island
/ˈaɪ.lənd/ verb C2- To surround with water; make into an island.
- To set, dot (as if) with islands. · the many-islanded Aegean
- To isolate.
He/she/it islands · Past islanded · Past participle islanded · -ing form islanding
Verb forms
- Base form
- island
- He/she/it
- islands
- Past
- islanded
- Past participle
- islanded
- -ing form
- islanding
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Why, it was only last week I read in the paper how a man and his wife up west of the Island took a boy out of an orphan asylum and he set fire to the house at night--set it _on purpose_, Marilla--and nearly burnt them to a crisp in their beds.
And then Nova Scotia is right close to the Island.
Matthew enjoyed the drive after his own fashion, except during the moments when he met women and had to nod to them--for in Prince Edward Island you are supposed to nod to all and sundry you meet on the road whether you know them or not.
I felt cheered up right away and I enjoyed my trip to the Island with all my might.
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