Santa Maura
Americannoun
noun
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These people like many others suffered greatly from the Turks, and took refuge in Santa Maura, which has excited in them a feeling of gratitude for the protection of their English neighbors.
From Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel by Yeardley, John
Then through the hours of darkness the fleet worked its way past the rock-bound shores of Santa Maura, whose cliffs glimmered in the moonlight.
From Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima by Hale, John Richard
Soon Santa Maura comes in sight:— Leucatæ nimbosa cacumina montis, Et formidatus nautis aperitur Apollo.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by Symonds, John Addington
Lafcadio was born at Santa Maura, the modern name for the ancient Leucadia of the Greeks.
From Lafcadio Hearn by Kennard, Nina H.
As the steamer crossed from Santa Maura to Cephalonia we had a clear view of little Ithaca, the Ithaca which Ulysses loved, "not because it was broad, but because it was his own."
From Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
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