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Sentence Examples A former West Indies player taught me my run-up back in 1999, at Kensington Cricket Club. West Indies strolled to a composed victory over Sri Lanka to book their place in the semi-finals. Sir Gawaine's British West Indies collection is part of a wider comprehensive collection of stamps from Great Britain and the British Empire. James II's queen and courtiers took profits from the sale of those transported to the West Indies. Baugh, Bravo, Mohammed and company may not be household names, but they have dragged West Indies back into this match and series. Go to my gallery for pictures from the 1st One Day international cricket match between the West Indies and South Africa. The island of Puerto Rico is the most easterly of the Greater Antilles group of the West Indies island chain. Nearly all the slaves were brought to Bermuda from the West Indies or as slaves on ships captured by Bermuda privateers. West Indies won the inaugural Test 13 years ago, but had to rely on some unsportsmanlike tactics to avoid defeat five years ago. England have tonked the West Indies for their first series victory in the Caribbean for 36 years. The West Indies were constrained early in their chase by some healthy swing bowling aided by the overcast conditions. They have again named an unchanged side, albeit one with a few chinks in the armour which West Indies could exploit. The biggest factor that turned the game India's way in Barbados was the inept batting by West Indies. These characteristics must become second nature for West Indies cricketers at all levels. It occurs along coastal beaches of the West Indies and Central America, where its dense thickets are often cultivated to provide a windbreak. Fugitive slaves from the West Indies or Guyana, or their descendants, were called Maroons. Chris Gayle and Wavell Hinds are both unreliable dashers, and West Indies can afford only one such player at the top. That plan appeared to be well on course until a flurry of wickets shortly after tea had West Indies wobbling. It is our hope and prayer that the humpback and other whales will be protected in the West Indies and other parts of the world. He was summoned to treat a wounded man who turned out to be a rebel, was arrested with his patient, and sent to the West Indies as a white slave. Show More Sentences Bob Woolmer, the Pakistan coach, has maintained that his team will not take West Indies lightly in spite of whitewashing them in the one-dayers. Last summer, West Indies slumped to their first series defeat against England for 31 years and were then whitewashed 5-0 in Australia. Such a situation would not be possible in unilingual sides like the Australian or the English or the West Indies. The contracts were signed by the players on the opening day of the first Test against West Indies. I know that you have already rededicated and recommitted yourself to West Indies cricket and its success. The analysts and critics have all been outputting their views as to the reason why the West Indies came out of the game with such distinction. The West Indies team in the fifth Test against England at The Oval in 2000 included eight left-handed batsmen. The new West Indies management team seemed to have had a liking for the use of cutting-edge technology in its verbal assault. They won all four league games and lost the final to West Indies in the Triangular in Zimbabwe. Substitute David Mutendera needlessly had a shy at the striker's end and the resultant overthrow fetched the West Indies four valuable runs. If they batted the overs West Indies would win so Vaughan had to go for the kill and Browne and Bradshaw stonewalled defiantly. In the aboriginal period the Cariban languages were important in the West Indies, Brazil, Peru, the Guianas, Venezuela, and Colombia. Kallis was hit on the right elbow after attempting to hook a short pitched delivery from West Indies opening bowler Fidel Edwards. At any given time in our history, West Indies cricket has drawn on the available pool of young, talented and capable males for its sustenance. After the lunch interval the West Indies began their reply backed by an expectant crowd. For the West Indies, Gayle got a century, not made at his usual frenetic pace. The latest crisis in West Indies cricket and the unceremonious sacking of the best WI talent is the ultimate insult to West Indians. Okra and sweet potatoes are important vegetables, and callaloo figures as often as it does in the West Indies. I'll whisper this in case it is too much of a shot in the dark but I believe West Indies will win at least one Test in England. Ramnaresh Sarwan steered West Indies to a comfortable six-wicket win over England in their one-off Twenty20 match on Sunday. Show More Sentences It is the name given to various green leaves which form the chief ingredient of the soup called callaloo, popular in the West Indies and Brazil. He played 29 tests for India and scored 1202 runs including a hundred against West Indies. In the same series, a camera panned to a West Indies fielder sheltering under a large umbrella. To my mind there is nobody better suited than Lloyd for the job of