Eyots

Riding to the eastwards, and skirting the river some four miles below the town, she and her knights forded it at a spot where some low long islands, or 'eyots' as we call them on the Thames, lay in this part of the Loire. ❋ Gower, Ronald Sutherland, Lord, 1845-1916 (1893)

Now were the days wearing toward wheat-harvest, and nought befel to tell of, save that on a morn the witch-wife called Birdalone to her, and said: Now is little to be done till the wheat is ready for the hook, and thy days are idle; or what is that word that fell from thee that other day, that there be good swims for fish about the eyots? ❋ Unknown (2007)

Albeit, less than a half mile from the shore lay two eyots, as it might have been on the salt sea; but one of these sat low down on the water, and was green and well bushed, but the other, which lay east of it, and was nigher to the shore, was high, rocky, and barren. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And they had their fishing-gear with them, and angled off the eyots a good part of the day, and had good catch, and swam back therewith merrily. ❋ Unknown (2007)

As they went, the knight fell a-talking to Birdalone, and that without any of the covert jeering which he had used erewhile; and he showed her places in the dale, as caverns under the burgs, and little eyots in the stream, and certain stones amongst the ❋ Unknown (2007)

Wore the days thenceforth merrily; and one day it was delight in the wide meads, and another they went a long way west along the water-side, and so into another meadow-plain, smaller than their home — plain, which Birdalone had never erst come into; and three eyots lay off it, green and tree-beset, whereto they swam out together. ❋ Unknown (2007)

They pause at intervals to rest under cover of the tall reeds and on the eyots. ❋ Rudel, Hans-Ulrich (1973)

Still there are dangerous places even before we come there: rocks and stony eyots in the stream. ❋ Tolkien, J. R. R. (1965)

Far to the west in a haze lay the meres and eyots through which it wound its way to the Greyflood: there countless swans housed in a land of reeds. ❋ Tolkien, J. R. R. (1954)

The burning, suffocating heat of the summer "in the States," caused me to pant after the cool shade of the old Prebend's walk at Saint Canon's; and call to mind those inviting lawns and osiered eyots along the ❋ Unknown (N/A)

So in these years we may suppose that the first building had risen on the site of the Cathedral, with St. Herbland's earliest church in front, and upon other eyots in the Seine the shrines of St. Martin de la Roquette, St. Clément, and St. Eloi. ❋ Theodore Andrea Cook (1897)

Cité and the southern bank; two islands, the Isles de Notre Dame and des Vaches, divided by a narrow channel to the east, and two eyots, the Isles des Juifs and de Bussy, to the west. ❋ Thomas Okey (1893)

Loire lay plain before them, its sandbanks grilling in the sun, and grey lines of willows marking its eyots. ❋ Stanley John Weyman (1891)

It has 151 miles of fresh water and 77 of tideway, and is almost the only river in England in which there are islands, the famous eyots, the lowest and largest of which at Chiswick touches the London boundary. ❋ Unknown (1882)

It has been said that Thames eyots always seem to have been put in place by a landscape gardener. ❋ Unknown (1882)

The migration is only a partial one, for many remain on the Thames all the year round, especially near the eyots by Tilehurst; but it vanishes from most of the Northern pools and returns almost on the same date. ❋ Unknown (1882)

Past sandy eyots where the shifting shoals make head. ❋ Archibald Lampman (1880)

The little church was somewhat poorly attended on this fine autumn evening, when the hunter's moon hung like a big golden shield above the river, glorifying the dipping willows, the narrow eyots, haunts of swan and cygnet, and the distant woodlands of Surrey. ❋ Unknown (1875)

I went to an [eyot] this [summer] and pciked up a [babe]. ❋ Rentastrawberry (2004)