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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

Directed by Dean DuBlois, it tells the story of how a human and dragon befriend each other, breaking generations of conflict between dragons and Vikings on the fictional isle of Berk.

From BBC ● May 7, 2025

Then he set off with his new master through the steep slanting forests of the mountain isle, through the leaves and shadows of bright autumn.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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

Shetland Islands Council says it is pushing ahead with plans to build tunnels to four outlying isles in the archipelago including Unst, the most northerly place in the UK.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2025

Asha was as good a finger dancer as any man on the isles and had ten fingers to prove it.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

For three days the heavens descended in a downpour that made the river a roaring torrent and isled the two log houses on their hillocks.

From The Emigrant Trail by Geraldine Bonner

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

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

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