Word: caucasian
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sacrilegious son of Belial, who suffered from bronchitis, having exhausted his finances, in order to make good the deficit, resolved to ally himself to a comely, lenient and docile young lady of the Malay or Caucasian race. He accordingly purchased a calliope and a coral necklace of a chameleon hue, and securing a suite of rooms at a principal hotel, he engaged the head waiter as his conjutor. He then dispatched a letter of the most unexceptional caligraphy extant, inviting her to a matinee. She revolted at the idea, refused to consider herself sacrificable to his desires, and sent...
...artist is given a choice even of races. There is the Caucasian in multitudinous variety, the African at his chosen post-slavic occupation, and, in smaller numbers, the Mongolian, and besides many of the intermediate hybrid types...