president of the West Indies Cricket Board. On a cold, damp December day in Bexley, who could blame anyone for dreaming of sun-drenched beaches in the West Indies? In 1585 he travelled to the West Indies and the coast of Florida where he sacked and plundered Spanish cities. The police have a success rate in interdicting the flow of arms that is even more dismal than the recent record of the West Indies cricket team. England's win against West Indies last year broke a sequence of nine decisive matches which were all won by the team fielding first. Although widely prolific in the West Indies, they have not flourished in this country, and cowpeas have more or less supplanted them. During the 19th century, cocus wood became available from the West Indies and quickly became the standard timber for flutes and other woodwinds from that period. The range of the cero mackerel is limited to the western Atlantic Ocean, from Massachusetts, USA south to Brazil, including the Bahamas and West Indies. We have ploughed a phosphorescent furrow in the darkness through chunky, Atlantic seas, windward of the West Indies, from Barbados down to Tobago. The capacity of North America to pay for its imports on such a scale depended to a considerable degree on its earnings from supplying the plantations of the West Indies. The West Indies bowlers pegged away determinedly, while the Sri Lankan batsmen were in no mood to throw away their wickets before the showers came. He joined the navy as a midshipman when he was 16, and two years later sailed with Captain Bligh on the expedition to carry breadfruit plants from Tahiti to the West Indies. His favourite shots were drives straight down the wicket and through the covers, but he also produced the occasional cut to pile on the agony for the West Indies attack. Students of the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies who use vulgar language and dress lewdly have been publicly chided by a senior tutor. It was another historic match, a tough fight between bat and ball, but at the end the target of 313 proved to be a bit too much for the West Indies. But as Challenger approached the West Indies the crew encountered a phenomenon that dwarfed in importance even the discovery of manganese nodules. For some years now the West Indies bowling has been very weak indeed. Show More Sentences He was once commissioned to write a history of West Indies cricket, but got so immersed in the research that he overran the wordage by several thousand. In all my born days I have never seen a West Indies side capitulate as often, as feebly or as carelessly as this one has done time and time again. There was the hope to gain some advantage in the West Indies. Voodoo is the official religion of Haiti and was brought into the West Indies nation by African slaves. In the West Indies they make a really sickly sweet potato pudding. Tiger Pataudi, following the nasty injury to Nari Contractor in the West Indies, was pitchforked when he did not even know Indian cricket so well. His exuberance and unflagging talents were duly noted by West Indies selectors and it wasn't long before he became a member of the West Indies under-19 team. The synchronized dance has locations from the West Indies to Austria and Hong Kong to Australia. He was the first Anguillan to be called up to the senior West Indies team. The floodlit one-day international between West Indies and New Zealand A at Bristol was abandoned without a ball being bowled because of persistent heavy rain. The West Indies image, taken by Glaswegian royal photographer Harry Benson, was found undeveloped in a roll of archived film. Both species of the solenodon of the West Indies also are poisonous. The solenodons diverged from all other mammal groups an incredible 76 million years ago and were, until recently, among the dominant predators of the West Indies. A triangular trade with New England, the West Indies, and Europe gave Newfoundland an important economic role. Bahamas is not a part of the West Indies Cricket Board, so players are not eligible to play for the West Indies cricket team. The Danish West Indies became an insular area of the US, called the United States Virgin Islands. The West Indies cricket team includes participants from Guyana, which is geographically located in South America. In addition to being part of the Anglophone Caribbean, Guyana is one of the few Caribbean countries that is not an island in the West Indies. Guyana shares similar interests with the islands in the West Indies, such as food, festive events, music, sports, etc. They contributed to the establishment of the Dutch West Indies Company in 1621, and some were members of the directorate. Show More Sentences Products brought from Asia were sent to Acapulco then overland to Veracruz, and then shipped to Spain aboard the West Indies Fleets. It performed excellently, but the perfectionist in Harrison prevented him from sending it on the required trial to the West Indies. Van Spilbergen was at his deathbed and took Le Maire's report of his trip, which he included in his book Mirror of the East and West Indies. Unfortunately, by then, the Dutch West Indies Company had claimed the same waters. By 