"Isle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... S.E. We steered between the rippling and the breakers, but after hauling the ship off about half a mile, we had no soundings. The Prince Frederick passed very near the breakers, in the S.E., but had no soundings; yet these breakers are supposed to be dangerous. The middle of the isle of Sal is in lat. 16 deg. 55' N. long. 21 deg. 59' W.; the middle of Bonavista is in lat. 16 deg. ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 12 • Robert Kerr
... feelings of considerable anxiety that the Protector waited the return of Colonel Jones from the second task assigned him in the Isle ...
— The Buccaneer - A Tale • Mrs. S. C. Hall
... to console myself perhaps a little better for the captivity of the Spaniards than if I had really been one of them, as we drew nearer and nearer their prison isle, and it opened its knotty points and little ravines, overrun with sweet-fern, blueberry-bushes, bay, and low blackberry-vines, and rigidly traversed with a high stockade of yellow pine boards. Six or ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... Something ... something there is in this dusky, throttled byway that seems to be crawling into your blood. The road seems to slink before you; and you know that, once in, you can only get out by retracing your steps or crossing into the lost Isle of Dogs. Against the wrath of October cloud, little low shops peer at you. In the sharp shadows their lights fall like swords across your path. The shuttered gloom of the eastern side shows strangely menacing. Each whispering house seems an ...
— Nights in London • Thomas Burke
... acts and letters of the representatives on mission are classed by departments.—On the delegates of the representatives on mission, I will cite but one text. (Archives des Affaires etrangeres, vol. 333, letter of Garrigues, Auch, Pluviose 24, year II.): "A delegate of Dartigoyte goes to l'Isle and, in the popular club, wants the cure of the place to get rid of his priestly attributes. The man answers, so they tell me, that he would cheerfully abstain from his duties, but that, if, in addition to this, they used force he would appeal to the convention, which had no idea of interfering ...
— The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 4 (of 6) - The French Revolution, Volume 3 (of 3) • Hippolyte A. Taine
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