It's so nice to hear the silk dresses swishing up the isles.
I scarcely noted how the other teachers went to work; I had my own business to mind; and my task was not the least onerous, being to imbue some ninety sets of brains with a due tincture of what they considered a most complicated and difficult science, that of the English language; and to drill ninety tongues in what, for them, was an almost impossible pronunciation—the lisping and hissing dentals of the Isles.
" PETER:—"The Island, the British Isles and Australia.
They knew already that in this respect Lincoln Island would have been worthy to take the first rank in the Canary group, to which the first name given was that of the Happy Isles.
Numerous aquatic birds frequented the shores of this little Ontario, in which the thousand isles of its American namesake were represented by a rock which emerged from its surface, some hundred feet from the southern shore.
There was to be no rain, after all; the clouds rolled off to the horizon again, making the great purple rampart and long purple isles of that wondrous land which reveals itself to us when the sun goes down,—the land that the evening star watches over.
Lydgate, certain that his patient wished to be alone, soon left him; and the black figure with hands behind and head bent forward continued to pace the walk where the dark yew-trees gave him a mute companionship in melancholy, and the little shadows of bird or leaf that fleeted across the isles of sunlight, stole along in silence as in the presence of a sorrow.
There was one little group of islets far off to the west which they called the Fortunate Isles.
The British Isles too had their fair share of merfolk mythology.
The distance between the two Orkney isles is 1.
Flannan Isles The Flannan Isles are located off the coast of Scotland, and the location of lighthouse.
Yet among them moved bravos and sellswords from Pentos and Myr and Tyrosh, 、, a red priest even fatter than Illyrio, hairy men from the Port of Ibben, ,,, and lords from the Summer Isles with skin as black as ebony.
Then we had to lie off for three days before we got a south-east wind and stood out for Seven Isles.
Walk around the outside of the grocery store and don't mess with the inner isles.
Weep—for thy tears are Virtue's tears— "", Auspicious to these suffering isles; ; And be each drop in future years Repaid thee by thy people's smiles!
I want you to know one thing You know how this is If I look at the crystal moon at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window If I touch near the fire the impalpable ash, or the wrinkled body of the log Everything carries me to you As if everything that exists Aromas, light, medals, , Or little boats that sail toward those isles of your that wait for me, , Well now.
David Graddol, the author of English Next, says it is tempting to view the story of English as a triumph for its native speakers in North America, the British Isles and Australasia – but that would be a mistake.
" And so it was (Riviera ligure di ponente) NOTES: "The Ship with Three Decks" (Il bastimento a tre piani) from Andrews, 2 and 27, Menton, told by Giuanina Piombo dite La Mova, and by Angelina Moretti Prosperous sea trading, with unusual cargos coming into ports where the merchandise is highly prized, is a metaphor of luck in the popular mind It recurs in diverse folktales and is woven into various plots (cf my no173, from Sicily) In this tale from the Italian Riviera border, the cur
According to the survey, among 59 butterfly species found in the British Isles, more than three-quarters of them are suffering a declining population, including the most popular Meadow Brown.
The bar counter is possibly the only site in the British Isles in which friendly conversation with strangers is considered entirely appropriate and rea1ly quite normal behaviour.
