the island-peninsula with the mainland.
It is the site of the Roman Clausentium, an important station between Porchester and Winchester, and when the Saxons came up the water and landed upon the peninsula between the two rivers they probably found a populous town on the older site.
A ferry plies between the steamer quay, just beyond Alexandra Gardens and the Nothe, the headland extremity of the peninsula upon which old Weymouth is built.
The town and the fort were on a narrowpeninsula surrounded on three sides by water or impassable marsh; the fourth side--the northern neck where the old fort stood--was constricted by a meandering creek.
Florida's position at the wayside of the life line connecting Spain with her colonies meant that this semitropical peninsula was of great strategic importance.
I am satisfied for one, to live in one of the peninsula gardens of the West.
Then they did not imagine that the upper peninsula was so rich a mining country.
It is a race known as the Andalusian horse--nearly allied to the Arabian--and no doubt at an earlier period imported into the peninsula of Spain by the Moors.
The Garangan of Java is an ichneumon; and so also are the Mongoos and Nyula of Nepaul; while in the Malay peninsula is a species known as the Malacca ichneumon.
There were many other villages of Mush- co-desh of minor importance everywhere scattered through the northern part of the southern peninsula of Michigan.
They were also allowed access to all the rivers and streams in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, to trap the beavers, minks, otters and muskrats.
After they were completely equipped, they came back to the southern peninsula of Michigan, stealthily and carefully landing at the most uninhabited part of the shore.
After the Ottawas took complete possession of the southern peninsula of Michigan, they fought some more tribes of Indians, subdued them, and compelled them to form confederation with them as their allies.
Even in the days of the cave men, the Gulf Stream, swinging from the equator in the great warm current already formed, laved the then peninsula as it now laves the British Isles.
This was the first hunt upon the rocky peninsula of either of them, and they were delighted with the new surroundings and eager for the fray to come.
However, after the year 1792 all mention of the peninsula abruptly and entirely ceases.
This group was extended during the following decade until the San Francisco peninsula had been completely covered.
There exists until today, on the peninsula of Hindustan, a sectarian cult under the name of Djainism.
A district which is a holy land for one is almost always a holy land for the other, and their sacred places adjoin each other in Bihar, in the peninsula of Gujarat, on Mount Abu in Rajputana and elsewhere.
The Mundas, the Mon-Khmer, the wild tribes of the Malay Peninsula and the Nicobarese all use forms of speech which can be traced back to a common source though they mutually differ widely from each other.
Denmark is a densely populated country composed of the Jutland peninsula and a number of islands.
The long and narrow peninsula of Malacca, extending south-eastward from the territories of Birmah, forms the most southerly point of all Asia.
Thomas Maybank] Masséna’s first important operation in the Peninsula was the siege of the Spanish fortress of Ciudad Rodrigo.
By a strange oversight the important question of future service was overlooked, consequently there was nothing to prevent an early return of the troops to the Peninsula should Napoleon think fit for them to do so.
Financial offers were also forthcoming from the two Peninsula Powers, but he declined them.
It was not for him to foresee that the Peninsula was to prove a running sore of the Imperial body politic.
Should the five Powers send armed assistance to Ferdinand, whom Wellington’s victories in the Peninsula had replaced on the throne?
Had the Governor held out, Wellington was of opinion that “the Peninsula would have been safe,” and the relief of the south of Spain practically certain.
Being built almost entirely of wood, the town had sustained but little injury, but the massive concrete fort at the end of the peninsula had slid bodily into the sea, six-inch guns and all.
The vineyards, oaks and wheatfields of the comparatively well-watered Cape peninsula are not representative of the rest of the Union.
Westward there ran out a peninsula in the shape of an isosceles triangle, of which his present high-road was the base.
The peninsula was called the Cruives--an old name apparently, for it was in antique lettering.
The East Neuk is a term applied more particularly to the country round Fife Ness, and more generally to all of the peninsulaeast of an imaginary line drawn from St Andrews to Elie.
A railway, coming from Kharkov, crosses the peninsula from north to south, terminating at Sevastopol and sending off branch lines to Theodosia and Kerch.
The hideous presence of the English leopard contaminates the peninsula of Spain and Portugal.
Along the western peninsula Eskimo congregate in the spring for the purpose of seal hunting, these animals frequenting these shores in the spring in large numbers.
During Anderson and Stewart’s journey down Backs river in the summer of 1855 caribou were found to be numerous about Clinton-Colden and Aylmer lakes, and the species was observed on Adelaide peninsula in the far north.
At the end of the peninsula the foundations of several old houses were discovered, out of which trees twelve inches in diameter were growing.
It forms the north point of Sandy Bay, and is a peninsula jutting out N.
They are in most points inferior (perhaps in every respect, save navigation,) to all the nations that inhabit the vast peninsula of Eastern India.
Accustomed through three centuries to a system of diplomacy and intrigue among their own small states, they still thought more of the balance of power within the peninsula than of the means to be adopted for repelling foreign force.
By this stipulation no real temporal power was accorded to the Papacy, nor did the new Empire surrender its paramount rights over the peninsula at large.
But restless, turbid, never happy unless fighting, Julius drowned the peninsula in blood.
Henceforth the two great potentates in the peninsulawere an unarmed Pontiff and an absent Emperor.
The Beagle sailed from Valparaiso to the south, for the purpose of surveying the southern part of Chile, the island of Chiloe, and the broken land called the Chonos Archipelago, as far south as the Peninsula of Tres Montes.
We rode across the island to the neck of land which joins the Rincon del Toro (the great peninsulaat the S.
The Ordnance Yard, then a swamp around the battery, and the King's Wharf, were both filled up and levelled by stone and rubbish removed from the five-acre lots of the peninsula which were beginning to be cleared about this time.
Your Grace will see that the place I have fixed for the town is on the west side of the harbor--'tis upon the side of a hill which commands the whole peninsula and shelters the town from the north-west winds.
Firing guns within the town and peninsula was forbidden in 1758 under a penalty.
The spring of 1751 the five acre lots on the Peninsulawere laid out; the people engaged in clearing the land.
In May of this year the Governor and Council offered a bounty for sowing land with grass on the peninsula of Halifax, also for the erection of stone fences around the lots, and for raising grain and potatoes.
These hostilities were being carried on by the Government of Canada, while the two Crowns were nominally at peace, under pretence that the Treaty of Utrecht only ceded to the Crown of Great Britain the peninsula of Nova Scotia proper.
The returns of the number of inhabitants in the town and on the peninsula were as follows:-- Men.
There are no Negritos in Borneo, although they exist in the Malay Peninsula and the Philippines, and our explorers have failed to obtain any specimens of the "tailed" people in whose existence many of the Brunai people believe.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peninsula" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
