Use islands in a sentence
Sentences ending with islands
- They were connected with each other by colonnades, or by little bridges, under which flowed canals, that watered the gardens and gave the palace-grounds the aspect of a town built on islands. [10]
- I know now what Homer means by "wandering islands. [4]
- Stiff breeze, and we are fairly flying--dead ahead of it --and toward the islands. [5]
- Bishop of Arathea, Vicar-Apostolic of the Hawaiian Islands. [5]
- This concludes Mark Twain's personal letters from the islands. [5]
- Its author continued to win a more or less precarious livelihood doing miscellaneous work, until March, 1866, when he was employed by the Sacramento Union to contribute a series of letters from the Sandwich Islands. [5]
- It is easy to perceive that Cambyses, once lord of Egypt, will stretch out his rapacious hand over your beautiful Hellas and its islands. [10]
- It is said they are of those that lived at the Pole, before the sea swamped the Isthmus, and swallowed up so many islands. [11]
- The adventurers on the James hoped they could follow the stream to highlands that looked off upon the South Sea, a new route to India and the Spice Islands. [4]
- I finally decided that he had taken it because convenient, and because he believed Asquith to be more remote from the East than the Sandwich Islands. [9]
Short sentences using islands
- O Islands 1692! [4]
Sentences containing islands two or more times
- When we compare the differences in stature between the Polynesian chiefs and the lower orders within the same islands, or between the inhabitants of the fertile volcanic and low barren coral islands of the same ocean (18. [1]
- The Sandwich Islands remain my ideal of the perfect thing in the matter of tropical islands. [5]
- There is a noble and beautiful view of ocean and islands and castellated peaks from the governor's high-placed house, and its immediate surroundings lie drowsing in that dreamy repose and serenity which are the charm of life in the Pacific Islands. [5]
- Look on the map and follow the shores of these peninsulas and islands, the bays, the penetrating arms of the sea, the harbors filled with islands, the protected straits and sounds. [4]
- There was much interest just at this time in the Sandwich Islands, and he was selected by the foremost Sacramento paper to spy out the islands and report aspects and conditions there. [5]
- It was, of course, a delightful sail, abounding in charming views, up "lost channels," through vistas of gleaming water overdrooped by tender foliage, and now and then great stretches of sea, and always islands, islands. [4]
More example sentences with the word islands in them
- And above Winona you'll have lovely prairies; and then come the Thousand Islands, too beautiful for anything; green? [5]
- The eastern coast, with its ragged outline of bays, headlands, indentations, islands, capes, and sand-spits, from Watch Hill, a favorite breezy resort, to Mount Desert, presents an almost continual chain of hotels and summer cottages. [4]
- He probably brought with him in 1610 his wife, who gave birth to his daughter Bermuda, born on the Somers Islands at the time of the shipwreck. [4]
- They passed one winter yachting among the islands in the eastern Mediterranean; a part of another sailing from one tropical paradise to another in the West Indies. [4]
- We can see why it is that aborigines, who have long inhabited islands, and who must have been long exposed to nearly uniform conditions, should be specially affected by any change in their habits, as seems to be the case. [1]
- En didn't you whoop, en didn't I whoop, tell we got mix' up in de islands en one un us got los' en t'other one was jis' as good as los', 'kase he didn' know whah he wuz? [5]
- Forty-seven years later, when I was in the islands, Kainehameha V. was trying to repair Liholiho's blunder, and not succeeding. [5]
- Then, from the wharves, I saw the bay dotted with islands, their white sand sparkling in the evening light, and fringed with strange trees, and beyond, of a deepening blue, the ocean. [9]
- We estimate that we are within seven hundred miles of the Sandwich Islands, and that our average, daily, is somewhat over a hundred miles, so that our hopes have some foundation in reason. [5]
- In the Virginia waters he had left a cluster of islands bearing his name also. [4]
- 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]
- They said he was in the Islands for his health; was a preacher; his home, Michigan. [5]
- Kamehameha went to war, and in the course of ten years he whipped out all the other kings and made himself master of every one of the nine or ten islands that form the group. [5]