1778, the French were importing approximately 13,000 Africans for enslavement yearly to the French West Indies. As of 1778, it was estimated that the Dutch were shipping approximately 6,000 Africans for enslavement in the Dutch West Indies each year. In 1811, Arthur William Hodge was executed for the murder of a slave in the British West Indies. In 1958, it became a province in the Federation of the West Indies, a federation among the British West Indies. The general practice in the West Indies was to baptize, add color, and otherwise adulterate rum to make it appear better. The Jamaica national cricket team competes regionally, and also provides players for the West Indies team. Chris Gayle is the most renowned batsman from Jamaica currently representing the West Indies cricket team. The Caribbean islands, or West Indies, are considered part of North America. In the West Indies, the prevailing winds, known as the trade winds, blow out of the southeast. The Windward Islands are the southern, generally larger islands of the Lesser Antilles, within the West Indies. Trinidad and Tobago is represented at Test cricket, One Day International as well as Twenty20 cricket level as a member of the West Indies team. The Queen's Park Oval located in Port of Spain is the largest cricket ground in the West Indies. By 1650 there were 44,000 settlers in the West Indies, as compared to 12,000 on the Chesapeake and 23,000 in New England. Barbados is situated in the Atlantic Ocean, east of the other West Indies Islands. It was introduced to the West Indies in the late 17th century when slave trade ships travelled to the Caribbean from West Africa. When Loyalists left the South in 1783, they took thousands of their slaves with them to be slaves in the British West Indies. Show More Sentences American rebels obtained some munitions through the Dutch Republic as well as French and Spanish ports in the West Indies. Others sailed with the British to England or were resettled as freedmen in the West Indies of the Caribbean. Inniss believed that the bill was unconstitutional, and would soon be struck down by the West Indies Associated States Supreme Court. In 1786, as a result of this tuition, Marc became a naval cadet on a French frigate and during his service visited the West Indies several times. At the same time, there was nothing to warrant a comparison with the condition or the negroes in the West Indies. But also to a lesser extent British interests were hurt in the West Indies and Canada that had depended on that trade. They occur along the whole chain of the Cordilleras and Andes, in the West Indies, New Zealand, Japan, etc. In 1794 Charles was promoted to a Captaincy in the 43rd Foot and posted to the West Indies with his wife and son. Ravi Rampaul picked up a double wicket maiden when he claimed the scalps of Kieswetter and Wright as the West Indies made the perfect start. Nash, nicknamed 'Nasty' also has the honour of being knighted by His Majesty King Leo 1st of Redonda in the West Indies. Calabash Cove Resort and Spa, a resort in Saint Lucia, West Indies, has announced a Valentine's Day offer. The West Indies Regiment was reformed in 1958 as part of the West Indies Federation, after dissolution of the Federation the JDF was established. The Scots also returned to the West Indies and in 1629 took part in the capture of Quebec. As the French empire in North America grew, the French also began to build a smaller but more profitable empire in the West Indies. England was stimulated to create its own colonies, with an emphasis on the West Indies rather than in North America. He made two voyages to the West Indies, in 1570 and 1571, of which little is known. From the outset, slavery was the basis of the British Empire in the West Indies. Domingue into the British Empire and ensuring the slaves in the British West Indies would not be inspired to likewise revolt. At Nelson's request, Hood transferred him to his fleet and Albemarle sailed in company with Hood, bound for the West Indies. Nelson spent the rest of the war cruising in the West Indies, where he captured a number of French and Spanish prizes. Show More Sentences Declining the post, he returned to his regiment, now at Southampton preparing to set sail for the West Indies. Bienville brought the first two African slaves to Louisiana in 1708, transporting them from a French colony in the West Indies. Previous slaves in Louisiana had been transported from French colonies in the West Indies. One passes into the Caribbean Sea, while a second, the Antilles Current, flows north and east of the West Indies. In addition, these countries share the University of the West Indies as a regional entity. The Indian indentured servants that were brought over from India by different European powers, brought this dish to the West Indies. The sport is followed primarily in Australasia, Britain, the Indian subcontinent, southern Africa and the West Indies. West Indies cricket team does not represent one country instead an amalgamation of over 20 countries from the Caribbean. In 1980, Stamford Bridge hosted the first international floodlit cricket match in the UK, between Essex and the West Indies. On the same year