"African" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... when this latter suggestion came up, that our old servant might not readily take to it. With twenty years of his life spent as major domo and general valet in my father's household, a sudden transformation into trained nurse for a dusky African must, peradventure, have been ...
— Wings of the Wind • Credo Harris
... one would have said that it was all over except buying the licence, had it not been for the fact that his very admiration served to keep Eustace from pouring out his heart. It seemed incredible to him that the queen of her sex, a girl who had chatted in terms of equality with African head-hunters and who swatted alligators as though they were flies, could ever lower herself to care for a man who looked like the "after-taking" ...
— The Girl on the Boat • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
... were formerly in use among canal boatmen, miners, and agricultural labourers, in certain districts. They are now chiefly made for the African market. The process of making them and studs is ...
— Rides on Railways • Samuel Sidney
... sorcerer, called by the writer of this story, the African magician; he was a native of Africa, and had been but two days ...
— The Arabian Nights Entertainments Complete • Anonymous
... would be interesting to know how far this N.W. diurnal tide extends; also the rate at which it gathers moisture in its progress over the damp regions of the Sunderbunds. Its excessive dryness in N.W. India approaches that of the African and Australian deserts; and I shall give an abstract of my own observations, both in the vallies of the Soane and Ganges, and on the elevated plateaus of Behar and ...
— Himalayan Journals (Complete) • J. D. Hooker
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