isle

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

He plays the role of Viking leader Stoick, in the Dean DeBlois-directed story of a conflict between dragons and Vikings on the fictions isle of Berk.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2025

Three days out from Soders they came, following sea-birds and shore-wrack, to Pelimer, a small isle humped high above the high grey seas.

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

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

The weather made it impossible to get a sun sight, but Worsley’s best guess put Clarence and Elephant isles about thirty or forty miles north.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

You are isled from accustomed cares and worries -- you are set in a peculiar nook of rest.

From Pagan Papers by Kenneth Grahame

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

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

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