the West Indies became the fourth nation to be granted Test status and played their first game against England. After drawing to South Africa, England defeated the West Indies and New Zealand comfortably. Despite England's strength on paper, Australia held the Ashes and the West Indies dominated England in the early part of the decade. During this period England defeated the West Indies home and away, New Zealand, and Bangladesh at home, and South Africa in South Africa. Despite suffering heavy defeats against the West Indies during the 1980s, England continued to do well in the Ashes. The Australians went on to the West Indies and had their chances but ended up losing the series. In 2007 the tournament was hosted by the West Indies and expanded to sixteen teams. The West Indies won a second consecutive World Cup tournament, defeating the hosts England by 92 runs in the final. The West Indies won the first two tournaments, Australia has won five, India has won two, while Pakistan and Sri Lanka have each won once. Six tournaments have so far been played, and only the West Indies, who currently hold the title, has won the tournament on multiple occasions. The third tournament was held in 2010, hosted by the countries making up the West Indies cricket team. Show More Sentences West Indies are the current World T20I holders, beating England in the 2016 final, winning their second title. The 2010 ICC World Twenty20 tournament was held in West Indies in May 2010, where England defeated Australia by 7 wickets. After South Africa in 2007, England, West Indies and Sri Lanka hosted the tournament in 2009, 2010 and 2012 respectively. Their final group stage game was against the West Indies, where they lost by eight wickets. After the World Cup, former West Indies cricketer Phil Simmons took over the role of coach from Birrell. Ireland hosted a quadrangular tournament in Dublin and Belfast in July involving the West Indies, the Netherlands, and Scotland. The West Indies were declared tournament winners because of a bonus point won against the Netherlands. In their first match of the World Cup, Ireland defeated the West Indies by 4 wickets, chasing down 304 runs with 25 balls to spare. Moreover, the French fleet refused to visit the American coast in 1780, having suffered significant damage in actions in the West Indies. There was much action in the West Indies, especially in the Lesser Antilles. As Britain rose in naval power and settled continental North America and some islands of the West Indies, they became the leading slave traders. From the 18th century the city also grew as one of Great Britain's main hubs of transatlantic trade with North America and the West Indies. Today several thousand expatriate workers, principally from Britain, Canada, the West Indies, South Africa and the US, reside in Bermuda. Perhaps most interesting is its closeness to acrolectal English compared to other varieties in the West Indies. Many Bermudians, both black and white, who lack family connections to the West Indies have objected to this emphasis. Bermuda's national cricket team participated in the Cricket World Cup 2007 in the West Indies. Players from Montserrat are eligible to play for the West Indies cricket team. Jim Allen was the first to play for West Indies and he represented the World Series Cricket West Indians. The processing of sea salt was developed as a highly important export product from the West Indies, with the labour done by African slaves. A Methodist revival spread in the British West Indies due to the work of British missionaries. Show More Sentences Scotland failed to qualify for the 2003 World Cup but successfully qualified for the 2007 event in the West Indies. In July, Scotland took part in a quadrangular series in Ireland against the hosts, the Netherlands and the West Indies. They lost their matches against Ireland and the West Indies with the match against the Netherlands being abandoned due to rain. Scotland competed in the qualifiers in the United Arab Emirates, to compete for a place in the 2010 ICC World Twenty20 in the West Indies. After calling at Madeira and the West Indies, the fleet made landfall off the coast of Darien on 2 November. England, France, and the Netherlands had also started colonies in both the West Indies and North America. It then passed legislation to limit colonial trade to the British West Indies and the British Isles. Moreover, American troops were being supplied with ordnance by Dutch merchants via their West Indies colonies. Between 1965 and 1970 Scotland played matches at Hamilton Crescent against New Zealand, the West Indies, MCC and Ireland. Slaveowners in the West Indies and the American colonies found that slaves were more productive if they were clothed. Fewer blacks were brought into London from the West Indies and West Africa. After World War II, the largest influx of Black people occurred, mostly from the British West Indies. Rum was the distilled spirit of choice, as the main ingredient, molasses, was readily available from trade with the West Indies. Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to the West Indies in 1492, sparking a period of European exploration of the Americas. The eggs of two species are eaten in the West Indies because they are believed to have aphrodisiac properties. In the West Indies, the eggs of roseate and sooty terns are believed to be aphrodisiacs, and are disproportionately targeted by egg collectors. She then sailed south, arriving in the West Indies where she raised more havoc before finally cruising west into the Gulf of Mexico. Up until the late 1970s the main Chinmoy study centers were in New York, Florida and the West Indies. The entire area of the Caribbean Sea, the numerous islands of the West Indies, and adjacent coasts, are collectively known as the Caribbean. As consistent trade increased between Spain and Portugal and the East and West Indies, respectively, so did piracy. Show More Sentences In June 1762 British forces from the West Indies landed on the island of Cuba and laid siege to Havana. South Africa has also won the inaugural edition of the 1998 ICC KnockOut Trophy by defeating West Indies in the final. It was put to use in the Atlantic slave trade, making at least two voyages carrying Africans to slavery in the West Indies. In the West Indies in particular, but also in North and South America, slavery was the engine that drove the mercantile empires of Europe. Martin in the French West Indies as well as Sint Maarten in the Netherlands Antilles. West Indies ran into more trouble when they were skittled by a weakened Derbyshire team in less than 41 overs yesterday. CariSal will be the second largest dry calcium chloride plant in the Western Hemisphere and the largest caustic soda plant in the West Indies. Afterwards, they set the mine's dark shell in a park's sandy garden as an ornament together with shells of Strombus gigas from the West Indies. West Indies captain Dwayne Bravo defended his stumper, insisting he genuinely thought the ball hadn't touched the ground. A tough summer of good work against the West Indies and South Africa has been rewarded with 16 weeks in the old dart. Croix, he was the mulatto son of one of the leading white families in the Danish West Indies. Booker-McConnell was a firm with interests in the West Indies. He transported pomelos from Malaysia to the West Indies during the mid-18th century. Status of the volcanically threatened Montserrat Oriole Icterus oberi and other forest birds in Montserrat, West Indies. As trade from the West Indies surpassed that of Ireland and Europe, and as the River Dee continued to silt up, Liverpool began to grow with increasing rapidity. Villeneuve managed to break out a second time in April, and this time succeeded in passing through the Strait of Gibraltar and into the Atlantic, bound for the West Indies. Raw cotton, imported through the port of Liverpool from the West Indies and southern states of America, and coal from Worsley were carried on the canal. But England greatly feared the effects of any such move on its own West Indies, where Americans had already aroused alarm over a possible threat to incite slave insurrections. The West Indies cricket team usually includes several Barbadian players. Cooke was watching at the nonstrikers end as Sammy prolonged the final over with the West Indies allrounder needing just one run from three balls to win. Show More Sentences The Federation dissolved after the Jamaican Federation of the West Indies membership referendum of 1961, and the resulting withdrawal of the Province of Jamaica. Earlier, West Indies needed another late cameo of lusty blows to unshackle a stranglehold placed on them by Pakistan's bowlers, of whom Junaid Khan was the best. The main strategic idea involved the French Navy escaping from the British blockades of Toulon and Brest and threatening to attack the West Indies. The islands of the West Indies delineate a submerged former land bridge, which had connected North and South America via what are now Florida and Venezuela. Tendulkar is not the first cricketer to be conferred the Order of Australia, as in 2009, West Indies legend Brian Lara had also been made an honorary member. The merger is essentially complete in England, Wales, the West Indies, South Africa, Australia, and in the speech of young speakers in New Zealand. The country was one of the venues of 2007 Cricket World Cup and the West Indies cricket team is one of 10 ICC full member teams that participate in international Test cricket. Many of those sold to landowners in New England eventually prospered, but many of those sold to landowners in the West Indies were worked to death. Croix in the Danish West Indies in 1883, Harrison permanently settled in New York in 1900, where he attended high school at night and worked a variety of unskilled day jobs. His study of the intimate connection between community and language in the Danish West Indies also illuminates the history of Afro-Caribbean vernaculars more generally. A total of 118 for nine was only going to be defendable if Bangladesh's spinners, who have tortured West Indies throughout the tour, found their groove quickly. This pidgin was learned by slaves in slave depots, who later on took it to the West Indies and formed one component of the emerging English creoles. She meets up with dangerous creatures from sharks to