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An island northwest of Wales
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anglesey
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Anglesey or Ynys Môn is an island off the north-west coast of Wales . With an area of , Anglesey is by far the largest island of Wales and the fifth-largest island surrounding Great Britain (and the largest outside Scotland). Anglesey is also the largest ...
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The air was almost still, and a flock of pancake-shaped sky-skimmers, as Anglesey called them, went overhead, burnished copper color in the first pale dawn streaks.
Edward Anglesey, in the days when you also walked, that your wife would be a gray four-legged monster?
It would be awkward, perhaps ruinous, if Anglesey learned of this most intimate peering.
If his theory was wrong, and Anglesey was still Anglesey, he would receive only a normal human stream of consciousness and could probe for other troublemaking factors.
She knew more than the average person about druidism, having grown up in Wales near the Isle of Anglesey, which had once been a druid stronghold.
Welsh griddle cakes sprinkled with caster sugar, marinated cockles, Anglesey eggs, laver bread and Glamorgan sausages created a fragrant smell that quickly set her mouth to watering.
She picked at the Anglesey eggs, scooping a tiny portion of the grilled cheese topping, and stole another glance at Brock.
The patriarch, Thomas More Anglesey, Duke of Gunfleet, had been a contemporary, and a mortal rival, of John Comstock, who was the Earl of Epsom and the first great noble backer of the Royal Society.
Comstock had been the C, and Anglesey the first A, in the CABAL, the group of five who had run the Restoration government of Charles II.
Thomas More Anglesey had then been induced, somehow, to marry the embarrassed Countess and raise the two boys.
It will be recalled that in his fortieth chapter he waxes enthusiastic over Lewis Morris, the Welsh bard, who was born in Anglesey in 1700 and died in 1765.
Tudors, but one of those sober poets for which Anglesey has always been so famous.
Yet here we are, coming up to Anglesey where the pilot lies, and not a hint of other traffic.
The captain intended to clear Sellafield steering to pass five miles south of the Chicken Rock Light off the southern Manx coast, then alter course to clear Point Lynas on the island of Anglesey - a slightly longer route than was strictly necessary, but what the hell?
To the north, the South Stack light house, the last outpost of Anglesey, was retreating at six knots into their wake.