Sentence examples for islands speaking from inspiring English sources

He maintained that he could construct impromptu a sentence of up to 40 subordinate clauses "and many a native of these islands, speaking English as to the manner born, has followed me trustingly into the labyrinth only to perish miserably trying to find the way out".

Captain Sundstrom and Mr. Robertson tell stories of negroes on the island, speaking with great racial prejudices.

Most people on the island speak a French patois; English is for the well-educated élite.

English is the predominant language of the island, spoken by more than nine-tenths of residents; relatively few Prince Edward Islanders speak only French.

Oh, and the island speaks – and it's electromagnetically adrift in time and space thanks to a giant frozen wheel at its core.

A healthcare worker on the island speaks of a constant tension between advocating for their patients and resistance from the immigration department to transfer asylum seekers in need of advanced medical care to the Australian mainland.

Most people on the island speak Welsh, and to them it is Ynys Môn, or just Môn.

Fire Island spoke to me when it needed me and vice versa.

Lady Grange's circumstances were correspondingly more uncomfortable and no-one on the island spoke any English.

In 2001 29% of the population of the island spoke Gaelic and maintaining this heritage is one of the aims of the Comann Eachdraidh Lios Mòr, the Lismore Gaelic Heritage Centre.

It is the mother of all the islands, geographically speaking, with a length of nearly eight hundred miles, but it is not exempted from the Atlantic tropical storms and hurricanes that sweep in at the end every end of summer, sometimes with devastating effects.