United States, between the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific, and including the peninsulas of Lower California in the W.
Before long we found ourselves close to Taravao, the narrow strip of land connecting the two peninsulas into which Tahiti is divided, and commenced to ascend the hills that form the backbone of the island.
The ship was put about, the sails filled, and, continuing steadily on our course throughout the evening, we made the smaller of the two peninsulas that form the island of Tahiti at 10.
It is the one good road of Tahiti, encircling the larger of the two peninsulas close to the sea-shore, and surmounting the low mountain range in the centre of the isthmus.
They are found not only in Sumatra, in Borneo, in the Celebes and Philippine Islands, but in considerable portions of the two peninsulas within and beyond the Ganges.
The Malayo-Polynesian race has also been designated, and much more felicitously, the Neptunian or Pelagian, because it peoples exclusively the peninsulas and islands of the great Southern Ocean.
The peninsulas of Purbeck and Portland are continually wasting away.
Peninsulas have been divided from the main land, and have become islands, as Leucadia; and according to tradition, Sicily, the sea having carried away the isthmus.
The forests of Roumare and Mauny, occupying the two peninsulas formed by the winding Seine just below Rouen, are remarkable, and are like nothing else except the other forests in France.
The time has come for the most western of her three peninsulas to play its part in the general affairs of the world.
But the peninsula which was not wholly Mediterranean, which had two of its three sides washed by the outer Ocean, was never to play such a part as the elder peninsulas which felt only the waters of the inland sea.
The world of peninsulasand islands is the world of the Greek now, exactly as it was in the days of the Homeric Catalogue.
The second of the great peninsulas of southern Europe, the central one of the three, the peninsula which held Rome and Capua and the cities of the Etruscan, was beginning to come to the front in the drama of history.
Aurelian made the Danube once more the Roman frontier; beyond it the Goth might dwell till his day came to march at will through the three great peninsulas and at last to find himself a throne in the most western.
No clean-cut boundary sharply delimits the two, as strands and peninsulas of tissue of one portion penetrate the other.
Mitishto and upper Minago rivers, and on a few of the islands and peninsulas in the larger lakes—as shown on the map.
On the islands and lakes there were pretty good timbers, and on some little peninsulas that are nearly cut off; otherwise it had all been burnt.
Would any one deny the increasing difficulty with which life is maintained as we pass from the southern peninsulas to the more rigorous climates of the north?
The southern peninsulas were offering to the warlike chieftains of middle Europe a tempting prize.
We pass by Methana, of allpeninsulas the nearest to an island, cleaving to the Argolic Akte as the Akte cleaves to Peloponnesos, as Peloponnesos cleaves to Hellas, as Hellas and the adjoining lands cleave to the general mass of Europe.
The traveller will thus begin his researches with one of those charming voyages among islands and peninsulas which form so special a feature in Greek travel.
Unless he has studied his map very carefully, he may draw near under the belief that the Attic peninsula ends in a point, in the same way in which the three southern peninsulas of Peloponnesos, that of Tainaros above all, certainly do.
Mountain lands, small islets, and peninsulas broken into by deep bays and gulfs, rise to the northward of the east end of the Mediterranean, and were known to the Jews as the Isles of the Gentiles.
It has wonderfully transparent water, being fed by springs, and its outline is very irregular, pierced by deep, elongated bays, and having broad peninsulas or necks of land stretching far out from the mainland.
Vineyard Haven, its chief harbor, is deep and narrow, opening like a pair of jaws at the northern apex of the triangle, the entrance being guarded by the pointed peninsulas of the East Chop and West Chop, each provided with a lighthouse.
East of Britain lie two peninsulas which have been the cradle of very important peoples.
The peninsulas near the Ensenada of Galera de Zamba and near the port of Savanilla have the same aspect as the peninsula Baru.
The two cousins, Chariton and Dmitri Laptjef, who were equipped anew and vested with great authority, attacked the task of doubling the Taimyr and Bering peninsulas with renewed vigor.
It was especially the projecting points and peninsulas in this region that caused these explorers innumerable difficulties.
At the mouth of the main river we have a set of rugged islands and peninsulas enclosing an estuarine sea, the Gulf of St. Lawrence, which gradually narrows in the course of three hundred miles to the channel of the great river.
If we exclude those that are within the Arctic Circle, there are but few on the four regular continents, none of which compare in size or usefulness to man with the greater peninsulas of the Old World.
In all of them put together there are not so many great peninsulas as there are in Europe.
The two most prominent peninsulas are Thunder Cape and Cariboo Point.
The storms of the Pacific arising in the equatorial calm belt, are most violent in the East Indies, and the southern peninsulas of Asia.
Lying on severalpeninsulas formed by the river of St. John, the harbour, and the Bay of Fundi, the city is surrounded by water.
It bears some resemblance to Otaheite, being divided into two peninsulas by an isthmus of low land, having a stripe of fertile soil next the shore, from which hills of a volcanic origin arise towards the centre.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peninsulas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
