Sicilians

'Besides, the Goldonis aren't Sicilians, which is more than I can say for my husband.

The Kaisho Lustbader, Eric 1983

Constant communion with death makes for callosity of feeling; and the Calabrians and the Sicilians are the cruellest among the civilized peoples.

The Place of Honeymoons Harold MacGrath 1901

The Greeks, the Syrians, the Dalmatians, the Italians, and the Sicilians are the people who will use the canal, if anybody uses it.

Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2 Alexis de Tocqueville 1832

Being a pretty common story, however -- for the Sicilians are a hot-blooded race -- it was quite easy for the authorities to reconstruct the scene; and since Tochatti was innocent of any actual crime she was eventually released; only to fall ill with some affection of the brain which finally landed her in an asylum. "

Afterwards Kathlyn Rhodes

Three years later, the commission reported, friendly relations exist between the Sicilians, who predominate on the Near North Side and their Negro neighbors.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

After years of speaking only for “Italians” and “Sicilians,” Giambastiani now represented “the white people of St. Philip” against “the newly come Negroes.”

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

Some Negroes live harmoniously in the same tenements with Sicilians.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

Most of these “surly Sicilians” headed to the “Little Palermo” section of the French Quarter.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

Edward Ross, professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin and president of the American Sociological Association, argued in a 1914 book that because there was “no small infusion of Greek, Saracen, and African blood in the Calabrians and Sicilians,” they had reached only “a primitive stage of civilization.”

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

The creators of that music were descendants of slaves like Joe “King” Oliver, Ferdinand “Jelly Roll” Morton, and Louis Armstrong, and men who had been the half-naked children of the old, dark, fat Sicilians of Little Palermo.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010