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Why, in a decade or so, much of the Southwest will speak Spanish, taxes on the most productive americans will be through the roof, and the turban'd menace will be bearing down hard.
"Make the American people realize they are surrounded in the world by violent extremists." Ann Althouse 2007
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So ancient, hardly human, with your wooly, white, and turban'd head, and bare bony feet?
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To see a turban'd head sticking out of the window is a provoking proof of the triumph of the
Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir Lady Biddulph of Ledbury
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Planter: At other Times I view thee in the Semblance of a Wretch trod upon by ermin'd or turban'd Tyrants, and with poignant, heart-breaking Sighs, dragging after thee a toilsome Length of
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To see a turban'd head sticking out of the window is a provoking proof of the triumph of the Mussulman over these deserted Christian Knights.
Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. Ledbury, Lady Bidulph of 1910
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With your woolly-white and turban'd head and bare bony feet?
Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived William Joseph Long 1909
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Here first Burke advanced to the position that it might be the duty of other nations to interfere to restore the king to his rightful authority, just as England and Prussia had interfered to save Holland from confusion, as they had interfered to preserve the hereditary constitution in the Austrian Netherlands, and as Prussia had interfered to snatch even the malignant and the turban'd Turk from the pounce of the Russian eagle.
Burke Morley, John 1907
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--- Let him have a board and a morsel apart, --- unless, '' he said smiling, ` ` these turban'd strangers will admit his society. ''
Ivanhoe 1892
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With your woolly-white and turban'd head, and bare bony feet
Drum Taps Walt Whitman 1855
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Her high-borne turban'd head she wags, and rolls her darkling eye,
Drum Taps Walt Whitman 1855
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