"Slav" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... been proposed, as color, hair, cranial measurements and language. And manifestly, in each of these respects, human beings differ widely. They vary in color, for instance, from the marble-like pallor of the Scandinavian to the rich, dark brown of the Zulu, passing by the creamy Slav, the yellow Chinese, the light brown Sicilian and the brown Egyptian. Men vary, too, in the texture of hair from the obstinately straight hair of the Chinese to the obstinately tufted and frizzled hair of the Bushman. In measurement of heads, again, men vary; from the broad-headed Tartar to the ...
— The Conservation of Races • W.E. Burghardt Du Bois
... they have long to wait before the tall Slav was announced. Barney lost no time in getting down to business. He asked no questions. What Von der Tann had told him, what he had seen with his own eyes since he had entered Lutha, and what he had overheard in the inn at Burgova was sufficient evidence that the fate ...
— The Mad King • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... bad boy," she cried. "See what you's done. Back we goes to slav'ry—to Aunt Jane and Miss Wamsay. You is a ...
— A Little Mother to the Others • L. T. Meade
... but I knew he was not a whit less dangerous because the veneer of suave mockery masked the savagery of the Slav. ...
— The Pirate of Panama - A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure • William MacLeod Raine |
