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Example sentences for "these islands"

  • Agricultural co-operation had never succeeded in England, where it seemed to be accepted as one of the disappointing limitations of the co-operative movement that it did not apply to rural communities in these islands.

  • Wolff, the foremost authority on People's Banks in these islands, and Mr. R.

  • How long the practice of the hermit life was common in these islands is more than my learning enables me to say.

  • In these islands we are steadily introducing both liberty and order, to a greater degree than their people have ever before known.

  • The administration of these islands should be as wholly free from the suspicion of partisan politics as the administration of the Army and Navy.

  • I wish to call the attention of the Congress to one question which affects our insular possessions generally; namely, the need of an increased liberality in the treatment of the whole franchise question in these islands.

  • All of these islands are in a bay,[85] having, in my estimation, a circuit of more than fifteen leagues.

  • These islands lie in several inlets and bays.

  • For a full description and history of these islands, the reader is referred to "The Isles of Shoals," by John S.

  • And then, captain, who knows but that your brother and his sailors might have taken refu ge on one of these islands!

  • Here, on the contrary, in these Islands of Desolation, where I have no reason to feel desolate, ease and competence have come to me and mine!

  • This relation, in its present sum and substance, was made by the cabildo of this city, in order that it might be sent to Father Alonso Sanchez, general agent for this city and these islands at his Majesty's court.

  • All of these islands, as well as those of the settlement of Çubu, abound in flesh of wild hogs and birds; and in all the above-mentioned places many fowls and swine are raised.

  • Of all the provinces in these islands, this one has the most instruction.

  • These islands do not appear to occupy more space than eight miles from north to south, and nearly the same distance from east to west.

  • These islands have a barren aspect, are of moderate height, and may be seen on a clear day at a distance of twenty-five miles.

  • On the east side of the largest of these islands there is reported to be a small, sandy bay, where a boat could land in fine weather.

  • It is probably to these islands, whose existence captain Cook suspected, that the great flights of boobies he saw in Hervey's Bay retire at night.

  • The space occupied by these islands is thirty-four miles east and west, by twenty-two miles of latitude; and the five principal islands are from seven to seventeen miles in length.

  • Nothing was seen on these islands to merit more particular notice; and their forms and situations will be best learned from the chart.

  • It is not perhaps of much use to seek a serious identification of the locality of these Islands, or, as Marsden has done, to rationalise the fable.

  • In the greater part of these Islands plenty of corn grows.

  • Some years since there were frightful disclosures regarding the massacre of the crews of vessels touching at these islands, and this has led eventually to their occupation by the Indian Government.

  • A more extended account or these islands will be found in Part III.

  • When a ship gets into 30 fathoms she will be within 8 miles of the North-East side of these islands; and on the opposite she will have that depth half the distance off.

  • When the Beagle was midway between these islands, they were both visible from the masthead.

  • You forget that while Henry of Lancaster lives no other man can ever hope to reign tranquilly in these islands.

  • It is of common report in these islands that I have a better right to the throne than you.

  • Men have long urged me, Rosamund, to a deed which by one stroke would make me mistress of these islands.

  • It is decreed I shall never reign in these islands.

  • She was married a long while ago, madame, to the King of England, Lord Henry, third of that name to reign in these islands.

  • Lastly we state clearly that our concessions and petitions do not signify on our part that we recognize the sovereignty of North America in these islands, as they are made necessary by the present war.

  • Without this law American government in these Islands is, in our opinion, foredoomed to humiliating failure.

  • There is a Town on one of these Islands, where is good Entertainment for those that happen to come in, though the Land is but mean, and Flesh-meat not Plenty.

  • The reason of this state of affairs is not far to seek: our people neither know anything about these islands, nor do they care anything about them.

  • The present inhabitants of these islands and of the Batanes live in stone houses, much like those of North Ireland and the islands west of Scotland.

  • One of these islands, Fuga, is especially interesting; urn-burial prevailed in it in the past, the urns in some cases being arranged in a circle around a central urn or altar.

  • I said before, that it was on the faith of the country that we embarked our property in these islands.

  • Now, until man labours there is no chance of civilisation: and, improved as the race of Africa have been in these islands, I still think that if manumitted, they would all starve.


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