Grand Canary
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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They were happily escaping rain, strong winds and some snow for individual vacations at resorts of their choice on Grand Canary Island, about 40 miles southeast of Tenerife.
From Time Magazine Archive
A fair example of the microbe movie, Grand Canary, adapted from A. J. Cronin's best seller, is small, erratic, commonplace.
From Time Magazine Archive
Grand Canary, the most fertile island of the group, is nearly circular in shape, with a diameter of 24 m. and a circumference of 75 m.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
She was looking out across the shimmering Atlantic toward the blue peaks of Grand Canary, beyond which stretched the coast of Africa.
From The League of the Leopard by Bindloss, Harold
The seventh island they call Grand Canary, in which there will be five thousand fighting men.
From The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea Vol. II by Zurara, Gomes Eannes de
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