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Fuegian   Listen
noun
Fuegian  n.  A native of Terra del Fuego.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Fuegian" Quotes from Famous Books



... no less than 191 pieces of stone-implements and four fragments of pottery.(6) The very size and extension of the shell heaps prove that for generations and generations the coasts of Denmark were inhabited by hundreds of small tribes which certainly lived as peacefully together as the Fuegian tribes, which also accumulate like shellheaps, are living ...
— Mutual Aid • P. Kropotkin

... as an innocent brute desires: his desire is always love or lust. We have as little right to say that the wisdom of the sage is nothing but the purblind savagery of a Terra del Fuegian, as we have to assert that love is nothing but a sexual impulse. That impulse rather, when its potency is set free, will show itself, at first confusedly, but with more and more clearness as it expands, to be the yearning of soul for soul. It puts us "in training for a love which knows not ...
— Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher • Henry Jones



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