55 examples of nubian in sentences

" So far as the Franco-Prussian war has gone, the blackest page of its history appears to be the employment of the Turcos, who are nearly as black as average Nubian "niggers."

I. Interior of a Moorish House City of Tangier Port of Mogador Christian Burial Place Moorish Cemetery Nubian Cavalry of Ancient Africa Wadnoun VOL.

It was a March morning upon the eastern fringe of the Nubian desert.

As northward, from its Nubian springs, The Nile, forever new and old, Among the living and the dead, Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled; So, starting from its fountain-head Under the lotus-leaves of Isis, From the dead demigods of eld, Through long, unbroken lines of kings

We had six horses to our carriage, and a swarthy Nubian, with a capital seat on horseback, rode by us all the way, occasionally reminding our horses that it was intended they should go at a gallop.

[Footnote 031: We would not wish to be understood, that slavery was unknown in Africa before the piratical expeditions of the Portuguese, as it appears from the Nubian's Geography, that both the slavery and commerce had been established among the natives with one another.

This appears from the Nubian's Geography, the writings of Leo, the Moor, and all the subsequent histories, which those, who have visited the African continent, have written from their own inspection.

They appear likewise to have been known in the middle ages to the Arabs of Morocco; as the Nubian geographer mentions two islands, under the names of Mastahan and Lacos, as among the six fortunate islands described by Ptolemy; these probably were Lancerota and Fuertaventura, the latter of which may be seen in clear weather from the nearest coast of Africa.

But the phenomena were by no means on so grand a scale as I had seen in the Nubian Desert.

"What means this?" inquired Ismael angrily; "am not I Pasha?""It is but forage for your highness's horses," replied the Nubian; "for, were your troops once arrived, the people would fear to approach the camp."

A Nubian clothed in castor-oil, and descending from the heavens by a slippery seat upon a rainbow, might as well attempt to describe the beauties of our sphere as the caged traveller at the tail of the boiling kettle attempt to convey much idea of the scenery he passes through.

They lived at Nubian [HW: New Bern], North Carolina.

The antientest accounts of the Negroes is from the Nubian Geography, and the writings of Leo the African.

"YOUR IMPERIAL MAJESTY, I REGRET THAT, OWING TO THE SUDDEN INDISPOSITION OF BIBULUS TERTIUS, HIS COMBAT WITH THE TWO NUBIAN FOREST-BRED LIONS IS UNAVOIDABLY POSTPONED.

The fair Circassians shrieking with their streaming hair and dripping finery, the Nubian eunuchs rushing to their aid, plunging into the water from the balustrade, or dashing down the marble steps,all this forms an agreeable relaxation after the labours of the Divan.

The guard of Nubian eunuchs with their black glossy countenances, clothed in scarlet and gold, waving their glittering Damascus sabres, and gently bounding on their snow-white steeds, is, perhaps, the most picturesque corps in the world.

I creep over the vast features of Rameses, on the face of his rock-hewn Nubian temple; I scale the huge mountain-crystal that calls itself the Pyramid of Cheops.

The little Nubian boys who fan Her cheeks and tresses clear, Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful voices Seem afar to hear.

Among these were "A Court in Damascus," "Nubian Dancing Girls," and a "Harem in Constantinople."

Two of the ladies of the party, not having completed their purchases at the bazaars, went out upon a shopping excursion, and passing near the Nubian slave-market, were induced to enter.

Among the Nubians, it is universal to the New Empire and customary even later in unmixed Nubian communities.

BATN-EL-HAJAR, a stony tract in the Nubian Desert, near the third cataract of the Nile.

A Nubian girl, more sweet than Khoorja musk, Came to the water-tank to fill her urn, And with the urn she bore my heart away!

The captain, a Nubian, on a salary of eighty-five cents a day, selects a suitable spot on the bank where the boat may remain all night.

Fragrant with Champak scents the warm wind sighs Heavily, faintly, languorously fanned By drowsy peacock-plumesto keep the flies From your full nose and eyes Waved from behind you, where on either hand Two silent slaves of Nubian polish stand, Whose patent-leather visages reflect The convex day, with mirror-like effect.

55 examples of  nubian  in sentences