"Eurasian" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... my doing a favor," he suggested, glancing sternly at a dark-eyed Eurasian girl who seemed to be trying to ...
— Peter the Brazen - A Mystery Story of Modern China • George F. Worts
... be austere, not to say morose. Few divined in him the secretly tenacious love of nature that had been fostered by years spent in the forests and jungles of the eastern world. It was odd for an Englishman, due possibly to that Eurasian ancestor. Surreptitiously, as though half ashamed of it, he had kept alive a sense of beauty that hardly belonged to his type, and was unusual for its vitality. Trees, in particular, nourished it. He, also, understood trees, felt a subtle sense of communion with them, born perhaps ...
— The Man Whom the Trees Loved • Algernon Blackwood
... Anglo-Indian, whose blood has distilled through Haileybury for three generations, and whose cousins to the fourth degree are Collectors and Indian Army Colonels, the Eurasian, however fair he may be, is a bete noir. Mrs. Ellenborough Higgins is always setting or pointing at ...
— Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series • George Robert Aberigh-Mackay
... species of the apple-tree multiply the interest and hold the attention in many countries. They make the apple-tree group one of the most widespread and adaptable of temperate-region trees. It will be seen that there are three families of them,—the Eurasian family, from which come the pomological apples; the North American family, which has yielded little cultivated material; the East-Asian family, abundant in highly ornamental kinds. There are no apple-trees ...
— The Apple-Tree - The Open Country Books—No. 1 • L. H. Bailey
... significant that, whereas Labertouche himself was not seen either to enter or to leave the building at any time that day, an Attit mendicant did enter from Dhurrumtollah Street shortly after Frank had gone to lunch—and disappeared forthwith; while, in the dusk of evening, a slim Eurasian boy with a clerkly air left by the stairs to the alley. I say a boy, but he may have been thirty; he was carefully attired in clothing of the mode affected by the Anglo-Indian, but wore shoes that were almost heelless. His height may have been five-feet seven inches, but ...
— The Bronze Bell • Louis Joseph Vance
... development of ice in the eastern part of the continent, the ice streams of the Himalayan Mountains, some of which are among the greatest of our upland glaciers, appear to have undergone but a moderate extension. Many other of the Eurasian highlands were probably ice-bound during the last Glacial period, but our knowledge concerning these local fields ...
— Outlines of the Earth's History - A Popular Study in Physiography • Nathaniel Southgate Shaler |
