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Islay

noun
1.
California evergreen wild plum with spiny leathery leaves and white flowers.  Synonyms: evergreen cherry, holly-leaf cherry, holly-leaved cherry, Prunus ilicifolia.
2.
An island of western Scotland at the southern end of the Inner Hebrides.






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"Islay" Quotes from Famous Books



... has its roots in folk-lore, but it is so remoulded in the mind of the writer that it is rather a re-creation of the old belief than a restoration of it. There are those who would rather have had Sharp follow the tales as they are told by Campbell of Islay, Cameron of Brodick, and Carmichael of South Uist, but to me, unless the tale is one familiar to many readers, such a remoulding, if done with power, is surely a prerogative of the artist. But when he takes a well-known legendary character, ...
— Irish Plays and Playwrights • Cornelius Weygandt

... can this be, whom not in vain the ardent Hebrew wooed? She was, she must have been, as Grosley saw, the heroine of Victor Hugo's Ruy Blas. The unhappy Charles II. of Spain, a kind of "mammet" (as the English called the Richard II. who appeared up in Islay, having escaped from Pomfret Castle), had for his first wife a daughter of Henrietta, the favorite sister of our Charles II. This childless bride, after some ghostly years of matrimony, after being exorcised in disgusting circumstances, died in February, 1689. In May, 1690 ...
— The Lock and Key Library/Real Life #2 • Julian Hawthorne

... resolved to become a man of family himself. His father had left Scotland when very young, and bore, I blush to say, the vulgar name of Scrogie. This hapless dissyllable my uncle carried in person to the herald office in Scotland; but neither Lyon, nor Marchmont, nor Islay, nor Snadoun, neither herald nor pursuivant, would patronise Scrogie.—Scrogie!—there could nothing be made out of it—so that my worthy relative had recourse to the surer side of the house, and began to found his dignity on his mother's name of Mowbray. In this he was much more successful, ...
— St. Ronan's Well • Sir Walter Scott



Words linked to "Islay" :   island, Inner Hebrides, holly-leaf cherry, evergreen cherry, wild plum, wild plum tree, holly-leaved cherry



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