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  • We heard a bunch of boring junk about the expressway—how many years it took to finish it, how many miles long it was, how much it cost to build it, how it ran all the way from the Upper Peninsula in Michigan to Florida, all kinds of thrilling news.†   (source)
  • It looked, he thought, rather like the Pacific Northwest, the Olympic Peninsula.†   (source)
  • The part of the river the academy wished to widen was a peninsula of tidewater marsh bordering the Meany Granite Quarry; it was totally unusable land, yet Mr. Meany owned it and he resented that the academy wanted to scoop it away—"for purposes of recreation!" he said.†   (source)
  • Beneath the peninsular fort of La Cite, across the river from the old city, there are rooms of bandages, rooms of ammunition, even an underground hospital, or so it is believed.†   (source)
  • I found Finny beside the woods playing and fighting—the two were approximately the same thing to him—and I stood there wondering whether things weren't simpler and better at the northern terminus of these woods, a thousand miles due north into the wilderness, somewhere deep in the Arctic, where the peninsula of trees which began at Devon would end at last in an untouched grove of pine, austere and beautiful.†   (source)
  • He traveled down through Mexico and South America, skirted the Antarctic Peninsula, and circled back up to California and Oregon.†   (source)
  • I want to see when the Pennsylvania Railroad built this nice long track through the peninsula.†   (source)
  • He, like several other cousins, went to work at Bethlehem Steel's Sparrows Point steel mill and live in Turner Station, a small community of black workers on a peninsula in the Patapsco River, about twenty miles from downtown Baltimore.†   (source)
  • They're clearly intending to cut off the peninsula where Cherbourg is located.†   (source)
  • Seward Peninsula, just below Arctic Circle?†   (source)
  • As I get off-peninsula—moving away from the buildings and businesses of downtown Portland and onto the more suburban mainland—the houses get smaller and farther apart, set back on weedy, patchy yards.†   (source)
  • We landed on al-Faw Peninsula and secured the oil terminal there so Saddam couldn't set it ablaze as he had during the First Gulf War.†   (source)
  • When the shelling began that night, as Nathan was hit and stumbled unseen through the darkness into a pig shed, the company received orders to move quickly to the Bataan Peninsula, where they could hide in the jungle, regroup, then march back to retake Manila.†   (source)
  • In the Olympic Peninsula of northwest Washington State, a small town named Forks exists under a near-constant cover of clouds.†   (source)
  • The whole aircraft shook and rumbled as we charged down the runway, taking off to the southwest, directly into the desert wind which gusted out of the mainland Arabian peninsula.†   (source)
  • Hemingway captures that damage three times over: once in the Nick Adams stories culminating in "Big Two-Hearted River" (1925), where Nick goes off alone to Michigan's then remote Upper Peninsula on a fishing trip to repair his broken psyche after the horrors of his war experience; a second in Jake Barnes's war wound and the fractured festivities in Pamplona; and a third in Lieutenant Frederic Henry's separate peace, broken by his lover's death in childbirth in A Farewell to Arms.†   (source)
  • She set a goal to make it to a red buoy she spotted, near the bend of a peninsula, deep in the bay.†   (source)
  • Thunder anxiety was not unusual in dogs, he told us, especially in Florida, where huge boomers rolled across the peninsula nearly every afternoon during the torpid summer months.†   (source)
  • A History of Washington State, A History of the Olympic Peninsula, A History of Island County, Gardens and Gardening, Scientific Agriculture, The Care and Cultivation of Fruit Trees and Ornamental Shrubs.†   (source)
  • Among other things, he said that the sun was not a god but a red-hot stone, bigger than the entire Peloponnesian peninsula.†   (source)
  • Some patients came great distances, as distance is measured in a country of ruined roads and villages served only by footpaths—from Port-au-Prince and Haiti's southern peninsula, and from towns along the border with the Dominican Republic, speaking Spanish.†   (source)
  • General Principles, who fought in the Peninsular War.†   (source)
  • There's a big peninsula of land below us, and my old home town, Seward, is at the bottom of the peninsula, here.†   (source)
  • Together we had managed his practice, first in Corpus Christi, later in Alpena, a small town in the northern part of Michigan's lower peninsula.†   (source)
  • We flew southeast, over the dry, flat plains of the Orange Free State and the green and mountainous Cape peninsula.†   (source)
