The Scarlet Pimpernel vocabulary

There now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by coral reefs—commerce surrounds it with her surf. Right and left, the streets take you waterward.

Herman Melville. Moby Dick

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I saw that under the mask of these half humorous innuendoes, this old seaman, as an insulated Quakerish Nantucketer, was full of his insular prejudices, and rather distrustful of all aliens, unless they hailed from Cape Cod or the Vineyard.

Herman Melville. Moby Dick

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Mr. Jellyband was indeed a typical rural John Bull of those days— the days when our prejudiced insularity was at its height, when to an Englishman, be he lord, yeoman, or peasant, the whole of the continent of Europe was a den of immorality and the rest of the world an unexploited land of savages and cannibals.

Baroness Emmuska Orczy. The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) 

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he had a fine pride in himself, was even a trifle egotistical, as country gentlemen sometimes become because of their insular situation.

Jack London. The Call of the Wild (1903)