What is "islanders"

Usage examples of "islanders".

Then each settled himself as well as he could to sleep, and in that rocky hole, at a height of two thousand five hundred feet above the level of the sea, through a peaceful night, the islanders enjoyed profound repose.

But in general the islanders live on the shores of the narrow spaces which emerge above the waters of the Pacific, and this shore appeared to be an absolute desert.

A line was dropped to them and made fast, and the three young islanders swarmed on deck with rare agility.

When the young islanders had finished their tour of the ship, they proved reluctant to make known their wants.

The mate stepped forward to greet her, and as he did so, his host spoke to her in the curious speech the islanders used among themselves.

On the pledge and request of the American Government these islanders had handed over all their arms--800 rifles and their fighting knives.

They were living little better than the original islanders and working much harder.

At the time the islanders left Laerg there were only five men left between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five, and remembering those long, almost ape-like arms, those huge hands and the enormous breadth of his shoulders, I could well imagine the old devil swinging down the face of a thousand-foot cliff, his grizzled beard glistening with the vapour that swirled about him as he sought some almost invisible ledge where the guillemots or solan geese were nesting.

So there was a lot of Islanders in Chokoloskee by the time Mister Watson come back from the Bend.

The Greek and Roman writers had mentioned this practice, but it was long totally forgotten by the civilized world, until it was discovered, as an unheard-of wonder, to be the usage among the Carib Islanders, and several Indian tribes in North America.

I closed my eyes, I saw Ice Islanders sacking the very heart of Formalin power.

Mellitha looked at the image of the Ice Islanders for a long moment then set the water spinning, the oils on the surface gleaming in the green glow of her magic.

Ice Islanders, that was definitely an assault from outside, someone forcing their way into your head and seizing your wits.

The great double doors of black, iron-bound wood stood open, meek Islanders carrying in loads deposited on the dark sand of the beach by the flotilla of little boats that were ferrying in considerable amounts of cargo from the galleys anchored in the center of the bay.

Questing, head raised for a moment as the Islanders fell silent in frozen awe, the great beast abruptly disappeared beneath the roiling waters, the last flick of its tail slapping across the strait.