  • Two hours later, Clovis pointed at a narrow peninsula that lay before them.†   (source)
  • The peninsula.†   (source)
  • The idea of a peninsular Macondo prevailed for a long time, inspired by the arbitrary map that Jose Arcadio Buendia sketched on his return from the expedition.†   (source)
  • Bartolomeo Mancuso was the son of a barber who closed his shop in Cicero, Illinois, every fall to hunt deer on Michigan's Upper Peninsula.†   (source)
  • They burned for more than eight months, polluting the ground and air throughout the eastern Arabian Peninsula.†   (source)
  • And if you didn't look up at the painfully white snow peaks that burned above the sand, Mortenson thought, this could almost be the Arabian Peninsula.†   (source)
  • Monterey Peninsula College was called to the pool.†   (source)
  • MacArthur was soon forced to withdraw 65,000 Filipinos and 15,000 American troops from a defense of Luzon and into the mountains of the Bataan peninsula.†   (source)
  • But in its glow they could both see that the rock that had enclosed them so long ended up ahead in ragged twin peninsulas that pointed toward a gulf of darkness ahead-the chasm over the river.†   (source)
  • Oh, hello Cedric," says Donald's attractive wife, Joan, her back against the marble peninsula counter in the second-floor kitchen.†   (source)
  • Much of the Arabian peninsula: The Pitiless Waste.†   (source)
  • I think God meant to snap the Arabian Peninsula free of Africa.†   (source)
  • He said something about a British airborne division seizing bridgeheads and two American airborne divisions stopping enemy troops from moving into the Cotentin Peninsula.†   (source)
  • But as Boston was connected to the mainland only by a narrow, half-mile causeway, or neck, it was more like an island than a peninsula.†   (source)
  • Just on a hunch I went into the next bathroom, and the towel there said "Peninsula Medical Center," and I started to laugh all over again.†   (source)
  • As she reaches the narrow Hicacos peninsula, Lourdes searches for the outline of the Hotel Internacional at the far end of Varadero Beach.†   (source)
  • "I thought I might go to one of the universities on the Peninsula," he said at last.†   (source)
  • Last known specimen was captured on the Iberian Peninsula by the famed warrior Roland who coveted its magic but inadvertently slew the animal in his impatience for its quills.†   (source)
  • From the look of it, it had once been all beach, until erosion or a storm or both created a peninsula of sorts, where now a bunch of people were gathered, some sitting on driftwood that was piled up in makeshift benches, others standing around a firepit where a good-size blaze was going.†   (source)
  • Charleston is built on a peninsula located between two tidal rivers, the Ashley and the Cooper, which flow together to form CharlestonHarbor.†   (source)
  • Dahlen lives in Sequim, Washington, a village on the northern coast of the Olympic peninsula.†   (source)
  • But it was a what-do-you-call-it, a peninsula.†   (source)
  • Aegon's carpenters had shaped it after the land of Westeros, sawing out each bay and peninsula until the table nowhere ran straight.†   (source)
  • I now have two more from the lowest county in Maryland, on the Peninsula, upwards of one hundred miles.†   (source)
  • They tried to look beyond the water to the east and Portugal; to the north, the Hebrides, Iceland; to the south, the Antilles and farther, South America and the Antarctic Peninsula.†   (source)
  • Soon the league embraced almost the whole Peloponnesus [southern peninsula of Greece].†   (source)
  • And yet, the nomadic tribes who summered there with the reindeer had not journeyed with the herd's migration southwest along the coast to the more hospitable sea on the south side of the peninsula.†   (source)
  • Indians lived there for centuries, sallying out to hunt and fish from the small peninsula whose natural advantages gave them easy access to the teeming wildlife and fishing of the area.†   (source)
  • The priest headed east on Salisbury Road until he reached the Peninsula Hotel, whose subdued elegance was losing the battle with its surroundings.†   (source)
  • But ISIS wants to destroy the House of Saud and incorporate the Arabian Peninsula into the caliphate.†   (source)
  • That is, we wanted you both to know who and what Jesus and Gautama and Lao-tse and Shan-karacharya and Hui-neng and Sri Ramakrishna, etc., were before you knew too much or anything about Homer or Shakespeare or even Blake or Whitman, let alone George Washington and his cherry tree or the definition of a peninsula or how to parse a sentence.†   (source)
  • Object, may be missile, fired from Soviet base, Anadyr Peninsular.†   (source)
