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Sentences starting with island

Island under French control--which means a community which depends upon quarantines, not sanitation, for its health. [5]
Island No. [5]

Sentences ending with island

Pyrrhus and his youngest son were just pushing a boat into the water to release from the sands another which had run aground in a shallow near the neighbouring island. [10]
Miss Wallace, to whom the next letter is written, had known Mark Twain in Bermuda, and, after his death, published a dainty volume entitled Mark Twain in the Happy Island. [5]
The white mounds which had risen there had been recognized as tents, even from the Serpent Island. [10]
The other pirates were looking their last, too; and they all looked so long that they came near letting the current drift them out of the range of the island. [5]
She said he was like a man on a desert island. [9]
It was a very large island, and used to be out toward mid-stream; but it is joined fast to the main shore now, and has retired from business as an island. [5]
Samuel Clemens, coming up the river on the A. T. Lacey, two days behind the Pennsylvania, heard a voice shout as they approached the Greenville, Mississippi, landing: "The Pennsylvania is blown up just below Memphis, at Ship Island! [5]
I'm either up to my knees in grass or clay fighting Revolutionists, or I'm riding hard day and night till I'm round-backed like a wood-louse, to make up for all the good time I so badly lost in your little island. [11]
The light begun to come before we got to the foot of the island. [5]
She was soon to become the wife of the captain of the Epicurus, Archibius's swift galley, whose acquaintance she had made when the vessel, on several occasions, brought Charmian's Nubian maid to the island. [10]

Short sentences using island

So Jackson's Island was chosen. [5]
Look, we're nearing the Island. [11]
He has saved the island. [11]
St. John in Patterson's Island. [5]
The island is not large. [5]
We were approaching Island No. [5]
This island, what is it? [11]
The island was en fete. [11]
On an island! [5]
Confound that Island! [5]

Sentences containing island two or more times

Bear Island is, with the exception of the cove into which we had put, as nearly round as an island can be, and perhaps three miles in diameter. [9]
At some forgotten time in the past, cut-offs were made above Vidalia, Louisiana; at island 92; at island 84; and at Hale's Point. [5]
Clarke's Island (where the Pilgrims heard a sermon on the first Sunday), Saguish Point, and Gurnett Headland (showing now twin white lights) appear like a long island intersected by thin lines of blue water. [4]
In times past, the channel used to strike above Island 37, by Brandywine Bar, and down towards Island 39. [5]
We still hope that by cordial and judicious co-operation you can take the batteries on Morris Island and Sullivan's Island and Fort Sumter. [7]
On a blithe summer day we sighted, far off, the Island of Orleans and the tall masts of two patrol ships of war, which in due time we passed, saluting, and ran abreast of the island in the North Channel. [11]
The passengers and scene, Stanhope was thinking, were typically New England, until the boat made a landing at Naushon Island, when he was reminded somehow of Scotland, as much perhaps by the wild furzy appearance of the island as by the "gentle-folks" who went ashore. [4]
Thus the crossed offspring from the Tahitians and English, when settled in Pitcairn Island, increased so rapidly that the island was soon overstocked; and in June 1856 they were removed to Norfolk Island. [1]
The charming island of Rock Island, three miles long and half a mile wide, belongs to the United States, and the Government has turned it into a wonderful park, enhancing its natural attractions by art, and threading its fine forests with many miles of drives. [5]
The news is not good from all over the island, for there are bad planters and bad overseers, and they've poisoned large fields of men in many quarters of the island, and things are wrong. [11]

