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:" and Plum
:" Leaving on our right hand Plum Island ( so-called on account of the rare Plums which doe grow upon it ), we struck into the open Sea ...."

:" and Island
In his Materials for a History of the Baptists in Rhode Island, Edwards wrote :" The first mover himself for it Baptist college in 1762 was laughed at as a projector of a thing impracticable.
The Dutch were the first Europeans to settle in the area on the western end of Long Island, also inhabited by a Native American people, the Lenape ( often referred to in contemporary colonial documents by the Lenape place-name for one of the larger native settlements :" Canarsee ").
:" No man is an Island, intire of it selfe ; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine ; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were ; any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde ; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls ; It tolls for thee.
:" Between Ortac, Verte Tête and Burhou Island, are scattered many dangerous rocks, and ledges among which the streams run with great velocity.
:" Island of the Blue Dolphins, though it is based upon the true story of a girl who lived alone on a California island for eighteen years, came from the memory of my years at San Pedro and Dead Man's Island, when, with other boys my age, I voyaged out on summer mornings in search of adventure.
:" The occurrence on Seymour Island of sudamericids, that had become extinct in South America in the Paleocene, also indicates that isolation may have allowed extended survival of this Gondwanan group in the Eocene of Antarctica and the factors that caused their extinction did not affect this continent.
:" Mona Island " redirects here.
:" Foula, or Fughley as it was once also known, means literally ' Bird Island ', with an estimated half million birds of various breeds sharing the rock with the inhabitants.
:" What can it matter to you ," said the general, " whether this Jew remains at Devil's Island or not?
:" The first three days of CSD-12 will serve as the preparatory meeting for the ten-year review of the Barbados Programme of Action ( BPoA ) for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States.
:" Those people from Queens and Staten Island and those places ," he said.
:" In 1871, many shepherds situation on the Falkland Island Company's main farm at Darwin were of Scottish origin, and members of the Free Kirk of Scotland.
:" Yotvata " is also the Hebrew name for Tiran Island.
:" in the Island Rona, called the Low-landers Chappel, because Seamen who dye in times of Fishing, are buried in that place.
:" Tank Island " redirect here.
:" From the North-western Corner of the North Inch, on the Right Bank of the River Tay, in a straight Line to the Bridge on the Mill Lead at the Boot of Balhousie ; thence in a straight Line to the Bridge on the Glasgow Road over the Scouring Burn ; thence in a straight Line to the Southern Corner of the Water Reservoir of the Dept ; thence in a straight Line to the Southern Corner of the Friarton Pier on the River Tay ; thence across the River Tay ( passing to the South of the Friarton Island ) to the Point at which the same is met by the Boundary of the respective Parishes of Kinfauns and Kinnoul ; thence, Northward, along the Boundary of the Parish of Kinfauns to the Point at which the several Boundaries of the Properties of Kinfauns, Kinnoul, and Barnhill meet ; thence in a straight Line to the North-eastern Corner of Lord Kinnoul's Lodge, at the Gate of Approach to Kinnoul Hill ; thence in a straight Line to the North-eastern Corner of the Enclosure of the Lunatic Asylum ; thence in a straight Line to the Point at which the Annatty Burn crosses the Blairgowrie Road ; thence down the Annatty Burn to the Point at which the same joins the River Tay ; thence in a straight Line to the Point first described.
:" When I was younger, I particularly enjoyed ' Our Island Story ' by Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall [...] It is written in a way that really captured my imagination and which nurtured my interest in the history of our great nation.