  • He was a disk jockey who worked further along the Peninsula and suffered regular crises of conscience about his profession.†   (source)
  • Hiss ruminated, scratching his rather peninsular jaw; Sophie waited.†   (source)
  • In my flurry of nostalgic spite, I have done the Monterey Peninsula a disservice.†   (source)
  • The landing at Inchon, the march north to the Yalu, when we had been assured we would be home in time for Christmas, and then the bitter retreat back down the peninsula when the Chinese, who we had been assured would not fight, decided to fight.†   (source)
  • A far-off holiday with Sharon in the Gaspe Peninsula floated through his mind, but he put the thought away.†   (source)
  • And while now it was doubtful that he would ever see the Seven Wonders of the World, he had suggested to Emma that they take a simple little pleasure trip-modestly, on the bus-down the inexpensive side of the Peninsula; but it had been his luck to mention it on the anniversary of Fan's death and she had slammed the door in his face.†   (source)
  • He told her to meet him at the oak peninsula north of Point Beach at noon.   (source)
    peninsula = land projecting into a body of water
  • But she was already in the trees, and ran a crow-route, first inland, then across the peninsula, toward her boat.   (source)
  • Once she rounded the peninsula, out of sight of Jumpin's, she idled down, dug in the box, and pulled out the blouse with the lace collar.   (source)
  • They chugged around a piney peninsula for several miles to Barkley Cove, where Pa tied to the deeply etched beams of the town wharf.   (source)
  • A fog was lifting from an August morning in 1969 as Kya motored to a remote peninsula the locals called Cypress Cove, where she had once seen rare toadstools.   (source)
  • This was the Florida you fly over, wondering why people ever thought to inhabit this peninsula.†   (source)
  • Church One afternoon, somewhere west of the Batangan Peninsula, we came across an abandoned pagoda.†   (source)
  • The Highlands is an abandoned subdivision off-peninsula.†   (source)
  • There's a reason why we chose the Olympic Peninsula, one of the most sunless places in the world.†   (source)
  • The whole Cotentin Peninsula has been captured just three weeks after the invasion!†   (source)
  • Oh, Walt, it looks just like the Upper Peninsula!†   (source)
  • Directly below, the northern tip of the peninsula made a gentle curlicue around Provincetown harbor.†   (source)
  • 'That's why we stopped at the Peninsula, isn't it?†   (source)
  • Then you tell me that you want to leave Eddis and go to a university on the Peninsula.†   (source)
  • The students from Monterey Peninsula College looked straight ahead.†   (source)
  • The forest looked a lot like any other part of the peninsula, and Jacob set a vastly different mood.†   (source)
  • I drove quickly through the city toward the eastern side of the Charleston peninsula.†   (source)
  • The peninsula has produced, oddly enough, a people with the siege mentality of islanders.†   (source)
  • That business of going to the Peninsula to study…†   (source)
  • You'll see the Peninsula Hotel, but don't go inside.†   (source)
  • I have friends at the Pen across the street,' said Webb, referring to the revered Peninsula Hotel.†   (source)
  • I walked from the Peninsula to the Star Ferry with your suitcase.†   (source)
  • The land in the Olympic Peninsula reaches way out to the west, over a hundred miles.†   (source)
  • And as we crossed that coastline heading out toward the open ocean, it really was good-bye, from me at least, to the Arabian Peninsula and the seething Islamic states at the north end of the gulf, Kuwait, Iraq, Syria, and Iran, that had dominated my life and thoughts for the past couple of years.†   (source)
  • Dragging himself ashore on the Japanese-occupied Bataan Peninsula, he had begun a run for China, hiking through jungles and over mountains, navigating the coast in boats donated by sympathetic Filipinos, hitching rides on burros, and surviving in part by eating ants.†   (source)
  • Beyond that, I would veer northeast, slanting toward the plantation of a cousin of Weylin's and toward Delaware to travel up the highest part of the peninsula.†   (source)
  • They walked to the whale-rock and sat at the edge of the peninsula of woods and watched smoke curl out of the chimney.†   (source)
  • When sleighs appeared on front lawns and fake snow on Douglas firs, Baba stayed home and I drove the VW bus alone up and down the peninsula.†   (source)
  • They were trapped on the peninsula, starving and terrified, and finally rounded up at bayonet point to be marched north through tepid rice paddies and blazing heat, marched through exhaustion and sickness and beyond it, marched from their feet to their hands and knees, emaciated, hallucinating from thirst and racked with malaria, toward a prison camp which few of them ever reached, and fewer survived.†   (source)