More example sentences with the word island in them

If you command your staff to have this posted as a proclamation throughout the island, it will do as much good as a thousand soldiers. [11]
Your Admiralty and your government first pardoned the man, and then gave him freedom on the island which you tried to prevent; and now they turn round and confine him to his acres. [11]
He has saved your administration and the island from defeat and horrible loss. [11]
Then you yourself, you, Ann, will be the island haven for which he will long. [10]
Not a dozen yards from where we camped was a rose-tree-think of it, Belgard, a rose-tree on a rag-tag island of Lake Superior! [11]
I arrived at Wye Island in season to dine with the good judge and his family, and there I made over to his charge the property of Patty and her mother. [9]
He, the Celebrity, would gladly sail the Maria over to Bear Island provided another man could be found to relieve him occasionally at the wheel, and the like. [9]
Salem was no worse than some other plantations on the island, but it was far behind such plantations as that owned by Dyck Calhoun, and had been notorious for the cruelties committed on it. [11]
With all the world conquered there is still some mystic island of which she whispers, and to gain this her votary risks all--and loses all. [11]
Without uttering a word in reply, Ledscha stepped back into the boat, but Hanno plied the oars with the utmost caution and guided the skiff without the slightest sound away from the island to an open part of the water far distant from any shore. [10]
Indeed, the Island Wilderness is the very home of romance and dreams and mystery. [5]
After these reflections, which again reminded him of the second appointment and of Ledscha, the sculptor turned away from his work and went to the window to look across at Pelican Island, where she must not await him in vain. [10]
I was placed where, looking east, I could see the Island of Orleans, on which was the summer-house of the Seigneur Duvarney. [11]
He said that when Kamehameha (who was at first merely a subordinate chief on the island of Hawaii), landed here, he brought a large army with him, and encamped at Waikiki. [5]
On the train, when Howard had returned from the smoking car and they were about to disembark at Long Island City, they encountered Mr. Trixton Brent. [9]
Then we saw what the trouble was--at some time or other we had drifted down the wrong side of an island and followed a sluggish branch of the Rhone not frequented in modern times. [5]
The two men were on an island with a shore of fire. [11]
At first people were inclined to make a hero of him, but that only made him grin the more, and at last the island reluctantly decided that he had done the work solely for fee and reward. [11]
Ships of war were continually moving to and fro, and from the Serpent Island they witnessed constantly, often by starlight, the drilling of the oarsmen and of whole squadrons upon the open sea. [10]
Monday morning we were close to the island of Hawaii. [5]
If the men went to the island I just expect they found the camp fire I built, and watched it all night for Jim to come. [5]
But, whenever Pyrrhus went to market, letters reached the island delivered at the fish auction in the harbour by Anukis, Charmian's Nubian maid, to the old freedman, who had become her close friend. [10]
And when I went about the island, if a man were loafing, he would seize his axe and cry, "Here's Davy, he'll tell the Colonel on me. [9]
Another night when we was up at the head of the island, just before daylight, here comes a frame-house down, on the west side. [5]
Jim said if we had the canoe hid in a good place, and had all the traps in the cavern, we could rush there if anybody was to come to the island, and they would never find us without dogs. [5]
The evening after we had left New York, while we were still off the coast of Long Island, I saw on the poop a crowd of steerage passengers listening intently to harangues by speakers addressing them from the top of a pile of life rafts. [9]
And so it was, and all the island was en fete, and when Sheila came to Dyck's plantation the very earth seemed to rejoice. [11]
The enormous monster was weaving its gray net over Tennis, and all the islands in the water, the Pelican Island, and she herself upon the seat of turf, and held them all prisoned in it. [10]
A southerly wind was sending great rolls of fog before it as Mr. Swain and I, with Banks, crossed over to Kent Island on the ferry the next morning. [9]
But the island was not true to itself or its history if it did not divide itself into factions, headed by the Seigneurs, and there had been no ground for good division for five years till De la Foret came. [11]
The ship's doctor was despondent about her; but he was a second-rate man, and felt that perhaps an island doctor might give her some hope. [11]
Her family, indeed, was an old one on the island, and was prominent long before the building of the stone bridge on Canal Street over the outlet of Collect Pond. [4]
That cut bank was an island, and Jim had gone down t'other side of it. [5]
