Oxia

Pisani landed on Oxia, climbed one of its crags, and from this lofty outlook counted 250 sail in the enemy's fleet, which was coming out along the north shore of the gulf, the three main squadrons abreast, the reserve astern of them.

Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima John Richard Hale

Comnenus (1081-1118), formerly a monk in Oxia one of the Echinades

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

The wind and sea augmenting, I was unable to keep the ship head to sea, and therefore bore up for the _rendezvous_ of Oxia.

The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol. II Thomas Barnes Cochrane Dundonald 1873

I looked inside Oxia, but found it unsafe, and therefore bore up for the

The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol. II Thomas Barnes Cochrane Dundonald 1873

In an afternoon they sighted the great stones Oxia and Plati; the first, arid and bare as a gray egg, and conical like an irregular pyramid; the other, a plane on top, with verdure and scattering trees.

The Prince of India — Volume 01 Lewis Wallace 1866

Eremites in search of the hardest, grimmest places, selected Oxia, and pecking holes and caves in its sides, shared the abodes thus laboriously won with cormorants, the most gluttonous of birds.

The Prince of India — Volume 01 Lewis Wallace 1866

He gave in full the story of Basil and Prusien, who quarrelled, and fought a duel to the scandal of the Church; whereupon Constantine VIII., then emperor, exiled them, the former to Oxia, the latter to Plati, where their sole consolation the remainder of their lives was gazing at each other from the mouths of their respective caverns.

The Prince of India — Volume 02 Lewis Wallace 1866

At sundown the galley was plying its oars between Oxia and the European shore about where St. St.phano is now situated.

The Prince of India — Volume 01 Lewis Wallace 1866

One gazing at the other isles of the group from a softly rocking caique out a little way on the sea divines instantly that she meant them for summer retreats, but these two, Oxia and Plati, off by themselves, bleak in winter, apparently always ready for spontaneous combustion in the heated months, for what were they designed?

The Prince of India — Volume 01 Lewis Wallace 1866

The captain was pleased to gratify his passenger, and stood by him while the galley encircled Oxia, telling legends, and pointing out the caves to which celebrated anchorites had lent their names.

The Prince of India — Volume 02 Lewis Wallace 1866