  • He attended Voodoo ceremonies, talked to peasants about their lives, and found his way, among other places, to a hospital in Léogâne, a town about twelve miles west of Port-au-Prince, on Haiti's southern peninsula.†   (source)
  • Here in this peninsular fortress just outside Saint-Malo, cut off from the retreating lines, it seems only a matter of time until Canadians and Brits and the bright American eyes of the Eighty-third Division will be swarming the city, scouring the homes for marauding Huns, doing whatever it is they do when they take prisoners.†   (source)
  • The Semites originated in the Arabian Peninsula, but they also migrated to different parts of the world.†   (source)
  • I can only hope the door-to-door on peninsula is taking longer than usual, and it will be a while before the raiders make it to Deering Highlands.†   (source)
  • I decided that most of the blame belonged on the doorstep of the town of Forks — and the entire sodden Olympic Peninsula, for that matter.†   (source)
  • In the course of their travels, the family visited Iron Mountain, Michigan, a small mining town in the forests of the Upper Peninsula that was Billies childhood home.†   (source)
  • And like the time we enlisted an old poppa-san to guide us through the mine fields out on the Batangan Peninsula.†   (source)
  • The previous Thursday, the first day of spring, had been the Afghan New Year's Day—the Sawl-e-Nau—and Afghans in the Bay Area had planned celebrations throughout the East Bay and the peninsula.†   (source)
  • I wanted to show her the Vietnam that kept me awake at night-a shady trail outside the village of My Khe, a filthy old pigsty on the Batangan Peninsula.†   (source)
  • We're still off-peninsula, not far from 37 Brooks, where the houses are separated by large tracts of torn-up grass and run-down gardens, full of litter.†   (source)
  • All around us, the place was littered with Bouncing Betties and Toe Poppers and booby-trapped artillery rounds, but in those five days on the Batangan Peninsula nobody got hurt.†   (source)
  • And even if it did happen, it didn't happen in the mountains, it happened in this little village on the Batangan Peninsula, and it was raining like crazy, and one night a guy named Stink Harris woke up screaming with a leech on his tongue.†   (source)
  • "Poor thing," muttered Max, cradling the hagling against his chest and pulling at the tightly fitted mask so he could slide it past its peninsular chin.†   (source)
  • All through the perfect summer—the happiest summer I had ever had, the happiest summer anyone anywhere had ever had, and the rainiest summer in the history of the Olympic Peninsula—this bleak date had lurked in ambush, waiting to spring.†   (source)
  • The fog dissipated, and they found themselves on a peninsula that jutted out over a pitch-black void.†   (source)
  • Galloping low with Woolf flat over his back, Seabiscuit flew into the lane, the clean peninsula of track narrowing ahead as the crowd pushed forward.†   (source)
  • And not just Forks, but Port Angeles and Sequim and Hoquiam and Aberdeen and every other town in the Olympic Peninsula.†   (source)
  • The night before, working at great speed, Washington's men had moved the guns from Ticonderoga to commanding positions on the high ground of the Dorchester Peninsula, south of Boston, looking over Boston Harbor and the British fleet.†   (source)
  • It would be dominated by a massive Sunni state that would stretch from Baghdad to the Arabian Peninsula and across the Levant and North Africa.†   (source)
  • A 688-class attack submarine, she had been on an ELINT—electronic intelligence gathering—mission in the Kara Sea when she was ordered west to the Kola Peninsula.†   (source)
  • There were no views of the moon or the peninsula of powdery sand from the gambling rooms, only the lights of the chandeliers enticing them to stay.†   (source)
  • Neither side had yet moved to fortify the even higher ground of the Dorchester peninsula overlooking the harbor.†   (source)
  • From his private room, when the weather was clear, Hoerni had a view of Elliot Bay and the sharp peaks of the Olympic Peninsula.†   (source)
  • He'd already done the Harvard route, so it didn't bother him that, thanks to my procrastination, we might both end up at Peninsula Community College next year.†   (source)
  • What appeared to be a peninsula on the map was more an island connected to the mainland only at low tide.†   (source)
  • It was a given that MIT would win the championship, so they figured that Monterey Peninsula College had slid into second place.†   (source)
