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- adjective Obsolete spelling of
Kalmyk . - noun Obsolete spelling of
Kalmyk . - proper noun Obsolete spelling of
Kalmyk .
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Examples
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Side and front views of the round and orthognathous skull of a Calmuck, after Von Baer.
Essays 2007
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Southern Asia to Hindostan, would give us a sort of equator, around which round-headed, oval-headed, and oblong-headed, prognathous and orthognathous, fair and dark races — but none possessing the excessively marked characters of Calmuck or Negro — group themselves.
Essays 2007
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The profile of the face of the Calmuck is almost vertical, the facial bones being thrown downwards and under the forepart of the skull.
Essays 2007
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The Calmuck envoy retired cringing, and left an odor of musk and candle-grease behind him.
Burlesques 2006
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She began to bet upon him, and the young Calmuck lost too.
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The Calmuck envoy retired cringing, and left an odor of musk and candle-grease behind him.
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A writer of the time has said that Orloff would hasten with equal readiness from the arms of Catharine to the embraces of any flat-nosed Finn or filthy Calmuck or to the lowest creature whom he might encounter in the streets.
Famous Affinities of History — Complete Lyndon Orr
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But it sometimes happens that the woman does not wish to marry the person by whom she is pursued, in which case she will not suffer him to overtake her; and we were assured that no instance occurs of a Calmuck girl being caught, unless she has a partiality for her pursuer.
A Peep into Toorkisthhan Rollo Gillespie Burslem
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The former, M. Verdier proves, by a long train of reasoning, to be descended from a Calmuck, who, in the year 622, (the year of M.homet's flight from M.cca) married a Samoyede woman, and, with
Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3) James Athearn Jones
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A writer of the time has said that Orloff would hasten with equal readiness from the arms of Catharine to the embraces of any flat-nosed Finn or filthy Calmuck or to the lowest creature whom he might encounter in the streets.
Famous Affinities of History — Volume 2 Lyndon Orr
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