What is "nubian"

Usage examples of "nubian".

A wandering tribe of the Blemmyes or Nubians invaded his solitary prison: in their retreat they dismissed a crowd of useless captives: but no sooner had Nestorius reached the banks of the Nile, than he would gladly have escaped from a Roman and orthodox city, to the milder servitude of the savages.

As usual, they were a mix of all races, though with a distinct Asian and African cast, here: Ethiops dark as night and brawny Nubians even darker, and fiat-faced fair-skinned Circassians and Avars and other sinewy northern folk, and some who might have been Persians or Indians, and even a sullen yellow-haired man who could have been a Briton or Teuton.

Another was a black woman, Ethiope or Nubian, and she of course had paddle feet and spindly calves and a behind like a balcony, but she was otherwise fairly comely: pretty face with not too-everted lips, shapely bosom and fine long hands.

He had a sprinkling of Fatimid Egyptian infantry and their Nubians, and some cynical Damascenes to man his siege machines.

But the old Kurd declared the ancestors of Hadith, the Nubian, were of a mystic sect.

The Nubian known as Hadith, slave to the sheik of sheiks, is reported to have revived the shadows of death and caused them to resume walking across the desert.

Only it was quickly apparent that this was ruled over by Hadith, the powerful black who had been a Nubian slave.

A series of explosions jarred the Nubian, and the lights on the control panel flickered weakly.

The night before, it was afterwards discovered, Madame de Lassa had eloped with a tall footman, taking the Nubian Sidi with them.

I supposed it to be one of the Nubian swearwords to which she resorted when in a temper.

The Yagi lost it almost immediately to a raiding party of Nubians, who most certainly had no idea what they had taken.

Sambatyon, in the rocky wastes where chimeras and manticores were waiting, and some of the nubians had had the joy of meeting the same end as Abdul.

With difficulty, Boidi reached the nubians, took his position behind them, and incited them to move, in one body, towards the Huns.

Let this Nubian, as thou callest him, first do his errand to our cousin--besides, he is mute too, is he not?

She would dress him as a Nubian pirate, as the Ace of Clubs, as King Melchior, and take him to the poor districts, above all when the galleons were anchored in the bay and the city went on a binge that lasted half a year.