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Seven Isles

American  

noun

  1. a city in SE Quebec, in E Canada, on the St. Lawrence, near its mouth.


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Next day we came to seven high round islands, which we named the Seven Isles, which stretch 3 or 4 leagues out to sea, and are 40 leagues from the southern shore of the gulf.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

The two men, so differently haunted by Freya of the Seven Isles, were not equally matched.

From 'Twixt Land and Sea by Conrad, Joseph

He as good as asked me whether I wouldn’t undertake to hint to Jasper that he was not wanted at the Seven Isles group. 

From 'Twixt Land and Sea by Conrad, Joseph

Of course, these seas are almost uniformly serene, and the Seven Isles is a particularly calm and cloudless spot as a rule. 

From 'Twixt Land and Sea by Conrad, Joseph

But there was nobody suitable within the Seven Isles group, as far as I knew. 

From 'Twixt Land and Sea by Conrad, Joseph

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