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Usage examples of nordic.

AEsir who dominated Nemedia were called Nemedians, and later figured in Irish history, and the Nordics who settled in Brythunia were known as Brythunians, Brythons or Britons.

The Cymric tribes of Britain were a mixed Nordic-Cimmerian race which preceded the purely Nordic Britons into the isles, and thus gave rise to a legend of Gaelic priority.

I found myself following the parade to the slave market, eager to see if this Nordic goddess would be put upon the block today.

Gwen left the nursery and walked outside to the pool, feeling overdressed in a heavy sweatshirt--the house was always airconditioned to a Nordic chill.

His frame was that of a Caucasian Nordic, topping mine by nearly thirty centimetres, but the face was at odds.

Some of the men were in German naval uniforms, others, in ordinary seaman's dungarees, but they all had the square dry-featured brutalised faces which Nazi ethnology had set up as the ideal of Nordic superiority.

He was not so bad once you had resigned yourself to the fact that you were in for occasional cataloguings of his armory--stone axes, copper axes, bronze axes, double-bladed axes, faceted axes, polygonal axes, scalloped axes, hammer axes, adze axes, Mesopotamian axes, Hungarian axes, Nordic axes, and all of them looking pretty moth-eaten.

The Nordic Princess was served by a crew of three hundred, mostly Dominicans and Haitians, with a few obligatory white Englishmen to serve as bell captains and maitre d's.

He also inherited their good looks: Johansen had the chiseled blond features of a Nordic warrior of old, although his slim, almost delicate build was more like that of a dancer than a Viking: With his slicked-back hair and thin-lipped smile he looked like a chorus boy from the Roaring Twenties.

Until the last century or so before the Christian era, the Mongol and the Nordic peoples had not been in close touch.

The British Union, the Nordic League, the Peace Pledge people, and all sorts of other dangerous bodies composed of rogues, cranks, half-wits and actual traitors were still allowed complete liberty to publish as much subversive literature as they liked and to advise cowards how to evade military service on the plea that they were conscientious objectors.

The SS Nordic Princess was a sleek cruise liner, and nearly brand-new.

The widespread belief that the Nordic nations are populated exclusively on the distaff side by these tow-headed goddesses is, however, a regrettable illusion.

He was also stupefied by the man's lankiness and height, and disturbingly reminded of a German by the blue and very nordic eyes.

The left he gave to the proud young warrior, Sifrit, who looked the part of a Nordic hero, blond shoulder-length hair and eyes the color of high mountain lakes.