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"Tibetan" Quotes from Famous Books

... degree of fatness. An oil lamp flickered before a joss near by, and the place reeked with the odor of starch, sweat, tobacco, rice whisky and the incense that rose ceilingward in thin, shaking columns from two bowls of Tibetan soapstone. An obese Chinaman with a walnutlike countenance in which cunning and melancholy were equally commingled was speaking monotonously through long, rat-tailed mustaches, while the others listened with impassive ...

— Tutt and Mr. Tutt • Arthur Train

... The Tibetan dorje, like its Greek original, is obviously a conventionalized flower, the leaf-design about the base of the ...

— The Evolution of the Dragon • G. Elliot Smith

... thought, her hands clasped behind her head, the folds of her dull-blue tea-gown trailing on the carpet. A cushion of darker blue threw into stronger relief the brighter tints of her hair; and at her throat three rough lumps of Tibetan turquoise—recently sent by Lenox—hung on a fine gold chain. His last letter, full of the discovery of his Pass, lay open on her knee,—read and re-read till its contents were stamped upon her brain; and it seemed to her high time that a fresh one came to take its place. But ...

— The Great Amulet • Maud Diver

Words linked to "Tibetan" : Asiatic, Sino-Tibetan language, Tibet, Asian, Tibetan terrier, Sino-Tibetan, Tibetan mastiff, Himalayish