Orkney Islands

How to use Orkney Islands in a sentence

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

  Atlantic Narratives | Mary Antin

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

  The Cambrian Sketch-Book | R. Rice Davies

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

  Celebrated Travels and Travellers | Jules Verne

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

  Moon Lore | Timothy Harley

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

  Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O | Various