xanthous

• 1837, Volume II., page 344) a vague reference to Natural Selection, of which the last sentence is enclosed in pencil in inverted commas, as though Mr. Darwin had intended to quote it: "In other parts of Africa the xanthous variety [of man] often appears, but does not multiply. —  More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1
• _Il Trovatore_; and from such fluffy, xanthous whiskers as Lohengrins wear; and from sentimental old maids who sink into senility lamenting that Brahms never wrote an opera; and from programme music, with or without notes; and from Swiss bell-ringers, Vincent D'Indy, the Paris —  A Book of Burlesques
• To the different characters of human complexion, Dr Prichard gives three distinctive terms -- the _melanous_ or brunette; the _xanthous_ or blonde; and the _leucous_ or albino; the _melanous_ predominating in the southern countries, the _xanthous_ in the northern. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844
• _xanthous_ complexion prevails -- the inhabitants of Australia and the —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844
• The change from the _xanthous_ to the _melanous_ complexion, is a circumstance of constant occurrence; there are few children born, whose complexion does not darken as they grow up, in many cases undergoing a total change: the passage from dark to fair is rare, but it constantly occurs that _xanthous_, or even _leucous_ children, are born of —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844

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