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Definition of Insulars
1. insular [n] - See also: insular
Lexicographical Neighbors of Insulars
Literary usage of Insulars
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Marching with Gomez: A War Correspondent's Field Notebook, Kept During Four by Grover Flint, John Fiske (1898)
"These favored immigrants in Cuba form the class of " Peninsulars," while the
native Cuban Creoles are distinguished as the " insulars. ..."
2. The General Grievances and Oppression of the Isles of Orkney and Shetland by James Mackenzie (1836)
"Therefore, by these insulars there was a tribute then due to the King of Norway,
which was afterwards to be paid to the King of Scots; and yet of them the ..."
3. Annual Report of the Chief, Children's Bureau to the Secretary of Labor by United States Children's Bureau, United States, Children's Bureau (1921)
"Race, sex, and age of immigrant aliens admitted in continental United States from
insular United States, and in insular United States from other insulars ..."
4. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1898)
"Figure you, dear Mister, these insulars, these enraged ones, playing at the
cricket by a such heat I 7.KI/. Kolossal! Aug. Parfaitement! ..."
5. The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de ( Cervantes Saavedra, Henry Edward Watts (1888)
"... you will always find your Isle, when you return, where you left it, and your
insulars with the same desire to receive you for their governor as they ..."
6. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1875)
"... everything beyond our own 'syver-stre; " of sea, till the combined effects of
long peace and of steam transformed us from insulars to cosmopolitans. ..."
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