Tradition says he was a favorite god on the Island of Hawaii--a great king who had been deified for meritorious services--just our own fashion of rewarding heroes, with the difference that we would have made him a Postmaster instead of a god, no doubt. [5]
A light breeze wafted the royal gondola towards the island where the fireworks were to be displayed. [10]
Outside of Melbourne, Victoria seems to be owned by a handful of squatters, each with a Rhode Island for a sheep farm. [5]
This phenomenon made us a little suspicious of the foundations of this island which is already invaded by the jealous ocean, and is anchored to the continent only by the cable. [4]
Presently they came up with them, and found them seated on a bench, looking off upon Brigantine Island, a low sand dune with some houses and a few trees against the sky, the most pleasing object in view. [4]
Dyck had built up for himself a reputation as no one in all the history of the island had been able to do. [11]
No one could understand what they said, and they have never named their country; or, if they have, the name does not correspond with that of any island on any chart. [5]
John Wagner is two years older than the Rhode Island veteran, and yet has never tasted a drop of liquor in his life--unless-unless you count whisky. [5]
Every moment or two a straggler was added to my audience; and before I got to the head of the island I had fifteen or twenty people assembled down there under my nose. [5]
The tables had turned since leaving the island, and the senator held it in his power to ruin our one remaining chance of escape. [9]
There is a tradition that Island 37 was one of the principal abiding places of the once celebrated 'Murel's Gang. [5]
He got in touch with a few artists and began to paint, doing little scenes in the Bowery and of the night-life of New York, and visiting the Hudson River and Long Island for landscape and seascape sketches. [11]
So then I took the bearings of a woody island that was down the river a piece, and as soon as it was fairly dark I crept out with my raft and went for it, and hid it there, and then turned in. [5]
The nearest land, to the northwest, is the larger island of Ischia, distant nearly as far as Naples; yet Capri has the effect of being anchored off the bay to guard the entrance. [4]
He has been to the new island St. Thomas, but he says he thinks things are unsettled there. [5]
When I went to the Island of Jersey, in 1897, it was to shake myself free of what might become a mere obsession. [11]
Two humming-birds belonging to the genus Eustephanus, both beautifully coloured, inhabit the small island of Juan Fernandez, and have always been ranked as specifically distinct. [1]
Presently Orion seemed to rise out of the clouds, as a diver comes up from the water, and make for the shore of the island on which George and the other two seemed to be standing. [10]
It naturally seemed to Napoleon that the war was caused by England's intrigues (as in fact he said on the island of St. Helena). [2]
Then we went to Ischia, but I had already been to that island and tired myself to death "resting" a couple of days and studying human villainy, with the landlord of the Grande Sentinelle for a model. [5]
The only monument to his memory existing is a shabby little marble shaft erected on the southerly summit of Star Island, one of the Isles of Shoals. [4]
The slight bridge to Goat Island appeared more presumptuous by daylight, and the sharp slope of the rapids above it gave a new sense of the impetuosity of the torrent. [4]
Two hundred men to be ready to leave Governor's Island in New York. [7]
With a view to attracting free settlers to that penal colony, M. Feillet, the Governor, forcibly expropriated the Kanaka cultivators from the best of their plantations, with a derisory compensation, in spite of the protests of the Council General of the island. [5]
Well, by this time I was most down to the foot of the island. [5]
Ye're jest in time for the barbecue on the island. [9]
This practice prevails throughout the American continent from Vancouver's Island in the north to Tierra del Fuego in the south. [1]
We struck down through the chute of Island No. [5]
As it was through his mediation that the kings of the island were allowed to retain their crowns, they will be willing to listen to his advice. [10]
The water was three or four foot deep on the island in the low places and on the Illinois bottom. [5]
The island was three mile long. [5]
There are a thousand of them, and they can lay waste this island, if they get going. [11]
We have in this island one of the worst criminals in the British Empire. [11]
For living on this island is not unlike being on shipboard at sea, except that this rock does not heave about in a nauseous way. [4]
To think that this fort on the island should be in the hands of the enemy. [10]
The place of this classic meeting was probably on the west coast of Corfu, that incomparable island, to whose beauty the legend of the exquisite maidenhood of the daughter of the king of the Phaeacians has added an immortal bloom. [4]
You come to think, after a time, that the island is not natural rock, but a mass of masonry. [4]