  • Chased from their original Afghan sanctuary, they had found new spaces to operate in Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Libya, the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt, and a district of Brussels called Molenbeek.†   (source)
  • They'd be the last such photos for a while because of the restrictions imposed by orbital mechanics and the generally miserable weather on the Kola Peninsula.†   (source)
  • So, Saturday afternoon, I tied on my new hiking boots—purchased that morning using my twenty-per-cent-off employee discount for the first time—grabbed my new topographical map of the Olympic Peninsula, and drove to La Push.†   (source)
  • As a cadet, I had learned the Charleston streets by rote and was always refining my knowledge of shortcuts on the peninsula.†   (source)
  • The Persians, in the fifth century B.C., tried to extend their empire to the Greek Peninsula and failed twice.†   (source)
  • As critical and dangerous as any part of the operation would be the crossing of the low-lying causeway of the Dorchester peninsula, which stood in plain view of the British lines at the Boston Neck, less than a mile away.†   (source)
  • Twin hills comprised the Heights of the Dorchester peninsula, and the distance from these summits to the nearest British lines at Boston Neck was a mile and a half, well within range of a 2— or i 8-pound cannon.†   (source)
  • The city aged as we headed down the peninsula, the houses grew older and more distinguished, as though we were marching backward into history.†   (source)
  • He was a merchant and a citizen of one of the city-states on the peninsula, with no particular loyalty to Attolia or to Eddis.†   (source)
  • Once settled in the Peninsula, he had time for something to eat and to forage in several shops until nightfall.†   (source)
  • The ambassador from Eddis closeted himself with the king and revealed that Eddis had hired a master gunsmith in the fall and had retooled her foundries over the winter to produce cannon instead of the iron ingots she had been shipping to the Peninsula in the past.†   (source)
  • In the simplest terms, as he drew in his own rough map, the setting was one of three irregular peninsulas at the head of Boston Harbor, with the peninsula of Boston in the middle, that of Charlestown (and Bunker Hill) just to the north, and Dorchester close by to the south.†   (source)
  • She would then stare longingly at those enchanted lights, strung like a brilliant necklace along the curved neck of the peninsula, and swear that one day she would earn back her rightful place in the city she had lost as a girl before she even realized how passionately she loved it or knew how desperately she would miss it when it was so cruelly taken from her.†   (source)
  • In the harbor off Long Wharf were British ships lying at anchor—and three were ships of the line, ships of fifty guns or more—while over to the right of the Dorchester peninsula, at the narrow entrance to the Inner Harbor, on Castle Island, stood the old fort Castle William, also occupied by the British.†   (source)
  • After leaving the Daimler he had gone to the Peninsula Hotel and taken a room, depositing his attache case in the hotel safe.†   (source)
  • When the king dismissed him, he returned to his study to make careful notes for the history he was writing of the war the Sounisians had fought centuries before while struggling to stay free of the powerful invaders from the Peninsula.†   (source)
  • Their initial plan, agreed to on June 15, had been to seize the high ground on both the Charlestown and Dorchester peninsulas.†   (source)
  • Forty miles southwest of Hong Kong, beyond the out islands in the South China Sea, is the peninsula of Macao, a Portuguese colony in ceremonial name only.†   (source)
  • In the simplest terms, as he drew in his own rough map, the setting was one of three irregular peninsulas at the head of Boston Harbor, with the peninsula of Boston in the middle, that of Charlestown (and Bunker Hill) just to the north, and Dorchester close by to the south.†   (source)
  • He had gone back to the Peninsula, stopping at the New World Centre to buy a dark, waistlength nylon jacket and a pair of navy blue sneakers with heavy soles.†   (source)
  • The Frenchman had gone to the Peninsula with Bourne's room key, packed his suitcase without checking out, and was taking the one o'clock jetfoil back to Macao.†   (source)
  • Bourne had returned to the Peninsula, discarded his jacket and hat and walked rapidly through the crowded lobby to the elevator; a well-dressed couple had tried not to show their shock at his appearance.†   (source)
  • The Peninsula Hotel.†   (source)
  • One place, however, I vividly recall—a grassy peninsula, usually unpeopled at that hour on weekdays, jutting out into the lake where a sextet of large, rather pugnacious-looking swans coasted like gangsters through the reeds, interrupting their swim long enough to waddle up onto the grass and scrounge competitively, with aggressive hiss-lags from their voiceless throats, for the crusts of our poppyseed rolls or other leftovers.†   (source)
