isle
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She first flew from San Francisco to Tahiti and then onwards to the isle of Mangareva in outer French Polynesia.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
Based in the British-owned isle of Jersey, CoinShares previously traded on Nasdaq Stockholm in Sweden.
From Barron's ● Apr. 2, 2026
The two homes sit on 1.2 acres on the popular vacation isle: a 5,200-square-foot main residence and a two-bedroom guesthouse.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2025
In the new film, the duo head to the isle of Capri, where Lively’s character is about to marry a wealthy Italian businessman.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2025
“I will meet him on the isle Barri for the wedding, nine days from now. Go and tell him.”
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
But a string of helpers from the animal kingdom, including eagles, a hedgehog, a red squirrel and a flock of geese, were seen delivering the letter down the British isles.
From BBC ● May 8, 2026
Searching out the echoes of the Celtic foundation, Mr. Robb expresses the current mood of the isles and Western Europe more broadly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
At the very least, it has gorgeous shots of the sun-soaked Greek isles.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2025
Shetland Islands Council says it is pushing ahead with plans to build tunnels to four outlying isles in the archipelago including Unst, the most northerly place in the UK.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2025
“Ironmen from the isles, wildlings from beyond the Wall... and now this traitor lord with his outlaws, rebels, and sorcerers.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Nay, rather, isled amid the stream— Watching the flood—and, half in dream Guessing the sources whence it rose, And musing to what Deep it flows.
From The Poems of William Watson by Watson, William
What days could ever be so long As those our pristine Summers poised O'er a charmed valley isled among Their bright slow-breaking tides unnoised?
From King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? by Bottomley, Gordon
The aspect of the windows is nearly south, and the prospect includes the plain of the Marchfeld, with the isled Danube and Lobau in the extreme distance.
From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas
Here Rose and Magnolia Our dearest enshrine, The prayer of the south wind Is thine and is mine, For Child and for Mother Here sweetly twice isled, Brave Seamen are praying For Mother and Child.
From Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses by Campbell, John Douglas Sutherland
Tho’ all men else their nobler dreams forget, Confused by brainless mobs and lawless Powers; Thank Him who isled us here, and roughly set His Briton in blown seas and storming showers...
From Tennyson and His Friends by Various
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