And how could they have foreseen that a detective was on his way to the island? [9]
The fact that they belonged to this stock clearly shews that they inhabited the Old World; but not Australia nor any oceanic island, as we may infer from the laws of geographical distribution. [1]
Still another of these young ladies I saw for the first time in an open boat, tossing on the ocean ground-swell, a mile or two from shore, off a lonely island. [6]
The Afton came there on the 5th and lay at Rock Island until next morning. [7]
On the island there is a sense of home, which one misses on this promontory, the fascination of which, no less strong, is that of a southern beauty, whose charms conquer rather than win. [4]
Every real person--for there are persons as there are fruits that have no distinguishing flavor, mere gooseberries--has a distinct quality, and the finding it is always like the discovery of a new island to the voyager. [4]
Louisville was even then bursting with importance, and as I rode into it, one bright November day, I remembered the wilderness I had seen here not ten years gone when I had marched hither with Captain Harrod's company to join Clark on the island. [9]
They rather lent themselves to the humor of the hour, and probably by their demeanor encouraged the respect for the day on Cape Breton Island. [4]
One man owns the whole island, and of right is 'the man without a country. [5]
As they passed the western point of the island, and made their course easterly by a channel between rocky bulwarks opening Havre Gosselin, they suddenly saw a brig rounding the Eperquerie. [11]
There, eastward lay the well-wooded Island of Orleans, and over all the clear sun and sky, enlivened by a crisp and cheering air. [11]
Honora found in the very atmosphere a certain magic which she did not try to define, but to the enjoyment of which she abandoned herself; and in those first days after her arrival she took a sheer delight in driving about the island. [9]
It lay between the upper and lower divisions of the Union forces, and kept them separate, until a junction was finally effected across the Missouri neck of land; but the island being itself joined to that neck now, the wide river is without obstruction. [5]
The capital of the United States is Long Island. [5]
Smoke rose through the tree-tops of the island opposite, and through the new gaps of its forest cabins could be seen. [9]
The militia and the town guard were in ominous force, and although his respect for the island military was not devout, a bullet from the musket of a fool might be as effective as one from Bonapend's-- as Napoleon Bonaparte was disdainfully called in Jersey. [11]
Just at dusk the steamer landed midway in the lake at Green Island, where the scenery is the boldest and most romantic; from the landing a park-like lawn, planted with big trees, slopes up to a picturesque hotel. [4]
We hunted for the spring everywhere, traversing the full length of the island (two or three miles), and crossing it twice--climbing ash-hills patiently, and then sliding down the other side in a sitting posture, plowing up smothering volumes of gray dust. [5]
Not far from the spot where it lay nearest to the river was the bridge of boats connecting Memphis with the island of Rodah. [10]
It was called the Serpent Island, though the inhabitants had long since rid it of these dangerous guests, which lived in great numbers in the neighbouring cliffs. [10]
I have withdrawn the Sandwich Island book--it would be useless to publish it in these dull publishing times. [5]
You come down the river the other side of the island, then turn and come up to the town; that is, in high water: in low water you can't come up, but must land some distance below it. [5]
He thought of the present, and he wrote: "Wave walls to seaward, Storm-clouds to leeward, Beaten and blown by the winds of the West; Sail we encumbered Past isles unnumbered, But never to greet the green island of Rest. [11]
The fact of the pied birds being pursued and persecuted with much clamour by the other ravens of the island was the chief cause which led Brunnich to conclude that they were specifically distinct; but this is now known to be an error. [1]
Towards midnight, when the occupants of all the state-rooms were supposed to be in profound slumber, there was an invasion of the small cabin by a large and loquacious family, who had been making an excursion on the island railway. [4]
It's pay-day in the lumber-yards on the Island, so please come. [11]
He wrote to the Long Island farmer. [4]
His argument to the local authorities was that I had no rights, that I am a murderer and a mutineer, and confined to the island, though not on parole. [11]
He was watching the lights of a ship that slowly made its way down the river among the canoes, and his eyes never left it till it had passed beyond the island of Orleans and was lost in the night. [11]
Small wonder that the lad on the hill grinned, for the man who ran to rescue his hat from the stream was none other than the Bailly of the island, next in importance to the Lieutenant-Governor. [11]

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