  • Next day, after twelve hours of sleep and no dreams to speak of, Oedipa checked out of the hotel and drove down the peninsula to Kinneret.†   (source)
  • Several hundred of his missile and air bases, from the Chukchi Peninsula to the Baltic, and from Vladivostok to the Black Sea, have certainly been destroyed.†   (source)
  • Driven to the sea by the volcano of history, they had turned at bay on the last peninsula.†   (source)
  • …and walking, with the bag hung from his shoulders, down the interminable aisles of the Royal Poinciana or the Breakers, target of scorn, and scandal, and amusement from slave and prince; or traversed the spacious palmcool walks that cut the peninsula, to see, sprawled in the sensual loose sand the ladies' silken legs, the brown lean bodies of the men, the long seaplunges in the unending scroll-work of the emerald and infinite sea, which had beat in his brain from his father's shells,…†   (source)
  • In the afternoon, when the sun had gone over the mountains of the Peninsula to sink in the outward sea, Kino squatted in his house with Juana beside him.†   (source)
  • David gazed from one to the other and finally like theirs his eyes came to rest on the hand that had just settled softly on the table, glimmering and peninsular on the green oilcloth.†   (source)
  • He pointed across the barranca to a group of Indian huts on a peninsula of rock jutting out across the chasm.†   (source)
  • I believe Mussolini was not kidding about blasting pieces out of his Alps and Apennines to let the cold foggy currents of Germany over the peninsula and make the Perugini and the Romans into fighters.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XXVI Next morning a fine mist covered the peninsula.†   (source)
  • There was the bridge, and the river nibbling its green peninsula.†   (source)
  • The king (Don Carlos) has not left Bourges, and the peninsula is in the enjoyment of profound peace.†   (source)
  • I see a peninsula looking like a thigh bone with the knee bone at the end of it.†   (source)
  • But talking of books, there is Southey's 'Peninsular War.'†   (source)
  • But, tell me, how do you expect to get to the peninsula of Snaefell?†   (source)
  • I am one of the agents of the Peninsular Company.†   (source)
  • An agent of the Peninsular Company, you know, can't stop on the way!†   (source)
  • Yes; an inhabitant of that peninsula He is an eiderdown hunter, and very clever.†   (source)
  • Now Tommy turned sharply down to the shore, ran out a blunt peninsula, and stopped in the rear of a small shore hotel.†   (source)
  • Since Avonlea occupied a little triangular peninsula jutting out into the Gulf of St. Lawrence with water on two sides of it, anybody who went out of it or into it had to pass over that hill road and so run the unseen gauntlet of Mrs. Rachel's all-seeing eye.†   (source)
  • Two o'clock and the whole corner of the peninsula was blazing with light, which fell unreal on the shrubbery and made thin elongating glints upon the roadside wires.†   (source)
  • Sometimes it was the bark of roots that had such qualities, like those of a vine on the Malay peninsula called Strychnos tieute, with which the natives mixed snake venom to make upas-rajah, a drug that when introduced into the bloodstream, with a dart or arrow for instance, led to almost instant death, although there was no one who could have told young Hans Castorp how it actually did so.†   (source)
  • Over on a dark peninsula a piano was playing the songs of last summer and of summers before that-- songs from "Chin-Chin" and "The Count of Luxemburg" and "The Chocolate Soldier"--and because the sound of a piano over a stretch of water had always seemed beautiful to Dexter he lay perfectly quiet and listened.†   (source)
  • 'tis a peninsular!'†   (source)
  • She had been told that, rough and brutal as they seemed just then, they were not like this all the year round, but were, in fact, quite civil persons save during certain weeks of autumn and winter, when, like the inhabitants of the Malay Peninsula, they ran amuck, and made it their purpose to destroy life—in this case harmless feathered creatures, brought into being by artificial means solely to gratify these propensities—at once so unmannerly and so unchivalrous towards their weaker…†   (source)
  • We left her standing upon the thin peninsula of firm, peaty soil which tapered out into the widespread bog.†   (source)
  • She was also very funny about the Bridge Party—indeed she regarded the entire peninsula as a comic opera.†   (source)
