Frieslander

Frieslander, broad – backed and flea – bitten, and with half a hundred of wool hanging to each of his fetlocks.

Don Quixote 2002

Mimigardeford (afterwards Münster), where St. Liudger, a Frieslander, laboured successfully; and others at Paderborn, Minden, and Verden.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

A few days later the new-born Frieslander is taken to church, all the girls from twelve years old accompanying the child and carrying it each in turn.

A Wanderer in Holland 1903

A young Frieslander, studying at Oxford in 1499, writes to a fellow-countryman there: 'Your verses have shown me what I never could have believed, that German talents are no whit inferior to

The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London 1901

But Agricola, with his chestnut-brown hair and blue eyes, was no Oriental; only a Frieslander from the North, whose cold climate to the superb Italians seemed as benumbing to the intellect as we consider that of the Esquimaux.

The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London 1901

This sect was founded by Menno Simons, a Frieslander, contemporary of Luther; only this man swung on further from Catholicism than Luther and declared that a paid priesthood was what made all the trouble.

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 Elbert Hubbard 1885

Dutch school and the Frieslander school, each of which uses a peculiar kind of skate.

Holland, v. 1 (of 2) Edmondo De Amicis 1877

The Frieslander school, which is the older, aims only at speed; the Dutch school cultivates grace as well.

Holland, v. 1 (of 2) Edmondo De Amicis 1877

The Councillor Viglius, whom Barbara looked directly in the face, did not exactly profit by the contrast with Granvelle, for the small figure of the Frieslander barely reached to the chin of the distinguished native of tipper Burgundy, but his head presented a singular and remarkably vivid colouring.

Barbara Blomberg — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

"Not until the end of my life!" cried the Frieslander, his green eyes flashing angrily.

Barbara Blomberg — Complete Georg Ebers 1867