Verse 11. (They presented unto Him gifts). The people of the east never approach the presence of kings and great personages, without a present in their hands. The custom is often noticed in the Old Testament, and still prevails in the east, and in some of the newly discovered South Sea Islands.
I'm not a big Austen reader. I wouldn't say I dislike her, but if I had to choose between her and Eliot to bring to a desert island, it would definitely be Eliot.
Island of Hispaniola once so populous (having a population that I estimated to be more than three million), has now a population of barely two hundred persons.
If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island.
I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.
As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.
In mysteries what we know, and our realization of what we do not know, proceed together; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. It is like the quantum world, where the more we understand its formalism, the stranger that world becomes.
For me, a desert island is no tragedy, neither is a deserted planet.
I cannot deny that on a breezy summer's day, Fishers Island is one of the most idyllic places possible for a round of golf.
I want people to think of Hawaii and think of palm trees and magical islands and Bruno Mars.
Am going to cross Pacific on a wooden raft to support a theory that the South Sea islands were peopled from Peru. Will you come? I guarantee nothing but a free trip to Peru and the South Sea islands and back, but you will find good use for your technical abilities on the voyage. Reply at once. ' Next day the following telegram arrived from Torstein: COMING. TORSTEIN.
Content isn't king. If I sent you to a desert island and gave you the choice of taking your friends or your movies, you'd choose your friends -- if you chose the movies, we'd call you a sociopath. Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.
The undersea world surrounding Green Island looks just like a water fairyland.
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.
The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.
Hy gododin catann hue Hud a lledrith mal wyddan Gaunce ae bellawn wen cabri Varigal don Fincayra Dravia, dravia Fincayra (Talking trees and walking stones, Giants aare the island's bones. While this land our dance still knows, Varigal crowns Fincayra. Live long, live long Fincayra.
Despite the fact that an Indonesian island chicken has probably had a much more natural life than one raised on a battery farm in England, people who wouldn't think twice about buying something oven-ready become much more upset about a chicken that they've been on a boat with, so there is probably buried in the Western psyche a deep taboo about eating anything you've been introduced to socially.
I'm from an island, so I've always been near the water. I don't think I could live somewhere far from the sea.
Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne.
Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time.