- The islands were visited by Cook in 1779, Vancouver in 1794, and often subsequently by whalers. [1]
- Burlingame and Van Valkenburgh were on their way to their posts, and their coming to the islands just at this time proved a most important circumstance to Mark Twain. [5]
- They had passed us as we came down, for we had sailed inside some islands of the coast, getting shelter and better passage, and the fleet had, no doubt, passed outside. [11]
- If the New United States Minister to the Sandwich Islands (Hon. [5]
- With the strong trade we have, I hope that a week from Sunday will put us in sight of the Sandwich Islands, if we are not safe by that time by being picked up. [5]
- They were gathered together in little settlements on neighboring islands, and paternally cared for by the Government, and instructed in religion, and deprived of tobacco, because the superintendent of the Sunday-school was not a smoker, and so considered smoking immoral. [5]
- The Vesuvius of today is a very poor affair compared to the mighty volcano of Kilauea, in the Sandwich Islands, but I am glad I visited it. [5]
- We can go to the West Indian Islands, to the British fleet there. [11]
- It was conveyed to him later by letters of commendation from the Governor that he should be free to go anywhere in the islands and to see whatever was to be seen, from convict prison to Hotel Dieu. [11]
- See, with respect to birds on oceanic islands, my 'Journal of Researches during the Voyage of the "Beagle,"' 1845, p. 398. [1]
- There does seem to be a prodigious lot of islands this year; the map of this region is freckled and fly-specked all over with them. [5]
- Dolby announced him to appear at the Queen's Concert Rooms, Hanover Square, for the week of October 13-18, his lecture to be the old Sandwich Islands talk that seven years before had brought him his first success. [5]
- It is a time when one is filled with vague longings; when one dreams of flight to peaceful islands in the remote solitudes of the sea, or folds his hands and says, What is the use of struggling, and toiling and worrying any more? [5]
- A peaceful place, this Whykokomagh; the lapsing waters of Bras d'Or made a summer music all along the quiet street; the bay lay smiling with its islands in front, and an amphitheater of hills rose behind. [4]
- Regaining the carriage, they drove out to the end, Agassiz's Point, where, when the mist lifted, they saw the sea all round dotted with sails, the irregular coasts and islands with headlands and lighthouses, all the picture still, land and water in a summer swoon. [4]
- The first of them were drawn from Australia and the islands of the southern Pacific, where I had lived and roamed in the middle and late eighties. [11]
- Cook remarks that the superiority in personal appearance "which is observable in the erees or nobles in all the other islands (of the Pacific) is found in the Sandwich Islands"; but this may be chiefly due to their better food and manner of life. [1]
- Like islands in the shining yellow sea, are houses--sometimes in a clump of trees, sometimes only like bare-backed domesticity or naked industry in the workfield. [11]
- I saw in the Sandwich Islands, once, a picture copied by a talented German artist from an engraving in one of the American illustrated papers. [5]
- He never finished the Sandwich Islands story which he and Howells were to dramatize later. [5]
- That is what the nations practise in the islands of the South Seas. [11]
- He told me the names of dim capes and shadowy islands as we glided by them in the solemnity of the night, under the winking stars, and by and by got to talking about himself. [5]
- I was in the islands to write letters for the weekly edition of the Sacramento 'Union,' a rich and influential daily journal which hadn't any use for them, but could afford to spend twenty dollars a week for nothing. [5]
- The terrors of the hurricane which dispersed the fleet, and this shipwreck, were much dwelt upon by the writers of the time, and the Bermudas became a sort of enchanted islands, or realms of the imagination. [4]
- Although some of the cottages were vacated, and the display was not so extensive as in August, it was still marvelously beautiful, and the night voyage around the illuminated islands was something long to be remembered. [4]
- He sailed for the Chincha Islands in command of a guano ship. [5]
- Aunt Susan brought the bride from the islands, accompanied her across our continent, and had the happiness of witnessing the rapturous meeting between an adoring husband and wife who had never seen each other until that moment. [5]
