Citations:Calmuck

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English citations of Calmuck

  • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. I, Phenomena
    Yes truly, few men that worship by the rotatory Calabash of the Calmucks do it in half so great, frank or effectual a way. Drury-lane, it is said, and that is saying much, may learn from him in the dressing of parts, in the arrangement of lights and shadows.
  • 1872, Izydor Kopernicki, Characteristics of the Calmucks (Popular Science Monthly, v. 1, no. 4)
    The Calmucks primitively inhabited the countries northeast of the Chinese Empire. At the commencement of the seventeenth century, they arrived on the shores of the Caspian Sea; and they have camped there to the present day.