the Orkneys

To the locals, he realized, the Orkneys were the center of the world.

The Orkneys need tourism - the islands are poor, and ever have been.

In the Orkneys the name is applied to the itch.

The chief exports of the Orkneys, the saying goes, are beef and professors.

Wherever you are in the Orkneys, the birds are there, too.

"In the Orkneys, my friend, we are not asking of each other's business," he said chidingly.

The atmosphere and hospitality of the Orkneys made a great impression on all our crews.

The Orkneys are geared up for tourism these days but, thanks be, that has not changed the character of the islands.

My own engagement with the Orkneys centers upon birds and archeology.

At the end of February, a ship arrived from the Orkneys with definite news.

The Orkneys are fertile islands, they tell me, and fine in the summer months, but tend to be cut off from the main all winter?"

It looked like it reached from mid-Scotland to the Orkneys.

Driving along the southern coast of the main island, he found that his mental image of the Orkneys had been entirely wrong.

"The Orkneys are a major base for the sea empire of the Norsemen," he explained.

Him from the Orkneys, with his fancy suit of armour and his fine manner!"

The relatively simple geology of the Orkneys was completed in 3 years and the memoir appeared in 1935.

The first solitary bomb fell in the Orkneys in October 1939.

The lonely beaches here possess a stark, tranquil beauty, as they also do across the water on the Orkneys.

On the road to the Orkneys, there is enough local color to fill a "Rough Guide."

The Orkneys are time made manifest.

She said, "Most of us grew up in the Hebrides or even the Orkneys.

He was in the Orkneys.

Then they returned to the Orkneys."

Highland malts are produced from that line northward to Skye and the Orkneys.

Everything coexists on the Orkneys.