Sentence examples for fictional isle from inspiring English sources
Robert Louis Stevenson read about one such expedition in a San Francisco newspaper before writing Treasure Island, and some argue that the map he drew of his "fictional" isle closely resembles numerous treasure charts of Coco.
"Once on This Island," a fairy tale with book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Flaherty, begins by explaining a similar but thoroughly local dichotomy on a fictional Antilles isle.
His Lyonesse trilogy is set during the Middle Ages in the Elder Isles, a fictional archipelago where daily life is animated by political rivalries and the spells of witches and magicians.
Among the scores of Dave Gormans he has found, Mr. Gorman numbers Jewish Dave Gormans, including a 90-year-old Israeli; a Norwegian Dave Gorman; Irish and Canadian Dave Gormans; a Dave Gorman on the Isle of Wight; and a fictional Dave Gorman, excavated from the nether regions of the credits for the 1997 film "The Ice Storm".
The setting is a fictional bayou territory, partly modelled on the real Isle de Jean Charles in southern Louisiana, the kind of place where, in another, more heartless type of movie, yuppies might ask for directions or gasoline from sinister locals inscrutably playing a mean banjo on their crumbling porch.
She had dropped out of university and was offered a job as assistant cook at the Bird Observatory on Fair Isle - which features in Blue Lightning and is where fictional detective Perez grew up.
The Encantadas, ten fictional sketches by Herman Melville, published in 1854 in Putnam's Monthly Magazine as "The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles," under the pseudonym Salvator R. Tarnmoor.
Presque Isle, Marquette, Mich.
