Cephallonia

Yet when she writes of village life in occupied France, we are somewhere in between Swan's Way and the Cephallonia of Captain Corelli's Mandolin.

Wendi L. Adamek: War And Cherry Blossoms Wendi L. Adamek 2011

Cephallonia with four; Epidaurus furnished five, Hermione one,

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005

Panayiotis Marinis, a sexologist and spiritual leader of the group, was born into polytheism on the holiday island of Cephallonia and insists the tradition is still strong in many smaller communities.

Greek pagans battle government in fight for rites 2004

Once more that plutonic fist shot upwards from the profoundest depths, and once more the crust and rocks of Cephallonia jolted and danced, the peaks of the mountains rocking like the masts of boats.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003

He sat down and wrote: 'Cephallonia is a factory that breeds babies for export.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003

When in November 1944 the invincible representatives of the master-race of the eternal Reich were ordered to withdraw, they destroyed every building for which they found the time, and the inhabitants of Cephallonia rose spontaneously against them and fought them all the way to the sea.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003

I found that in Cephallonia the night falls without the intervention of twilight, and that before it rains the light is like mother-of-pearl.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003

It occurred to her that she ought to show him her updated 'Personal History of Cephallonia'; he would probably be interested to know that the real reason for the massacres was that Eisenhower had perversely overruled all of Churchill's plans to liberate the islands, and sent the Italian Air Force uselessly to Tunisia instead of Cephallonia.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003

A vain megalomaniac with a silver tongue who was given Cephallonia by a mad brute of another black-haired megalomaniac who wants everyone except himself to be blond?

Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003

With his bodybelt full of gold sovereigns he covered Cephallonia on foot, memorising everything, and once or twice he climbed Mt Aenos to pay his respects to his first host, who was never entirely convinced that he had not been an angel.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003