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Meanings of isle in English
Usage of isle in English
1
Such were the events that passed in the isle of St. Louis.
2
And in this isle is the mount Athos, that passeth the clouds.
3
Gwen envied Rhys's wandering; Rhys envied Gwen's home on the sacred isle.
4
He sat in Parliament as Lord Mountjoy of the isle of Wight.
5
St. Conon died in the isle of Man, about the year 648.
6
And where there is travel on this fair isle, congestion inevitably follows.
7
For in those days forest land spread widely over the English isle.
8
The face of the isle was changed, the desert became a garden.
9
Yet this seemed an isle in some vague fashion familiar to me.
10
The isle of Alan Ernescliffe's burial-place had now many Christians in it.
11
Jarl hailed from the isle of Skye, one of the constellated Hebrides.
12
This, the maxim illustrated respecting the isle toward which we were sailing.
13
Napoleon grew very weary of his inaction on the isle of Elba.
14
Now 'twas the governor of the isle, King Edward's lieutenant, John Wogan.
15
The gean isle occupied by Mr. Phoebus was of no inconsiderable dimensions.
16
Never had the sea disgorged upon that fairy isle such ghastly specters.
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Isle through the time
Isle across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Less common