Hardly a vestige is to be seen among them of the crisped and woolly-haired dark-brown. From Wordnik.com. [Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before] Reference
Matthew Selby, middle-aged, genial, woolly-haired, looked like everyone's image of an upright, respectable father figure. From Wordnik.com. [No Man's Mistress]
As for myself, I should think this probable, not merely because they are dark and woolly-haired, but because the inhabitants of Colchis, Egypt, and. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
Just as he's about to seal the deal emotionally, he spies a familiar figure heading his way: Graydon Carter, the woolly-haired gatekeeper of Vanity Fair. From Wordnik.com. [20 years later, greed's still good for Douglas in 'Wall Street' sequel] Reference
Haeckel in History of Creation, printed in America in 1876, wrote, the "woolly-haired" Negros were "incapable of a true inner culture and of a higher mental development.". From Wordnik.com. [THE PHILOSOPHY OF JACK LONDON] Reference
As the woolly-haired Papuas are generally prized by the natives, constant visits are made to New Guinea and the easternmost islands, where they are procured, and afterward sold at high prices among any Malay community. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
She was manned by a crew of semi-nude, woolly-haired. From Wordnik.com. [Edward Barry South Sea Pearler] Reference
There remain to be noticed the black woolly-haired races of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2] Reference
The woolly-haired races are subdivided into those with tuft-like hair. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
The woolly-haired African race includes the negroes and the very primitive bushmen. From Wordnik.com. [The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told] Reference
It has been thought that the woolly-haired chieftain was really courting an alliance with the. From Wordnik.com. [The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest] Reference
Instead of finding black and woolly-haired natives, he found men of cinnamon hue, like those in. From Wordnik.com. [The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest] Reference
They are dark-skinned and woolly-haired and speak a language which is akin to the Polynesian language. From Wordnik.com. [The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia] Reference
According to his theory mankind is divided, according to the shape of the head, into woolly-haired and sleek-haired. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
Groups of woolly-haired Africans, as black as the basalt tablets in the museum, were seated on the floor of the white marble court. From Wordnik.com. [There was a King in Egypt] Reference
We have seen native Africans who were jet black, woolly-haired, and yet possessing fine teeth, beautiful features, tall, graceful, and athletic. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference
Our prehistoric ancestors hunted the mammoth, the woolly-haired rhinoceros, and Irish elk; the ancient Britons had the wild ox, the deer, and the wolf. From Wordnik.com. [The Pleasures of Life] Reference
And I am but one man from Anuda, and there are four hundred others from many islands -- black-skinned, man-eating, woolly-haired pigs from the Solomon and New Hebrides, and fierce fellows like these. From Wordnik.com. [The Call Of The South 1908] Reference
She had but this subject, of course, to think about; and Miss Saltire was too cold for a confidante, and she couldn't bring her mind to tell Miss Swartz, the woolly-haired young heiress from St. Kitt's. From Wordnik.com. [Vanity Fair] Reference
It is almost impossible to determine the antiquity of some of them, in which the idols are exact representations of woolly-haired Negroes, although the inhabitants of those countries to-day have straight hair. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference
"Ebony, woolly-haired negroes in clean white breech-cloths, piled up the gathered fruit in tall baskets woven of reeds and lined with leaves. From Wordnik.com. [When Winter Comes to Main Street] Reference
If we start with what might be called "zoological" races or strains differing, for instance, in their hair (woolly-haired Africans, straight-haired. From Wordnik.com. [The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told] Reference
You woolly-haired hordes!. From Wordnik.com. [Poems By Walt Whitman] Reference
That -- that woolly-haired freak? ". From Wordnik.com. [Shorty McCabe] Reference
Grass-Eaters -- bunt-headed, woolly-haired eaters of grass! ". From Wordnik.com. [The Trail Book] Reference
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