Sentence examples for this speck of land from inspiring English sources

It's my 14th trip to this speck of land at the ocean's edge, and this has been my morning ritual for years, a rare quiet spot in the tumbling stream of modern life to let the mind unreel and reflect.

Now this speck of land has re-emerged, a product of a 50-year plan to deal with the excavation from an expansion of the Houston-Galveston Navigation Channel.

The behemoth of a building astride this speck of land, a monastery in the 17th century, eventually became an insane asylum and most Venetians and tourists did not bother with it.

Tigher has previously produced an "ointment pot" and some small bones of unidentifiable origin as possible evidence that Earhart or her navigator John Noonan made it to the speck of land.

The seven UK nominations the island of St Helena, that speck of land in the south Atlantic where Napoleon was imprisoned; Quarr, a 20th-century abbey on the Isle of Wight; Newstead Abbey, Byron's family home; and the medieval ruins of Coventry's old cathedral, levelled by a night of German bombing but still standing beside Sir Basil Spence's new building.

There was no radio, no hospital and no store here on this remote speck of land in the heart of the South Pacific.

Such an encounter is regular on this tiny speck of land, which would be deserted were it not for two sleepy resorts (pompomisland.com).

HANGA ROA, Easter Island — Not long ago, as some elders of the Rapanui people wistfully recall, a sense of profound isolation pervaded this windswept speck of land in the Pacific.

The heavily laden ships came for 12 years, wending their way past the lush, low-slung islands that fill this sea, to dump their cargoes of shredded automobiles and other toxic waste on this sparsely inhabited speck of land.

Chief among them are the disputes among China, Japan, South Korea and several others over numerous islands in the East China and South China Seas, and the mineral, oil and gas rights to these specks of land.

Japan has warned China that ties are "deteriorating markedly" over disputed East China Sea islets, as China's envoy in Tokyo reiterated Beijing's stance that the specks of land were its territory and called for talks to resolve the row.