25526 examples of island in sentences

It's down in Evergreen Bay, on Long Island.

FIRST HUNT Young Travers, who had been engaged to a girl down on Long Island for the last three months, only met her father and brother a few weeks before the day set for the wedding.

"I'm sure I never posed as being clever," he said, "and finding a lost dog with all Long Island to pick and choose from isn't a particularly easy thing to pull off successfully, I should think.

She had thought she would nurse the sick and visit the prisoners on the Island, and bring cleanliness and hope into miserable lives, but she found that this was the work of women tried in the service, who understood it, and who made her first serve her apprenticeship by reading the German Bible to old women whose eyes were dim, but who were as hopelessly clean and quite as self-respecting in their way as herself.

Neither was the thought that she was to spend her summer making working-girls happy on a farm on Long Island.

And the tramps and good-for-nothings, just back from the Island, had an animated, expectant look, as though something certainly was going to happen.

" His sentence was thirty days in default of three hundred dollars, and by two o'clock he was on the boat to the Island, and by three he had discarded the blue shirt and red suspenders of an iceman for the gray stiff cloth of a prisoner.

At the northern end of the Island the grass runs high, and there are no houses of any sort upon it.

He stopped struggling, that he might gain fresh strength, and let the current bear him where it would, until he saw that it was carrying him swiftly to the shore and to the rocks of the Island.

Then he raised his head and glanced across at the big black Island, where lights were still moving about on the shore, and whistled softly.

"You'll send me to the Island?"

"I guess I'm even with that cop now," said Hefty as he stood at the door of the studio building perspiring and happy; "but if them cops ever find out who the Black Knight was, I'll go away for six months on the Island.

Taking advantage of the troubles in Sicily, Garibaldi led a small expedition to that island, which there landed, and began those operations which had their appropriate termination, in five months, in the addition of all the territories of the wretched Francis II., except Gaëta, to the dominions of the Sardinian King.

If Austrian ships had not prevented him from landing in Sicily, Austrian troops would have destroyed him in that island.

For some time past, rumor has been busy in attributing to him the design of demanding the island of Sardinia.

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He improved the time of his quarantine at Staten Island by exploring its mineralogy and geology, where he experienced a kind and appreciating reception from the health officer, Dr. De Witt.

When a little below Parkersburgh, we passed Blennerhasset's Island, which recalled for a moment the name of Aaron Burr, and the eloquent language of Mr. Wirt on the treasonable schemes of that bold, talented, but unchastened politician.

It would appear as if half a century had intervened, so thorough had been the physical revolution of the island.

[Footnote 3: The original name of Rhode Island.]

Robinson Crusoe, on his lonely island, was a capitalist as well as a laborer and a land-holder.

In New England, Eastport (Moose Island) and Nantucket Island quickly fell.

Blockade of the coast south of Rhode Island.

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