101.   Green water snakes sun themselves on islands of waterlilies.

102.   Greenspan warned last year that the United States could not long remain an island of prosperity, but it has.

103.   Ground covers almost never get walked on and trees are planted in islands of mulch that also are rarely trod upon.

104.   He is an island of tranquility in a vicious occupation.

105.   He calls it his island of bliss.

106.   He proposed extending branches from the Channel Tunnel to the islands of Guernsey and Jersey so all of Britain could be declared a tax haven.

107.   Here in the islands of Spitsbergen in the high Arctic between mainland Norway and Greenland, the ground three feet down is always frozen in permafrost.

108.   Heavy showers have come to the northern islands of Borneo and Sumatra, dousing the vast forest fires that have blanketed parts of seven nations with a murky haze.

109.   His solution, legend has long had it, was to retreat from the bustle of Athens to a cave on the island of his birth, Salamis.

110.   His plan was to head to some remote island of the South Pacific, but he got no farther than Paris.