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n. (desert island English)
Usage examples of "desert islands".
But fear of man is slowly acquired, as I have elsewhere shown, by various animals inhabiting desert islands.
Five metal streetlamps marked one channel for them, miraculously remaining upright after all these years, The conical algal encrustations around them were actually solidifying, turning them into cartoon desert islands.
Don't people on desert islands cut notches in trees or something like that?
Reade, however, was an expert on desert islands, or at any rate he was very well up in the geography textbooks of the time.
Five metal streedamps marked one channel for them, miraculously remaining upright after all these years, The conical algal encrustations around them were actually solidifying, turning them into cartoon desert islands.
It consists of nothing but middling to large desert islands separated by very pretty but annoyingly wide stretches of ocean.
On both sides the little boxes would light up, their mechanism triggered by something in the bottom of the raft as it went by, and in the boxes were representations of desert islands.
It gave Kit intense pleasure to symbolically consign the drafters of the requisite government forms to a long life marooned on one of those miniature desert islands, without hope of rescue.
Distant colonies were left to fend for themselves, marooned here and there on semihabitable worlds like so many Crusoes on desert islands.