New Zealand's South Island, New Caledonia, the Solomons and the marianas were gobbled at the same moment.
"Greener Than You Think"
Ward Moore
But how cold and gaudy, in spite of individual beauties, is that poem by the side of either of the marianas, and especially of the one in which the scenery is drawn, simply and faithfully, from those counties which the world considers the quintessence of the prosaic-the English fens.
"Literary and General Lectures and Essays"
Charles Kingsley