sea-islands

This wyvem, it used to live out on the sea-islands you can just see from the docks.

Villains by Necessity Forward, Eve 1995

Two kinds of the black-seed or long-staple variety thrived in the sea-islands and along the coast from Delaware to Georgia, but only the hardier and more prolific green-seed or short-staple cotton could be raised inland.

The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest Holland Thompson 1906

I chant, projected, a thousand blooming cities yet, in time, on those groups of sea-islands;

A Broadway Pageant 1900

He was brought to Georgia in a slave-ship when he was about twenty years old, and remained upon one of the sea-islands for several years.

Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation Joel Chandler Harris 1878

He was brought to Georgia in a slave-ship when he was about twenty years old, and remained upon one of the sea-islands for several years.

Nights With Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris 1878

If you travel by steamer to the sea-islands to-day, you are tolerably certain to enter the Gulf by Grande Pass -- skirting Grande Terre, the most familiar island of all, not so much because of its proximity as because of its great crumbling fort and its graceful pharos: the stationary

Chita: a Memory of Last Island Lafcadio Hearn 1877

From Hatteras to the Florida line the enemy's vessels, mostly of small class, kept in summer well inside the line from cape to cape, harassing even the water traffic behind the sea-islands; while at Boston, her port of arrival, the "Siren" was favored by Broke's procedure.

Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 2 1877

Charleston Harbour opens between two of the sea-islands which fringe the coasts of South Carolina and Georgia.

The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence 1877

The Union forces made their way on to the sea-islands along the South Carolina coast in November of 1861, and the usual swarms of ignorant and half-starved negroes flocked around them.

The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland 1875

Almost universally on the sea-islands they call their equals also cousin.

The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland 1875