They are a fine, large race, with more bone and muscle than is generally found among Orientals ; browner than the Osmanlee, but lighter, fairer than the Arab ; brown hair is not by any means uncommon. The women, when young, are handsome, often fair with... The Ansayrii, (or Assassins,): With Travels in the Further East, in 1850-51 ... - Page 345by Frederick Walpole - 1851Full view - About this book
| Frederick Walpole - 1851 - 742 pages
...race, with more bone and muscle than is generally found among Orientals ; browner than tho Osmanloe, but lighter, fairer than the Arab ; brown hair is...even four years of age, naturally tends to weaken tho mother, who has thus, perhaps, on very insufficient diet, to support three from her breast. In... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1851 - 680 pages
...by any means uncommon. The women, when young, are handsome, often fair with light hair and jetblack eyes ; or the rarer beauty of fair eyes and coal-black...soon wear them out. The traveller will see these poor people staggering along under a load of wood a horse would hardly carry, and the child being suckled... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1851 - 682 pages
...by any means uncommon. The women, when young, are handsome, often fair with light hair and jetblack eyes ; or the rarer beauty of fair eyes and coal-black...eyebrows ; but exposure to the sun, and the labours they perforn), soon wear them out. The traveller will see these poor people staggering along under a load... | |
| Frederick Walpole (hon.) - 1851 - 526 pages
...often fair with light hair and jet black eyes ; or the rarer beauty of fair eyes and coal-black bailor eye-brows ; but exposure to the sun, and the labours...soon wear them out. The traveller will see these poor people staggering along under a load of wood a horse would hardly carry, and the child being suckled... | |
| 1852 - 454 pages
...women, when young, are handsome, often fair, with light hair and jet black eyes ; or the rarer beanty of fair eyes and coal-black hair or eyebrows ; but...weaken the mother, who has thus, perhaps, on very insufficicnt dict, to support three from her breast. We have said that Mr. Walpole vainly boasts that... | |
| Samuel Lyde - 1860 - 350 pages
...by any means uncommon. The women, when young, are handsome, often fair, with light hair and jetblack eyes; or the rarer beauty of fair eyes and coalblack hair or eyebrows." * Their arms consist of a long gun, with flint lock and * Ansayrii, or Assassins, vol. iii. p. 345.... | |
| Richard Robert Madden - 1862 - 528 pages
...large race, with more bone and muscle than is generally found in orientals ; browner than the Osmauli, but lighter, fairer than the Arab ; brown hair is...and the labours they perform, soon wear them out. " In dress the Ansayrii are Turks. According to the expression of the country they dress thus, as they... | |
| Henry Harris Jessup - 1873 - 384 pages
...of the Nusairiyeh women, "when young, they are handsome, often fair, with light hair and jet-black eyes ; or the rarer beauty of fair eyes and coal-black hair or eyebrows." When a fight takes place between the tribes, the women, like the women of the Druzes, enter into the... | |
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