islander's

The resemblance to ancient structures in Cuzco is indeed uncanny, and Cuzco in the Incan language means "navel," as in the islander's early name for their home.

Richard Bangs: Skullduggery on Easter Island (Part I of II) Richard Bangs 2011

He is a ­figure who seems to Simons as "shimmery as an islander's god and solid as a butcher."

Books on Southern Fiction Elizabeth Spencer 2009

We bid the gents farewell and continue on what is now Jalan Satu, meandering at an islander's leisurely pace.

One Hour Out: Kuala Lumpur 2009

The door pulled open just wide enough for the islander's face to appear.

A Shadow in Summer 2006

He shouldered the additional burden of providing for his brother's family with an islander's dour fatalism.

Stormwarden Wurts, Janny 1989

At the risk of committing heresby, one would be less than honest not to admit that there are times when the islander's philosophy is much more appealing than our own.

Chapter 10 1983

Sawn into posts, it upholds the islander's dwelling; converted into charcoal, it cooks his food; and, supported on blocks of stones, rails in his lands.

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. P. L. Simmonds

Spanish ships, that story, too, may have been some islander's delusion; but it made the crew believe that Columbus's undertaking must look promising to the great navigating Portuguese nation, or they would not be jealous of Spain's enterprise.

Christopher Columbus Mildred Stapley Byne

O strangers, I am not accustomed to an islander's life, but we are come to your land from Mycenæ.

The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides

The war had been in full swing for over a year and the countryside was an armed camp before the realisation of what might happen commercially after the war soaked into the average islander's consciousness.

The War After the War Isaac Frederick Marcosson 1918