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Islay

noun

California evergreen wild plum with spiny leathery leaves and white flowers. Synonyms: evergreen cherry, holly-leaf cherry, holly-leaved cherry, Prunus ilicifolia.

An island of western Scotland at the southern end of the Inner Hebrides.

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"Islay" Quotes from Famous Books

... wish ye could have heard my father's stories about the auld fights of the Mac-Dingawaies—that's the Bertrams that now is—wi' the Irish, and wi' the Highlanders, that came here in their berlings from Islay and Cantire—and how they went to the Holy Land-that is, to Jerusalem and Jericho, wi' a' their clan at their heels—they had better have gaen to Jamaica, like Sir Thomas Kittlecourt's uncle—and how they ...

— Guy Mannering • Sir Walter Scott

... England, as Astorga was termed sole Marquis of Spain, was absent, being a Jacobite; so that there were only five marquises, of whom the premier was Lindsay, and the junior Lothian; seventy-nine earls, of whom Derby was premier and Islay junior; nine viscounts, of whom Hereford was premier and Lonsdale junior; and sixty-two barons, of whom Abergavenny was premier and Hervey junior. Lord Hervey, the junior baron, was what was called the "Puisne of the House." Derby, of whom Oxford, Shrewsbury, ...

— The Man Who Laughs • Victor Hugo

... Islay, brought up with me in the house of my aunt, the Cacica, who went back and forth to her with messages to the Place of the Silences, and him I drove by my anger to lead the Spaniards that way. But as he went he feared her anger coming to meet him more than he feared mine that waited him ...

— The Trail Book • Mary Austin et al

Words linked to "Islay" : wild plum, holly-leaf cherry, Prunus ilicifolia, evergreen cherry, island, Inner Hebrides, holly-leaved cherry, wild plum tree