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- noun Plural form of
iland .
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Examples
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And ai not has bias cos hav libbed in boaf ilands.
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This river is very great, and hath many ilands and people dwelling in them.
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We then lay at anchor vntyll three o'clock, Iohn & I painting the whiles the passage between the two ilands.
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Marchants to the Canarie-ilands, gathered out of an olde ligier booke of M. Nicolas Thorne the elder a worshipfull marchant of the city of Bristoll.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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In the morning, as soone as the sun was up, we set sayle, and ran up sixe leagues higher, and found shoalds in the middle of the channell, and small ilands, but seven fathoms water on both sides.
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They found by the day shoald water, two fathoms; but at the north of the river eighteen, and twentie fathoms, and very good riding for ships; and a narrow river to the westward, between two ilands.
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This river is very great, and hath many ilands and people dwelling in them.
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This river is very great, and hath many ilands and people dwelling in them.
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The mist meanwhile had somewhat broken, and the little dells with their trees and bushes were seen rising out of it, like green ilands, illumined by the morning sun, with ever and anon a house or hut half hidden by leaves leaning against the side of the hill.
The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck
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The voiage and travaile of Sir John Maundevile, Kt. Which treateth of the way to Hierusalem; and of marvayles of Inde, with other ilands and countryes.
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