 ... reminded me of the Nineveh sculptures, and of faces seen in St. Sebastian. Her hair was as black as night, and her clear dark eyes glittered through the peat smoke. Her complexion was dark, and her features so unlike those who sat about her, that...  Popular Tales of the West Highlands - Page 1301862Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | John Francis Campbell - 1862 - 448 pages
...glittered through the peat smoke. Her complexion was dark, and her features so unlike those who sat about her, that I asked if she were a native of the island,...learned that she was a Highland girl. Old men and young lads, newly returned from the eastern fishing, sat about on benches fixed to the wall, and smoked and... | |
 | Charles Isaac Elton - 1882 - 514 pages
...glittered through the peat-smoke. Her complexion was dark, and her features so unlike those who sat about her, that I asked if she were a native of the island, and learned that she was a Highland girl." 1 Prof. Rolleston, in Brit. Barrows, 679. " As regards the earlier of the two pre-historic races, we... | |
 | Charles Isaac Elton - 1882 - 512 pages
...glittered through the peat-smoke. Her complexion was dark, and her features so unlike those who sat about her, that I asked if she were a native of the island, and learned that she was a Highland girl." 1 Prof. Rolleston, in Brit. Barrows, 679. " As regards the earlier of the two pre-historic races, we... | |
 | Charles Isaac Elton - 1882 - 506 pages
...glittered through the peat-smoke. Her complexion was dark, and her features so unlike those who sat about her, that I asked if she were a native of the island, and learned that she was a Highland girl." 1 Prof. Rolleston, in Brit. Barrows, 679. " As regards the earlier of the two pre-historic races, we... | |
 | Jean Roemer - 1888 - 714 pages
...glittered through the peatsmoke. Her complexion was dark, and her features so unlike those who sat about her, that I asked if she were a native of the island, and learned that she was a Highland girl." We need not describe in detail the relics of the Palaeolithic tribes who ranged'the country under an... | |
 | Edward Clodd - 1895 - 202 pages
...glittered through the peat-smoke. Her complexion was dark, and her features so unlike those who sat about her, that I asked if she were a native of the island, and learned that she was a Highland girl." The persistence of a race of which specimens meet us everywhere, to which, in high probability, some... | |
 | Thomas Thomson - 1896 - 358 pages
...glittered through the peat smoke. Her complexion was dark, and her features so unlike those who sat about her, that I asked If she were a native of the Island, and learned that she was a Highland girl." A committee of the British Association pronounced in 1883 that the short dark type— otherwise called... | |
 | Bertram Coghill Alan Windle, Sir Bertram Coghill Alan Windle - 1897 - 272 pages
...glittered through the peat-smoke. Her complexion was dark and her features so unlike those who sat about her that I asked if she were a native of the island and learned that she was a Highland girl." Again, in many parts of England and Wales the people are short and swarthy, with black hair and eyes,... | |
 | William Copeland Borlase - 1897 - 540 pages
...glittered through the peat smoke. Her complexion was dark, and her features so unlike those who sat about her that I asked if she were a native of the island, and learned that she was a Highland girl," — that is, from the coast immediately opposite. I have myself seen faces in the Gweedore district... | |
 | John Semple Smart - 1905 - 256 pages
...glittered through the peat smoke. Her complexion was dark, and her features so unlike those who sat about her, that I asked if she were a native of the island,...learned that she was a Highland girl. Old men and young lads, newly returned from the eastern fishing, sat about on benches fixed to the wall, and smoked and... | |
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