crocodiles as she globetrots the world, stopping off in Australia, Africa and the West Indies. The 1492 discovery of the West Indies by Christopher Columbus rendered desirable a delimitation of the Spanish and Portuguese spheres of exploration. The ship then sailed on the second leg of its voyage, from Africa to the West Indies, and in May 1701 landed 191 Africans for sale in Port Royal, Jamaica. He also got to know a slave from the Danish colony in the West Indies. Also ceded to the British were Grenada and Saint Lucia in the West Indies. Mordaunt justified his decision by saying that the navy was needed to cover an incoming French fleet from the West Indies rather than sitting indefinitely off Rochefort. This victory left the British in almost total command of the seas, compounded by the effective use of naval forces in the West Indies, Canada and India. He sent forces to attack French settlements in West Africa and the West Indies, operations which were tactically successful and brought financial benefits. Show More Sentences Similarly, over half of the black people evacuated in 1782 from Charleston by the British to the West Indies and Florida were slaves owned by white Loyalists. In November 2001, the vessel returned home from a successful deployment in the West Indies after carrying out counter-drugs operations and disaster relief guardship duties. Fisher's brother Philip was serving on the training ship Atalanta, which disappeared somewhere between the West Indies and England, believed lost in a storm. In the meantime, a small squadron from the West Indies joined Conflans in Brest and, when an easterly wind came on the 14th, Conflans slipped out. They suffered severe defeats in Canada, the West Indies, Europe and India. A further 50,000 were sent into indentured servitude in the West Indies. The Castle Avenue hosted its first one day international match on May 21, 1999 as part of the 1999 Cricket World Cup when Bangladesh played against the West Indies. The resident British black population, primarily male, was no longer growing from the trickle of slaves and servants from the West Indies and America. In 1960, representatives from Australia, England, New Zealand, South Africa and the West Indies met to discuss standardising the rules of the sport. As shipping between Seville and the West Indies grew, knowledge of the Caribbean islands, Central America and the northern coast of South America grew. The shortage of gunpowder had led Congress to authorize an expedition against the Bahamas Colony in the West Indies, in order to secure ordnance there. Next he afflicted Garnswllt's Greg Thomas with serial injuries and, perhaps worse, selection for the traumatic West Indies tour of 1985-86 under featherbrain David Gower. Farmers also expanded their production of flax seed and corn since flax was a high demand in the Irish linen industry and a demand for corn existed in the West Indies. They then travelled to the West Indies for their second World Cup. The name James Bond came from that of the American ornithologist James Bond, a Caribbean bird expert and author of the definitive field guide Birds of the West Indies. The first large movements began in the 17th century, largely as a result of the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, which saw many Irish sent to the West Indies. They have emphasised Bermuda's cultural connections with the West Indies. Since the 20th century, there has been considerable immigration to Bermuda from the West Indies, as well as continued immigration from Portuguese Atlantic islands. Its merchant fleet and a web of expatriate Bermudian merchants dominated trade through a number of American Atlantic Seaboard ports and the West Indies. Dutch possessions in the West Indies and South America were captured by Britain but later recaptured by France and restored to the Dutch Republic. Show More Sentences During the second period, the successive interventions of France, Spain, and the Netherlands extended the naval war until it ranged from the West Indies to the Bay of Bengal. Disputes, however, broke out over trade with the West Indies. Ireland were knocked out of the 2010 ICC World Twenty20, hosted by South Africa in April and May, after being beaten by the West Indies and a washed out match against England. Ireland and the West Indies both won their games against Scotland and the Netherlands with their direct encounter ending in no result due to rain. These include maritime commerce, settlement of the continent and of the West Indies, and the projection of naval power via the colony's privateers, among other areas. The hundredth Lord's Test match was in 2000, England v West Indies. The West Indies won the tournament by defeating Sri Lanka in the final, winning its first international tournament since the 2004 Champions Trophy. The commentating team for the West Indies Tests next summer will include Barbadian lawyer Donna Symmonds and Tony Cozier, the doyen of West Indian cricket observers. Representatives from England, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the West Indies were part of a 1960 meeting in Sri Lanka that standardised the rules for the game. After Woodes Rogers' 1718 