What is "abyssinian"

Usage examples of "abyssinian".

Also on the reception committee were Mrs Richard Chase Griffen, an Abyssinian maid in green and silver, Mrs.

What was Mount Abora, and why was the Abyssinian maid singing about it?

Dicky called him when he saw him on the morrow, because of the elephantine breeks he wore--was not averse to sending his Abyssinian slaves through the sugar-cane to waylay and rob, and worse, maybe.

In a paroxysm of passion Selamlik Pasha called two Abyssinian slaves standing behind.

The Pasha salaamed without a word, his Abyssinian slaves helped him on his great white donkey, and he trotted away towards the palace, the trousers flapping about his huge legs.

Shelek Pasha motioned back the Abyssinian slaves who had sprung forward menacingly from behind a screen.

Yet, with her own eyes she had seen Abyssinian slaves sold in the market-place of Assiout.

Let your name be carried to the Abyssinian mountains as the voice of the eagle.

Bernard Shaw justified the Abyssinian conquest of Italy by saying that there was danger to human life while passing through the Dankal desert.

Instead, she took a step back, to the safety of the Abyssinian War memorial.

But then no doubt the little midshipman had never imagined himself on an Abyssinian mountainside, with his rockets.

Clotho picked a white Abyssinian, fussing over it tremendously, hardly willing to put the kitten down.

From a chance remark of the Abyssinian, Werper discovered the purpose of the expedition, and when he realized that these men were the enemies of Achmet Zek, he took heart, and immediately blamed his predicament upon the Arab.

Lest, however, he might again fall into the hands of the raider, he discouraged Abdul Mourak in the further prosecution of his pursuit, assuring the Abyssinian that Achmet Zek commanded a large and dangerous force, and also that he was marching rapidly toward the south.

It was then that there dawned upon him the possibility of the success of a different course which would still leave him in possession of the jewels, while at the same time satisfying the greed of the Abyssinian with the conviction that he had obtained all that Werper had to offer.