How To Use Spice islands In A Sentence
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Look at those hollyhocks, like pyramids of roses; those garlands of the convolvulus major of all colours, hanging around that tall pole, like the wreathy hop-bine; those magnificent dusky cloves, breathing of the Spice Islands; those flaunting double dahlias; those splendid scarlet geraniums, and those fierce and warlike flowers the tiger-lilies.
Our Village
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European explorers - first the Portuguese in search of the Spice Islands (Indonesia) and then the Spanish - reached the Carolines in the 16th century, with the Spanish establishing sovereignty.
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This island and several in a line to the south of it are known as the Moluccas, or Spice Islands.
In the Eastern Seas
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As for the "carnation houses," they made us think of spice islands floating on seas of green; the "pansy houses" were beds of gold and amethyst; the "violet houses" and "smilax greeneries," perfect visions of spring.
Harper's Young People, March 23, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly
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The Spice Islands were within the Spanish domains.
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He and I used to sail together to the Spice Islands to trade in vitamin pills and conch shells.
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The hotspot, which occupies a total land area of 338,494 km2, includes the large island of Sulawesi and also the Moluccas, or Spice Islands, and the Lesser Sundas (which encompasses Timor Leste, and the Indonesia region of Nusa Tenggara).
Biological diversity in Wallacea
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ZANZIBAR: The Tanzanian spice islands of Zanzibar and Pemba were tense as delayed presidential and parliamentary voting took place in three constituencies.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Nutmeg, another mystical tree from the Spice Islands, gets the oils distilled from the kernels of its fruits - the nutmeg itself.
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The Javanese and Sumatran rulers who'd claimed tributes from the Spice Islands would have been oblivious to its existence, and Prabir had been unable to locate it on any Dutch or Portuguese chart that had been scanned and placed on the net.
Free Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Teranesia 1 - Greg Egan
