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Example sentences for "islet"

Lexicographically close words:
islands; islandske; islandwide; isled; isles; islets; isme; isms; isna; isnt
  1. He knew of the Isle of Ascension, and the lone islet of Saint Paul's.

  2. Once we saw looming right under our prow a little islet with a tuft of fir-trees crowning it--the whole worthy to be made the head-piece or tail-piece to some poem on solitude.

  3. No valley so deep, no islet so lone, But his shadow is cast, and his victims are known.

  4. Instead of a steamer, he saw a rocky islet sticking up sharp and clear, half a point on the starboard bow, about three miles off.

  5. The yacht lost way rapidly, and lay quite still with the islet exactly abeam, half a mile off, as the captain had calculated.

  6. We left the islet about ten o'clock, and at midnight were still in the morass, unable to move.

  7. The islet was quite bare of trees, and was so small that Alzura pretended he could not stretch his legs comfortably for fear of slipping into the water.

  8. The sergeant in charge of the islet was a good-humoured fellow.

  9. Behind the little islet which the boat was then skirting stretched a long sand-bar which the tide, then ebbing, was beginning to uncover.

  10. The movement given to the rudder by Meroë made the boat approach so close to the rocky islet that she and her husband both leaped on it.

  11. From the nebulous mass,--which seen through the glasses proved to be an islet very like the one over which they had just passed--a column of smoke was certainly rising.

  12. The air-ship circled about the islet under Frank's skilled control while the youthful aerial navigators scanned it with eager eyes.

  13. At the distance they then were from the islet it was unlikely that their presence in the air had been noted.

  14. There still remained one bit of business to be done and both Frank and Harry anticipated some little trouble over it--this was the retention of Quatty as their guide to the 'glade islet on which the abductors had set up their plant.

  15. He pointed to a small islet a couple of points to the southward of the course on which they were heading.

  16. Round this artificial islet or crannoge thus formed was a stone wall raised on oak piles.

  17. In Ardekillin Lake, in Roscommon, an islet of an oval form was observed, made of a layer of stones resting on logs of timber.

  18. So that is how Ninia, the widow of the wandering white man, and her two daughters and their friend came to live at the little islet called Takai.

  19. But it was the northernmost islet that chiefly appealed to George.

  20. When the lad was about fifteen years old he was given to the care of a holy man, with whom he lived on the islet called Ile-Verte.

  21. An islet in the Firth of Forth, 359 BATZ.

  22. On the highest point of Whale Island, which is a steep islet just offshore near the present village of St. Michael, were the ruins of a kashim and of several houses.

  23. The sea has encroached upon the islet until a portion of the land formerly occupied by the village has been washed away.

  24. The speaker was devouring the islet with his eyes.

  25. There were no huts upon the coast, no smoke arose in the distance to indicate that Bennet Islet was inhabited.

  26. Not a single little islet was to be seen in the position he had indicated, although the look-out was most carefully kept.

  27. But,” I remarked, “this plank must have been cast upon Bennet Islet from a wreck!

  28. But William Guy had not found any trace of human beings there, and what I saw of the islet answered to the description given by Arthur Pym.

  29. The islet was strewn with remains (probably of those domestic animals mentioned in Arthur Pym’s journal), but these bones differed from the bones on Tsalal Island by the fact that the heaps dated from a few months only.

  30. It is an island of a league in circumference, to which the name of Bennet Islet was given, in honour of the captain’s partner in the ownership of the Jane.

  31. Then that will be Bennet Islet or Tsalal Island, provided there are any taverns in those savage islands, and any Atkinses to keep them.

  32. Christmas Harbour belongs to the most important islet of the archipelago, one that is about half as large as Corsica.

  33. Now, however, nothing in the nature of a surprise could well occur, for by the destruction of the barrack we were enabled to obtain an uninterrupted view from the battery all over the diminutive islet upon which it stood.

  34. Still, up to noon, though the behaviour of the natives had been steadily growing more suspicious and unsatisfactory, no actual hostile demonstration had been made; and we landed upon a small bare, sandy islet to cook and despatch our dinner.

  35. This rocky islet passed, the sea went down; once more we neared Hamora's western shore.

  36. This princely quarrel originated, it seems, in a slight jostling concerning the proprietorship of a barren islet in a very remote quarter of the lagoon.

  37. Half a cable length from the shore, a tiny, palm-clad islet floated on that shining lake, and the drooping fronds of the palms cast their shadows upon the crystal water.

  38. Close inshore, between the islet and the promontory, it was said they would swallow a man in four minutes and a half; but there may have been little ground for this precision.

  39. For some time the girl remained where he had left her, looking out past the islet and over the bright sea.

  40. Close by the islet a schooner yacht lay-to, and a well-manned boat was pulling vigorously for the shore.

  41. When the hill was open of the islet to the north, vessels must bear well to the eastward to clear Graden Ness and the Graden Bullers.

  42. There in the morning light they saw the broken lock with a weir beside it, and over the weir a tumble of flashing water; an islet or two, red with stalks of loosestrife; a swan bathing in the channel between.

  43. An Island or Islet in the Bristol Channel--'" "Ah!

  44. On the capture of Islet aux Ramieres, or Pigeon Island, the Admiral sailed with the rest of his fleet from Ance d'Arlet on Wednesday, Feb.

  45. Lieutenant Thompson of the Boyne, was sent with the launch to take the men out of her; in doing which he was exposed to a severe fire from a battery on Islet a Couchon, or Hog Island; but he succeeded in removing them without any loss.

  46. Pigeon Island, or Islet aux Ramieres, is situated on the south side of the bay of Fort Royal, about two hundred yards from the shore, and is a steep rock, inaccessible except on one side by a ladder fixed against a perpendicular wall.

  47. The Governor, with forty cavalry and sixty infantry, was conducted by him up stream; and the Indians who were in the canoes discovered the cacique of Pacaha on an islet between two arms of the river.


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