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  • If they could jump the gap, they could take refuge among the columns on the islandlike platform over there.

    THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010

  • If they could jump the gap, they could take refuge among the columns on the islandlike platform over there.

    THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010

  • If they could jump the gap, they could take refuge among the columns on the islandlike platform over there.

    THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010

  • The avatars, or digitally produced characters that represent the people playing the online game, departed from Second Life's "grid" of servers and landed on a portion of a green, islandlike world IBM engineered using software developed by a community of programmers -- what the tech world calls an open-source project.

    Linden Avatars Boldly Go 2008

  • Mounted atop the islandlike platform, aimed upward like a satellite dish, stood the fabled Mirror of the Lighthouse of Alexandria.

    Seven Deadly Wonders Matthew Reilly 2006

  • Mounted atop the islandlike platform, aimed upward like a satellite dish, stood the fabled Mirror of the Lighthouse of Alexandria.

    Seven Deadly Wonders Matthew Reilly 2006

  • Mounted atop the islandlike platform, aimed upward like a satellite dish, stood the fabled Mirror of the Lighthouse of Alexandria.

    Seven Deadly Wonders Matthew Reilly 2006

  • Mustering up diplomacy she inquired, “Did you bring something islandlike for tonight?”

    “I Don’t Have a Thing to Wear” Judie Taggart 2003

  • Mustering up diplomacy she inquired, “Did you bring something islandlike for tonight?”

    “I Don’t Have a Thing to Wear” Judie Taggart 2003

  • One end of it contained a pool about twenty meters wide, crowded with islandlike formations.

    Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998

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