1 His hair was jet black, and his black mustache was small and closely clipped, almost foreign looking compared with the dashing, swooping mustaches of the cavalrymen near by.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER IX 2 There was a gentleness foreign to him in both hand and voice.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XLV 3 But the forceful words she uttered were foreign to Melanie who seldom voiced an opinion at all and never an unkind word.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER LV 4 Trouble enough with these foreign farmers; if you don't watch these Swedes they turn socialist or populist or some fool thing on you in a minute.
5 They saw the Grand Canyon, the adobe walls of Sante Fe and, in a drive from El Paso into Mexico, their first foreign land.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XXXIV 6 In thoroughfares nigh the docks, any considerable seaport will frequently offer to view the queerest looking nondescripts from foreign parts.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 6. The Street. 7 But like Czar Peter content to toil in the shipyards of foreign cities, Queequeg disdained no seeming ignominy, if thereby he might happily gain the power of enlightening his untutored countrymen.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 12. Biographical. 8 But all this might remain inadequately estimated, were not something said here of the peculiar usages of whaling-vessels when meeting each other in foreign seas, and especially on a common cruising-ground.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 53. The Gam. 9 While other hulls are loaded down with alien stuff, to be transferred to foreign wharves; the world-wandering whale-ship carries no cargo but herself and crew, their weapons and their wants.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada. 10 The delicate side-fins, and the palms of his flukes, still freshly retained the plaited crumpled appearance of a baby's ears newly arrived from foreign parts.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada. 11 I pricked up my ears, for it was positively the first time I had ever heard a foreign tongue.
My Antonia By Willa CatherGet Context In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I 12 He led us to a hitching-bar where two farm-wagons were tied, and I saw the foreign family crowding into one of them.
My Antonia By Willa CatherGet Context In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I 13 One result of this family solidarity was that the foreign farmers in our county were the first to become prosperous.
My Antonia By Willa CatherGet Context In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IX 14 Jelinek kept rye bread on hand and smoked fish and strong imported cheeses to please the foreign palate.
My Antonia By Willa CatherGet Context In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XII 15 Even after she learned to speak English readily, there was always something impulsive and foreign in her speech.
My Antonia By Willa CatherGet Context In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV