Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An island off the southwest coast of England at the mouth of the Bristol Channel. Inhabited from prehistoric times, the island was a stronghold for pirates and smugglers from the Middle Ages until the 1700s.
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Examples
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They were marching now in time to gain their ships and be off as the last man stepped on board, with the full draft of the ebb to set them out to sea beyond Lundy Isle, into open water.
A Thane of Wessex 1884
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Somerset, just where Exmoor began to give grandeur to the outline in the rear, and in front the Welsh hills wore different tints of purple or gray, according to the promise of weather, Lundy Isle and the two lesser ones serving as the most prominent objects, as they rose from -- Well, well!
Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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