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5 Pioneering in New Guinea , pp. 3 and 4.
— from The Mafulu: Mountain People of British New Guinea by Robert Wood Williamson
2 Compare the Motumotu (Toaripi) practice of rubbing the dogs’ mouths with a special plant, referred to by Chalmers ( Pioneering in New Guinea , p. 305).
— from The Mafulu: Mountain People of British New Guinea by Robert Wood Williamson
Chalmers, Pioneering in New Guinea , p. 163.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck
369; Kirke, Twenty-five Years in British Guiana , p. 160; Chalmers, Pioneering in New Guinea , p. 163; Hodgson, Miscellaneous Essays , p. 123 (Bódo and Dhimáls); Baumann, Durch Massailand zur Nilquelle , p. 161 (Masai)
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck
Chalmers, Pioneering in New Guinea , p. 187; Romilly, Western Pacific and New Guinea , p. 239 sq. (However, Mr Romilly’s statement that “in all the known New Guinea languages there is not even a word for ‘thank you,’” is not quite correct, as appears from Chalmers op.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck
The front of the palace is now gaudily painted with white, green, and yellow, the only gilding being on the dome and cupolas of the church.
— from Northern Lands; Or, Young America in Russia and Prussia by Oliver Optic
43 36 Grey, Journals of Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia , ii. 238 sq. 37 Chalmers, Pioneering in New Guinea , p. 179.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck
I found the French by far the most difficult, chiefly on account of the accent, which my master himself possessed in no great purity, being a Norman by birth.
— from Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest by George Borrow
That the “Messiah” excels the “Pollio” is no great praise, if it be considered from what original the improvements are derived.
— from Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope by Samuel Johnson
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