"Perhaps [they used it] when the Viking sailors encountered islands or ice packs during their travels".
Staying at the bed and breakfast of Miss Molly Rowley on Main Street, Henry encountered island horse breeder Clarence Beebe, visited his ranch on the southern portion of the island, and met his grandchildren Maureen and Paul.
Some of those, South Koreans say, are brief and tearful encounters on islands in the Yalu River, where aging southerners often learn of the deaths or disappearances of loved ones.
The first Europeans to encounter the island were the French, when explorer Samuel Champlain first sighted it in 1604 16 years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock.
Had I encountered "Sakhalin Island" first, I wonder if I would have thought that Chekhov should have written more journalism.
Ms. Korot's slow blurring of the Bikini islanders makes them look like a Gauguin and places the bomb test in a history of Western encounters with island paradises.
When man encountered the island, he wondered where the roar of the ocean ended and the tone of the mist began.
No romance of the sea would be complete, naturally, without such nautical pit stops and pitfalls as encounters with island or indigenous populations, a loss of a ship or two, sexually transmitted diseases, and cannibalism.
I first encountered the island when my sister bought a house here a few years ago.
