Lundy Isle

[ luhn-dee ]

noun

1. an island at the mouth of the Bristol Channel, off Devon, SW England: historic refuge for pirates and smugglers. 1.5 sq. mi. (4 sq. km).

Example Sentences

Beyond Trevose Head, with its view from Cape Cornwall to Lundy Isle, the land curves inward past the rocky ridges and big rolling sand-dunes of Constantine.

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The locality she had chosen was a sheltered village on the north coast of Somerset, just where Exmoor began to give p. 35grandeur to the outline in the rear, and in front the Welsh hills wore different tints of purple or gray, according to the promise of weather, Lundy Isle and the two lesser ones serving as the most prominent objects, as they rose from—Well, well!

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He slunk away first to his home at Afton, where all, gentle and poor, banned him, and thence to Lundy Isle.

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They were marching now in time to gain their ships and be off as the last man stepped on board, with the full draft of the ebb to set them out to sea beyond Lundy Isle, into open water.

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