landing at New Providence and his ending of the pirate republic, however, piracy in the West Indies fell into terminal decline. L AXMAN highlighted several other qualities of Tendulkar, who has announced that the two Tests against the West Indies next month would be his last. The West Indies cricket team continues to represent many of those nations. The 24-year-old may lack the height of the usual West Indies pacers, but can bowl consistently at around 140 kmph with the help of a lovely rhythm. Himley have recruited former West Indies Under-19 and Windward Islands all-rounder Sergio Fedee as their overseas player, who makes his debut at Berkswell. Vettori paid the price for a wicketless outing in the final one-day international against the West Indies on Tuesday, slipping from first place to second. England wrapped up a five-wicket victory in the first Test as a stand of 132 between Alastair Cook and Ian Bell saw off an early West Indies charge. Sharp never married, but in about 1812 he adopted an infant, Maria Kinnaird, who had been orphaned by a catastrophic volcano eruption in the West Indies. Examples from Classical Literature It was otherwise in the British West Indies, where the whites were overshadowed by a more than sixfold population. Beautiful pink pearls are found in the gasteropod Strombus gigas, the conch-shell of the West Indies. Dampier thought their flesh not so good as the green turtle of the West Indies. In the West Indies maize, Guinea corn, sugar-corn tops, and sometimes molasses are given. In 1595 he and Hawkyns set out for the West Indies on what proved to be their last expedition. Indeed, the barbadian population, as a mass, strikes one as the darkest in the West Indies. In these particulars it discovers an affinity to the tamarind of the West Indies. The occurrence of one aberrant group in the West Indies is, however, noteworthy. His leisure was devoted to scientific study, especially the ornithology, ichthyology, and anthropology of the West Indies. Our lands, like those of the British West Indies, would become almost valueless for the want of laborers to cultivate them. The mammee is cultivated in the West Indies and in some warm regions of America. A species of the genus jatropha janipha, well known to seamen as the cassava bread of the West Indies. It is extensively employed as a clarifier in the sugar plantations of the West Indies, and elsewhere. A fixed oil is obtained from the seeds by expression, which has long been employed as an aperient in the West Indies. I want to show you a splendid specimen of a saw, taken from a sawfish down in the West Indies, and sent to me. The Californian sea-elephant and the sea-dog of the West Indies have shared a like fate. For these second-generation farms, wheat and corn for export to England and the West Indies became the principal income crops. In the east also there are evidences of the influence of Arawakan culture from the West Indies. In 1742 he parted from her to go on a religious visit to Tortola, in the West Indies. The cocoa-nut tree is supposed to have been brought from the Maldives to the West Indies. Show More Sentences The president, Wingfield, attempted to embezzle the public stores, and escape to the West Indies. How has the cultivation of the sugar-beet affected the cane-sugar industry in the British West Indies? I forget now where they chiefly went, but I think there were some among them that made voyages both to the East and West Indies. A small silver coin of the West Indies, six of which make a bitt. Immediate emancipation worked admirably in the British West Indies. Besides 5.7 per cent of the 365 came from the British West Indies. Mr Sparkler considered it a parallel case to that of some of our fellows in the West Indies with Yellow Jack. I went down to Ramsgate for a week with a friend last September, just after my return from the West Indies. As for the great burnings by lightnings, which are often in the West Indies, they are but narrow. There being no Indians in the West Indies now, there were no encomiendas. Edward Freely, the orphan, scion of a great but reduced family, with an eccentric uncle in the West Indies. She keeps a long, busy story moving along briskly as it careens through Alta California, Spain, New Orleans, and the West Indies. Brownlow had sold off his goods, and gone to the West Indies, six weeks before. Then they steamed up the coast to Pernambuco, and on to the West Indies. The tobacco of commerce was introduced from the West Indies. A short time afterwards, the ship sailed for the West Indies. Why was Columbus surprised when he saw the natives in the West Indies? This was five years after Columbus discovered the West Indies. Barbados, like all the West Indies, was one of the grimmest killing fields. One of the most important trees in the West Indies is the plantain tree. Show More Sentences In the West Indies he would certainly have been set down as a quadroon. I had seen many regions, and had shed much blood in different lands, before duty called me to the islands of the West Indies. His success came too late to benefit the natives of the West Indies. Find more words! 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