Sheppey

noun

Isle of Sheppey an island in SE England, off the N coast of Kent in the Thames estuary: separated from the mainland by The Swale, a narrow channel. Chief towns: Sheerness, Minster. Pop: 37 852 (2001 est). Area: 80 sq km (30 sq miles)

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Ahead the northeast headland of the Isle of Sheppey was bulking large and near.
The Black Bag
Louis Joseph Vance
Other accounts say that these nuns were removed to Minster, in Sheppey.
The Dover Road
Charles G. Harper
I did a little at Sheppey, but it's so hard for a poor man to get his hands on a machine.
Marriage
H. G. Wells
And more, fruits and seeds are found in it, especially at the Isle of Sheppey.
Town Geology
Charles Kingsley
In that same year, "heathen men sat over winter in Sheppey."
Early Britain
Grant Allen

Sheppey

Examples from the Web for sheppey

Historical Examples

Ahead the northeast headland of the Isle of Sheppey was bulking large and near.

Other accounts say that these nuns were removed to Minster, in Sheppey.

I did a little at Sheppey, but it's so hard for a poor man to get his hands on a machine.

And more, fruits and seeds are found in it, especially at the Isle of Sheppey.

In that same year, "heathen men sat over winter in Sheppey."