- Perhaps it was the bountiful impetus he gave to the commerce of Honolulu, and the fact that he talked of buying up a portion of one of the Islands for sugar-planting, that induced the King to be gracious to him. [11]
- The islands multiplied; the boat wound in and out among them in narrow straits. [4]
- By and by the Bermuda Islands were easily visible. [5]
- The irregular coastlines, the bays and harbors, the near islands and mainlands invited to the sea. [4]
- When I visited the Bay of Islands in 1835, the dress and food of the inhabitants had already been much modified: they raised potatoes, maize, and other agricultural produce, and exchanged them for English manufactured goods and tobacco. [1]
- Till late in the afternoon they cruised about among the islands, getting different points of view of the coast, and especially different points of view of each other, in the freedom of talk and repartee permitted on an excursion. [4]
- Sulivan informs me that, when he lived in the Falkland Islands, he imported a young English stallion, which frequented the hills near Port William with eight mares. [1]
- The result is, that no horse has a chance to eat, drink, rest, recuperate, or look well or feel well, and so strangers go about the Islands mounted as I was to-day. [5]
- It is true that in the Sandwich Islands and in Egypt there is greater mental serenity, less perturbation of spirit, less worry, than in the changeable United States. [4]
- It is more than two hundred miles west of the Revillagigedo Islands, so they are quite out of the question against the trades, rigged as this boat is. [5]
- We were early taught to skate, too, and how many happy hours we passed, frequently with our sisters, on the ice by the Louisa and Rousseau Islands in the Thiergarten! [10]
- When the sun sunk down--the one intruder from other realms and persistent in suggestions of them--it was tranced luxury to sit in the perfumed air and forget that there was any world but these enchanted islands. [5]
- Some writers have suggested that the aborigines of islands have suffered in fertility and health from long continued inter-breeding; but in the above cases infertility has coincided too closely with the arrival of Europeans for us to admit this explanation. [1]
- As they paddled slowly along this lake, keeping time to their songs with the paddles, there suddenly grew out of the distance a great flotilla of canoes with tall prows, and behind them a range of islands which they had not before seen. [11]
- She was dismally slow; still, we often had pretty exciting times racing with islands, and rafts, and such things. [5]
- On the port side sat the Reverend in the seat of honor; the pale young man next to him; I next; next to me an aged Bermudian, returning to his sunny islands after an absence of twenty-seven years. [5]
- The islands where she was born were in themselves so miniature that the minds of their people, however small, were not made to feel insignificant. [11]
- For New Zealand, see the voyage of the "Novara," and for the Aleutian Islands, Muller, as quoted by Houzeau, 'Les Facultes Mentales,' etc., tom. [1]
- The islands offer scarcely any other opportunity for bathing, unless one dare take a plunge off the rocks. [4]
- We left the, Sandwich Islands eight or ten days--or twelve days ago--I don't know which, I have been so hard at work until today (at least part of each day,) that the time has slipped away almost unnoticed. [5]
- We hired a sailboat and a guide and made an excursion to one of the small islands in the harbor to visit the Castle d'If. [5]
- It has been roughly estimated by those best capable of judging, that when Cook discovered the Islands in 1779, the population amounted to about 300,000. [1]
- A rickety ladder rose to a kind of tower (cupola, I suppose it would be called), whence the bay spread out before me like a picture, the white islands edged with the whiter lacing of the waves. [9]
- Outlines seemed merged, rocks did not look the same, whirlpools had a different vortex, islands of stone had a new configuration. [11]
- Most of the remnants survive on islands, such as Madagascar and the Malayan archipelago, where they have not been exposed to so severe a competition as they would have been on well-stocked continents. [1]
- I am to remain there a month and ransack the islands, the great cataracts and the volcanoes completely, and write twenty or thirty letters to the Sacramento Union--for which they pay me as much money as I would get if I staid at home. [5]
