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An Irish carpenter acquired the isle in Florida’s Lake Marion in the 1880s and built the main house by hand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

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

The 24-hour guard-gated island is home to fewer than 50 single-family homes—which occupy about three quarters of the isle, while the rest is home to a few condo buildings and hotels.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 2026

After checking he had not broken any bones, he hauled himself up and started heading in the direction of the Glen Rosa ferry terminal miles away, intending to travel off the isle.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026

We made our landfall on Aiolia Island, domain of Aiolos Hippotades, the wind king dear to the gods who never die—an isle adrift upon the sea, ringed round with brazen ramparts on a sheer cliffside.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

The contested isles are part of the volcanic Kuril archipelago, which runs in a broad arc from Russia's Kamchatka peninsula down to Japan's main northern island Hokkaido.

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

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

Even that took a certain courage, though; he could never return to the isles.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

For three days the heavens descended in a downpour that made the river a roaring torrent and isled the two log houses on their hillocks.

From The Emigrant Trail by Geraldine Bonner

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 William Watson

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 Gordon Bottomley

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

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 John Douglas Sutherland Campbell