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An Irish carpenter acquired the isle in Florida’s Lake Marion in the 1880s and built the main house by hand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

The 24-hour guard-gated island is home to fewer than 50 single-family homes—which occupy about three quarters of the isle, while the rest is home to a few condo buildings and hotels.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 2026

Like Santorini, Milos is a volcanic isle that is home to one of Greece's most unique beaches, Sarakiniko.

From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026

Swona's last islanders left in 1974, but a herd of cows descended from the livestock once farmed on the isle in Orkney still survive.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2025

The entire western half of the isle at the center of Paris was trapped inside those walls.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

The contested isles are part of the volcanic Kuril archipelago, which runs in a broad arc from Russia's Kamchatka peninsula down to Japan's main northern island Hokkaido.

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

Searching out the echoes of the Celtic foundation, Mr. Robb expresses the current mood of the isles and Western Europe more broadly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

At the very least, it has gorgeous shots of the sun-soaked Greek isles.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2025

In the depths of winter, Scotland's northern isles will see barely six hours of daylight from morning till night.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2025

I know only that I looked across the houses, inlets, and isles of my youth, and was sensible that I had to leave them behind.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Here Rose and Magnolia   Our dearest enshrine, The prayer of the south wind   Is thine and is mine,           For Child and for Mother             Here sweetly twice isled,           Brave Seamen are praying             For Mother and Child.

From Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses by John Douglas Sutherland Campbell

The aspect of the windows is nearly south, and the prospect includes the plain of the Marchfeld, with the isled Danube and Lobau in the extreme distance.

From The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy

You are isled from accustomed cares and worries -- you are set in a peculiar nook of rest.

From Pagan Papers by Kenneth Grahame

Tho’ all men else their nobler dreams forget, Confused by brainless mobs and lawless Powers; Thank Him who isled us here, and roughly set His Briton in blown seas and storming showers...

From Tennyson and His Friends by Various

Nay, rather, isled amid the stream— Watching the flood—and, half in dream Guessing the sources whence it rose, And musing to what Deep it flows.

From The Poems of William Watson by William Watson