oriental's

Had Moll not been exhausted from pain and exertion she might have noticed the slight change on the oriental's inscrutable face; the ghost of a smile that played briefly over his lips; the telltale sparkle of the night black eyes; or the faint click as his foot stepped down on a certain design woven into the carpet.

Tentacles Of Evil Adams, Stephen 2004

There was another deafening report, and the turban flew from the oriental's head just as a paper-bag will fly before a March wind.

Desert Love Joan Conquest

But he stood motionless just behind her, waiting himself, with the oriental's implicit belief for some deciding sign from Fate.

Desert Love Joan Conquest

By this time the oriental's head was bobbing like a mandarin's, whilst in a spasm of terror his mouth opened and shut unceasingly.

Desert Love Joan Conquest

He was a burly man, with a heavy countenance impassive as an oriental's, out of which, startling in its unexpected rapidity, a glance flashed and stabbed as steely as Loyola's sword.

Mountain Blood A Novel Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

Red Reckless, touseled and sleepy eyed looking to the astonished oriental's vision like an avenging demon, threatening to choke him to death with his own pigtail and to roast him crisp and brown him in his own oven if he didn't conduct himself with less noise in his pastime of breakfast getting.

The Short Cut Jackson Gregory 1912

The last that Keith was conscious of seeing of Shan Tung was the oriental's eyes.

The River's End James Oliver Curwood 1903

For a space the oriental's evil eyes had widened, exposing wider rims of saffron white, betraying his amazement, the shock of Keith's unexpected revolt, and then the lids closed slowly, until only dark and menacing gleams of fire shot between them, and Keith thought of the eyes of a snake.

The River's End James Oliver Curwood 1903

This power was the oriental's marvelous ability to remember faces.

The River's End James Oliver Curwood 1903

"Hah!" ejaculated Yussuf smiling with satisfaction, and with all the oriental's love of bright colours, as he took the two yellow silk handkerchiefs, and rolled them loosely before arranging them in a picturesque fashion round his bright scarlet fez, and handing the head-dress back to Mr Burne.

Yussuf the Guide The Mountain Bandits; Strange Adventure in Asia Minor George Manville Fenn 1870