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- noun Plural form of
isle .
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Examples
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It's one of the most well-known speeches but quite clearly and very creatively they are punning on the word isles.
BBC News - Home 2012
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In contrast, the SNP's, the other Celtic and English nationalists 'belief that national identity in these isles is a zero-sum game where you can only have one or the other, is a very narrow one - one that doesn't rest at all comfortably with the reality with of the modern multi-ethnic and cultural United Kingdom.
"See me, hear me, but still you try to box me in"* O'Neill 2008
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It must be “Romaric” posing in a lovely pic taken in the Greek isles is what looks to be the backdrop ….
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On the eve of the fiesta, people walk from church to church, admiring the handiwork of the skilled artesans who construct the carpets on the floor of the wide main isles.
The cuisine of Tlaxcala: food and tradition in central Mexico 1998
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On the eve of the fiesta, people walk from church to church, admiring the handiwork of the skilled artesans who construct the carpets on the floor of the wide main isles.
The cuisine of Tlaxcala: food and tradition in central Mexico 1998
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On the eve of the fiesta, people walk from church to church, admiring the handiwork of the skilled artesans who construct the carpets on the floor of the wide main isles.
The cuisine of Tlaxcala: food and tradition in central Mexico 1998
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Caprea, or in three small islands of Sicily which Aristotle calls the isles of the Sirens.
Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) Charles K. Dillaway
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There the Servant calls the isles and the distant peoples to listen, and declares that His mouth is 'like a sharp sword'; here all that is keen and smiting in His word has softened into gentle whispers of comfort to sustain the weary.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah Alexander Maclaren 1868
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In Hakluyt these are called the isles of Madrabumba, and are said to be ten leagues from the point of Sierra Leona.
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At this time, the largest of the Ridang isles, which is the eastermost, bore from us due
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