See, away down the lake, that little island with its half dozen spruce trees, clustered together!

I had tolerable good luck in the forenoon, and landed on a rocky island to cook dinner.

Left and right from it there are as many as one hundred small islands, distant from one another ten, twenty, or even two hundred li; but all subject to the large island.

Blanche bore the journey well and did not give way to despair even when they discovered that they were on an uninhabited island.

His allies, then, were Italy, Gaul, Spain, Illyricum, the Libyans,both those who had long since accepted Roman sway (except those about Cyrene), and those that had belonged to Bogud and Bocchus,Sardinia, Sicily, and the rest of the islands adjacent to the aforementioned divisions of the mainland.

They come up in the night, these volcanic islands.

Taking off my turban I bound myself securely to it with the linen in the hope that the roc, when it took flight next morning, would bear me away with it from the desolate island.

He grew morose and melancholy, even wicked, for at times he blamed Providence, first for casting him away on this lonely island, and lastly for taking from him the companion he had failed to appreciate, until he felt her loss; but soon he turned to God and prayed for light.

The city of Venice stands on a cluster of low sandy islands.

Having thus explored the four principal islands of the Ionian Archipeligo.

Many thousands of miles were traversed by him in the mission ship The Southern Cross, visiting the numerous islands of the Pacific known as Polynesia or Melanesia.

Everybody was gazing eagerly at a narrow, mountainous island lying slate-coloured across the early morning.

Thus, I think, we have got first from the known to the unknown; from a tropic coral island back here to the limestone hills of Great Britain; and I did not speak at random when I said that I was not leading you away as far as you fancied by several thousand miles.

He also repeated to me a Latin ode he had composed in one of the western islands, from which he had lately returned.

In tropical countries, this order furnishes the inhabitants with a large portion of their food, which, even in the most arid deserts and most barren islands, is of the finest quality.

This beautiful bay is always calm, for even the narrow strait which connects it with the open water is divided by a rocky, but wooded island, shutting out alike the winds and the waves from disturbing its repose.

Oh, George, George, with a head uniformly wrong and a heart uniformly right, that I had power and might equal to my wishes; then would I call the gentry of thy native island, and they should come in troops, flocking at the sound of thy prospectus-trumpet, and crowding who shall be first to stand in thy list of subscribers!

And it came to pass that he landed with others on a lovely island, and lay down to sleep, after he had eaten many delicious fruits.

This doubt, of whether the sea lies within the land or not, probably refers to the numerous inlets or fiords along the whole coast of Norway and Finmark, and may mean, that he did not examine whether the land might not be parcelled out into innumerable islands.

"Flora and fauna of some unknown island would be much more in the Schermerhorn line of traffic.

But now the fire had widened its path, and is enveloping the tiny island.

How it got there; how so strange a type of creature should have died out over the rest of the world, and yet have lasted on in that remote island for long ages, ever since the days of the New Red sandstone, is one of those questionsquite awful questions I consider themwith which I will not puzzle my readers.

Everybody was gazing eagerly at a narrow, mountainous island lying slate-coloured across the early morning.

The land of Sorani, which lay over against Scotland, naturally suggested the Suderoe, or southern islands of the Norwegians, now called the Western Islands or Hebrides.

It was the Elderly Naval Man, you recallthe two of them being the ship's sole survivors on the deserted island, and both of them lean with hungerit was the Elderly Naval Man (the villain of the piece) who "ups with his heels, and smothers his squeals in the scum of the boiling broth.