:" and wild
:" Birka is the main Geatish town ( oppidum Gothorum ), situated in the middle of Sweden ( Suevoniae ), not far ( non longe ) from the temple called Uppsala ( Ubsola ) which the Swedes ( Sueones ) held in the highest esteem when it comes to the worship of the gods ; here forms an inlet of the Baltic or the Barbaric Sea a port facing north which welcomes all the wild peoples all around this sea but which is risky for those who are careless or ignorant of such places ... they have therefore blocked this inlet of the troubled sea with hidden masses of rocks along more than 100 stadions ( 18 km ).
:" A wild story of a journalist who becomes manager of a station in the interior and makes himself worshipped by a tribe of savages.
Matthäus Merian described this event in 1642 as follows :" In 1430 the Hussites from Bohemia attacked / Culmbach and Barreut / and committed great acts of cruelty / like wild animals / against the common people / and certain individuals.
:" love of Dionysos, rode upon the back of a wild bull: He shouted boldly to the fullfaced Moon ( Mene )--‘ Give me best, Selene, horned driver of cattle!
:" But I was by this time so weary that I could have slept twelve hours at a stretch ; I had the taste of sleep in my throat ; my joints slept even when my mind was waking ; the hot smell of the heather, and the drone of the wild bees, were like possets to me ; and every now and again I would give a jump and find I had been dozing.
:" Later, as he was preparing war against the prefects of Alexander, a huge wild elephant went to him and took him on his back as if tame, and he became a remarkable fighter and war leader.
:" I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
:" I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
:" As I have already said, khyang is the name given by the Tibetans to the wild horse of their northern steppes.
:" The kyangs or wild asses, live together in smaller groups, each headed by a stallion, lording it over anything from ten to fifty mares.
:" Then, we again find tribes of Scythians, and again desert tracts occupied only by wild animals, till we come to that mountain chain overhanging the sea, which is called Tabis.
:" Happy Valley, in the Upper Waimangaroa, near Westport, is a stunning, wild and untouched landscape-home to 30 great spotted kiwi / roa and the rare Powelliphanta patrickensis snail.
:" in this work, in order to get convincing flights of wild fowl, films were made in the Outer Hebrides and projected on to the stage.
:" Following Earth Centre progress was a roller coaster ride of false starts, wild hopes and dashed plans.
:" Just as blue is delicate and mysterious, yellow clear and unsubtle, and red sanguine and passionate, so he felt ulfire to be wild and painful jale be dreamlike, feverish, and voluptuous.

:" and fantastical
:" H. W. being suddenly infected with the contagion of a fantastical fit, at the first sight of A, ... bewrayeth the secresy of his disease unto his familiar frend W. S., who not long before had tried the courtesy of the like passion, and was now newly recovered ... he determined to see whether it would sort to a happier end for this new actor, than it did for the old player.

:" and sand
:" All nature, from the smallest thing to the biggest, from a grain of sand to the sun, from the protista to man, is in a constant state of coming into being and going out of being, in a constant flux, in a ceaseless state of movement and change.
:" sand which is there " vs. " sandwiches there "
:" This past week, and the two prior to it, more poison fell from the sky than words can describe: ash, volcanic hairs, rain full of sulphur and saltpeter, all of it mixed with sand.
:" at Hawkstone in Shropshire, the seat of Sir Richard Hill, there is an elevated rock of siliceous sand which is coloured green with copper in many places high in the air.
:" Fisher was the first man to discover that there was sand under the water ... that could hold up a real estate sign.

:" and beach
:" The worst times were when he was " on the beach " – on shore, in San Pedro, California, between ships and broke.
:" Just back up along the beach, and if you make the first move to do anything I'm going to shoot.
:" On a day, at the end of two years from his arrival on Iona, Columba goes to the beach, where his craft of wicker and cowhide lies moored, waiting the use of any member of the community of Hy whose occasions may call him away from the island.
:" There, about a quarter league is Fajã, called " Big " to its name Great / Grande Fajã which offers bread and woad on elevated land, with a few berths for Caravels, it produces at least 50 moios unit of solid measure of bread and woad, and where, also, there is shellfish and fish of all kinds, and along its cape a beach, half a league in size, where there is always a strong ocean current ; and from there, another half a league, the cliffs are covered with much urzela lichen, and large rocks, that spawn an infinity of seafood and large crabs, and from here, there is an explosion of rocks that fall to the sea, like a guns spray, where we find limpets and cowrie shells ; and in front of this point, which forms a bay, where many type of ships anchor, including Carracks from India.
:" There are two kinds of people who are staying on this beach: those who are dead and those who are going to die.

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