There now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by coral reefs.
With these he held undisputed sway over his insular domains, and carried on intercourse with the chiefs or governors whom he had placed in command of the several islands.
Harriet was fretful and insular. Miss Abbott was pleasant, and insisted on praising everything.
e had a fine pride in himself, was even a trifle egotistical, as country gentlemen sometimes become because of their insular situation.
The first thing the separatists desired was to get rid of the Peninsuar Spaniard; the next to go would have been the insular Spaniard, then the Spanish mestizo, then the chinee half-caste and the chinee; after which would come the gradual extinction of the various tribes.