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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

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

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

The fleet of canoes passed them by, paddling strong for the isle.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

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

Two years ago a small independent shop in Sanday - one of Orkney's north isles - inadvertently ordered 720 Easter Eggs, rather than the 80 the owner wanted.

From BBC ● Mar. 30, 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

These were the Hands, a pair of lonely isles that reach their mountain-fingers northward toward the Kargad Lands.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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

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

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 Thomas Hardy

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