What is "californian"

Usage examples of "californian".

The noble Californian, Jerome Davis--he of the celebrated ranch--sticks by me like a twin brother, although I fear that in my hot frenzy I more than once anathematised his kindly eyes.

Maybe even more disconcerting, I thought, would be to take one of those citified californians and move her to the Old West.

His deconstructionist accounts of science began with his experience as a post-doctoral anthropologist, when he spent a year as a partially participant observer in a Californian laboratory working on the identification and isolation of a neurohormone.

Flower of author is not quite so common as the buttercup, the Californian poppy, or the gay Texan gaillardia, and for that very reason the finality it gives off will never be robust enough for a mankind at large that would have things cut and dried, and labelled in thick letters.

There were small, spiky yellow shrubs that looked like the desert holly and honeysweet and spurge that had once clung to life in the Californian deserts of North America.

Others were simple men of the land, Minnesotans or Californians walking to the legislature under their own steam.

One ladybeetle, the Rodolia beetle, achieved fame when it was exported to California in 1888 and successfully saved the Californian citrus industry from devastation by the cottony cushion scale.

But when the yacht was finally cleared to proceed, and the officers ferried across to the cutter in the inflatable workboat, they admitted that, not only was there no coke on the vessel, but the passengers were all genuine Californian businessmen taking a hunting holiday.

No Californian gentleman or lady ever abuses or oppresses a Chinaman, under any circumstances, an explanation that seems to be much needed in the East.

I also at the same time became chairman of the board of the Californian Skyship Corporation and set to work building a new ship that would carry a crew of diplomats and scientists back to the land beneath the world.

The Hackers Conference, which had been started in 1984, was a yearly Californian meeting of digital pioneers and enthusiasts.

On the contrary, the hackers of this conference were mostly well-to-do Californian high-tech CEOs, consultants, journalists and entrepreneurs.

Unlike his other contemporaries, he does not have a promiscuous, sex life and prefers to read or study artthe paintings of the Japanese artist Kuniyoshi are among his favouritesand often surprises the wealthy Californians who form the majority of his clients and suspects with his knowledge and erudition.

Californian bloodstock agent: he regularly sold the horses shipped by Larry Trent and paid the proceeds as instructed into three bank accounts in the name of Stewart Naylor.

Robert Ingersoll once said that the genial climate of California would in a fairly brief time evolve a race resembling the Mexicans, and that in two or three generations the Californians would be seen of a Sunday morning on their way to a cockfight with a rooster under each arm.