isles

• “It's one of the most well-known speeches but quite clearly and very creatively they are punning on the word isles.”

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• “In contrast, the SNP's, the other Celtic and English nationalists 'belief that national identity in these isles is a zero-sum game where you can only have one or the other, is a very narrow one - one that doesn't rest at all comfortably with the reality with of the modern multi-ethnic and cultural United Kingdom.”

  "See me, hear me, but still you try to box me in"*

• “It must be “Romaric” posing in a lovely pic taken in the Greek isles is what looks to be the backdrop ….”

  Tomorrow’s fish and chips

• “On the eve of the fiesta, people walk from church to church, admiring the handiwork of the skilled artesans who construct the carpets on the floor of the wide main isles.”

  The cuisine of Tlaxcala: food and tradition in central Mexico

• “Caprea, or in three small islands of Sicily which Aristotle calls the isles of the Sirens.”

  Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)

• “There the Servant calls the isles and the distant peoples to listen, and declares that His mouth is 'like a sharp sword'; here all that is keen and smiting in His word has softened into gentle whispers of comfort to sustain the weary.”

  Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah

• “In Hakluyt these are called the isles of Madrabumba, and are said to be ten leagues from the point of Sierra Leona.”

  A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time.

• “At this time, the largest of the Ridang isles, which is the eastermost, bore from us due”

  A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

• “His country also shall be made desolate: I will send a fire on Magog (v. 6) and among those that dwell carelessly, or confidently, in the isles, that is, the nations of the Gentiles.”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)

• “But this is directed to the isles (that is, the Gentiles, for they are called the isles of the Gentiles, Gen.x. 5) and to the people from far, that were strangers to the commonwealth of Israel, and afar off.”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)

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