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The man depicted is clearly an islander -- perhaps an ancestor of mine!— Mandolin Cafe News
Once she appeared at the bedside of a dying islander, and asked, as the doctor had withdrawn, to try her own remedies.— The Mothers Of Honoré From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899
The ideas of witchcraft are also widely spread among barbarians; and they are not a little fearful that some incantation may be thrown among their victuals In noticing the solitary meal of the Maldivian islander, another reason may be alleged for this misanthropical repast.— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
Drought may visit the islander, and he may be starved; the tornado may desolate his shore; fever and famine and thirst may lie in wait for him; sickness and sorrow and death abide with him.— In the Footprints of the Padres
We are Frenchmen, you beggarly islander--Frenchmen, do you hear A growl of sympathetic indignation ran through the crowd, and "_à bas les aristocrats_--_à bas les Anglais_!"— In the Days of My Youth

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