- In 1866 I read Dr. Holmes's poems, in the Sandwich Islands. [5]
- The 'Hornet' survivors reached the Sandwich Islands the 15th of June. [5]
- He has made rafts or canoes for fishing or crossing over to neighbouring fertile islands. [1]
- The difference in quality between the Quaker City letters and those written from the Sandwich Islands only a year before can scarcely be measured. [5]
- The islands of Procida and Ischia continue and complete this side of the bay, which is about twenty miles long as the boat sails. [4]
- He was in prison four years, and since then he has been a mutineer, a treasure-hunter, a planter, and a saviour of these islands! [11]
- The river consequently presents an animated appearance in the season, and the prettiest effects are produced by the white sails dipping about among the green islands. [4]
- I hope and pray we can make out to reach the islands before we get to this strait; but we have one or two desperate men aboard, though they are quiet enough now. [5]
- Now, by his physician's advice, he went back to those balmy islands. [5]
- Bear Creek--so called, perhaps, because it was always so particularly bare of bears--is hidden out of sight now, under islands and continents of piled lumber, and nobody but an expert can find it. [5]
- Deep silence brooded over the water and the green islands which rose like oases from its glittering surface. [10]
- Little islands, like outworks before it, crouched slumberously to the sea, as a dog lays its head in its paws and hugs the ground close, with vague, soft-blinking eyes. [11]
- About seven o'clock one blistering hot morning--for it was now dead summer time--Higbie and I took the boat and started on a voyage of discovery to the two islands. [5]
- At the time of this letter, Stoddard had decided that in the warm light and comfort of the Sandwich Islands he could survive on his literary earnings. [5]
- Hence, the beginning of their great industries, which made England rich in proportion as her authority and chance of trade expanded over distant islands and continents. [4]
- Sicily is one of the Sandwich Islands. [5]
- Near the mouth of the river several islands were missing--washed away. [5]
- A pied variety of the raven, with the head, breast, abdomen, and parts of the wings and tail- feathers white, is confined to the Feroe Islands. [1]
- The languorous life of the islands exactly suited Mask Twain. [5]
- The wild horse of the Falkland Islands and of the Western States of N. America is polygamous, but, except in his greater size and in the proportions of his body, differs but little from the mare. [1]
- Marshal and Sheriffs of the different Islands. [5]
- No other part of the country originates so many excellent fish stories as the Sixteen Hundred and Ninety-two Islands, and King had heard so many of them that he suspected there must be fish in these waters. [4]
- The northwest side of the bay, keeping a general westerly direction, is very uneven, with headlands, deep bays, and outlying islands. [4]
- During the months of July and August this broad river, with its fantastic islands, is at night simply a highway of glory. [4]
- In a census of all the islands in 1850 (98. [1]
- The explorers were now assailed with violent storms, and at last took refuge for two days on some uninhabited islands, which by reason of the ill weather and the hurly-burly of thunder, lightning, wind, and rain, they called "Limbo. [4]
- This, with what nourishment we can get from boot-legs and such chewable matter, we hope will enable us to weather it out till we get to the Sandwich Islands, or, sailing in the meantime in the track of vessels thither bound, be picked up. [5]
- I had a note-book that fairly bristled with the names of towns, 'points,' bars, islands, bends, reaches, etc. [5]
- The town did not seem safe; the bridges, the buildings on the edge of the precipices with their shaking casements, the islands, might at any moment be engulfed and disappear. [4]
- If we do not find those islands we would do well to prepare for anything. [5]
- If he failed, no matter; he would be in a better position to make those other islands. [5]
- I hain't seen no fog, nor no islands, nor no troubles, nor nothing. [5]
- So we were nearing Honolulu, the capital city of the Sandwich Islands--those islands which to me were Paradise; a Paradise which I had been longing all those years to see again. [5]
- Many memories of my former visit to the islands came up in my mind while we lay at anchor in front of Honolulu that night. [5]
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