  • The air grew cooler; they had surmounted the last gradient, and Oniton lay below them with its church, its radiating houses, its castle, its river-girt peninsula.†   (source)
  • There are one hundred and seventy million Indians in this notable peninsula, and of course one or other of them entered the cave.†   (source)
  • In the days of the prehistoric ocean the southern part of the peninsula already existed, and the high places of Dravidia have been land since land began, and have seen on the one side the sinking of a continent that joined them to Africa, and on the other the upheaval of the Himalayas from a sea.†   (source)
  • Close to the castle was a grey mansion unintellectual but kindly, stretching with its grounds across the peninsula's neck—the sort of mansion that was built all over England in the beginning of the last century, while architecture was still an expression of the national character.†   (source)
  • To regard an Indian as if he were an Italian is not, for instance, a common error, nor perhaps a fatal one, and Fielding often attempted analogies between this peninsula and that other, smaller and more exquisitely shaped, that stretches into the classic waters of the Mediterranean.†   (source)
  • A natural spring of soft and pleasant water—a rare treasure on the sea-girt peninsula where the Puritan settlement was made—had early induced Matthew Maule to build a hut, shaggy with thatch, at this point, although somewhat too remote from what was then the centre of the village.†   (source)
  • The long and narrow peninsula of Malacca, extending south-eastward from the territories of Birmah, forms the most southerly point of all Asia.†   (source)
  • Thousands of handkerchiefs were waving above these tightly packed masses, hailing the Abraham Lincoln until it reached the waters of the Hudson River, at the tip of the long peninsula that forms New York City.†   (source)
  • At length he arrived at a firm piece of ground, which ran like a peninsula into the deep bosom of the swamp.†   (source)
  • But the Duke of Wellington was really alive, and Bony had not been long dead; therefore Mr. Poulter's reminiscences of the Peninsular War were removed from all suspicion of being mythical.†   (source)
  • On the outskirts of the town, within the verge of the peninsula, but not in close vicinity to any other habitation, there was a small thatched cottage.†   (source)
  • The Count Gemini was not liked even by those who won from him; and he bore a name which, having a measurable value in Florence, was, like the local coin of the old Italian states, without currency in other parts of the peninsula.†   (source)
  • The good husband finds method as efficient in the packing of fire-wood in a shed or in the harvesting of fruits in the cellar, as in Peninsular campaigns[668] or the files of the Department of State.†   (source)
  • The famous Fountain of Youth, if I am rightly informed, is situated in the southern part of the Floridian peninsula, not far from Lake Macaco.†   (source)
  • At the eastern extremity of the island, however, was a small, densely-wooded peninsula, with a thicket of underbrush so closely matted as nearly to prevent the possibility of seeing across it, so long as the leaves remained on the branches.†   (source)
  • Now was the time the —th had so long panted for, to show their comrades in arms that they could fight as well as the Peninsular veterans, and that all the pluck and valour of the —th had not been killed by the West Indies and the yellow fever.†   (source)
  • She made a fresh series of mots, characterized with great felicity the Italian intellect and the taste of the figs at Sorrento, predicted the ultimate future of the Italian kingdom (disgust with the brutal Sardinian rule and complete reversion, throughout the peninsula, to the sacred sway of the Holy Father), and, finally, gave a history of the love affairs of the Princess X——.†   (source)
  • Only eighty days, now that the section between Rothal and Allahabad, on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, has been opened.†   (source)
  • —don't step where the cows have been!" he added, pointing to a peninsula of dry grass, with trodden mud on each side of it; for Tom's contemptuous conception of a girl included the attribute of being unfit to walk in dirty places.†   (source)
  • In a continuous line from that peninsula stretch the long islands of Sumatra, Java, Bally, and Timor; which, with many others, form a vast mole, or rampart, lengthwise connecting Asia with Australia, and dividing the long unbroken Indian ocean from the thickly studded oriental archipelagoes.†   (source)
  • "I'll engage, when the truth comes to be known, they'll turn out to be nothing but peninsulas, or promontories; or continents; though these are matters, I daresay, of which you know little or nothing.†   (source)
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