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Orkney Islands

[ awrk-nee ]

plural noun

  1. an island group off the NE tip of Scotland. 340 sq. mi. (880 sq. km).


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I was lying quiet those days, about forty years ago, off the north of the Orkney Islands.

Some years afterwards Mr. Wynn learned that he was engaged in the fish trade in one of the Orkney Islands.

In the latter half of the fourteenth century, the Orkney Islands passed into the hands of his descendants.

In the southern districts of Scotland, and in the Orkney Islands, the inhabitants preferred the increase of the moon for it.

Mr. President:—In the Orkney Islands there is a cathedral described by the guide as of two parts—the old and the new.

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