K K is a consonant that we get from the Greeks, but it can be traced away back beyond them to the Cerathians, a small commercial nation inhabiting the peninsula of Smero.
A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good Mussulman, whose belief in her existence marks a noble discontent with his earthly spouse, whom he denies a soul.
In North-European mythology, a dwarfish imp inhabiting the interior parts of the earth and having special custody of mineral treasures.
A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inhabiting the lower part of the peninsula of Oque.
Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile.
Doubtless, the European colonists, as they gradually extended their settlements eastward, gave this name to the home of the people whom they found inhabiting this maritime slope and the country beyond it.
The negroid branch of the African race is doubtless of mixed ancestry, descended from the true negro and from the white race inhabiting North and East Africa.
The Djin were formerly the souls of a great peopleinhabiting this region.
Of all the mammalian animals inhabiting the forest the monkey tribe is the most numerous; but the poor monkey is surrounded by enemies, the greatest being man, who sets traps everywhere to catch him.
This is the case at Moorunde, where three different dialects meet, the Yakkumban, or dialect spoken by the Paritke tribe, or natives inhabiting the scrub to the west and north-west of the Murray.
Other tribes of natives give an account of a serpent of immense size, and inhabiting high rocky mountains, which, they say, produced creation by a blow of his tail.
The Jarcoorts, inhabiting the country to the west of the great lake 'Carangermite,' once a very numerous and powerful people, are now reduced to under sixty.
Among those natives inhabiting the sandy drifts along the western coast, where the sand is always circling about in a perfect shower, I have no doubt but that many become blind from its effects.
The "Paritke," or natives inhabiting the scrub north-west of Moorunde, have quite a different form of dancing from the river natives.
The preceding list comprises the birds inhabiting the settled districts of South Australia: viz.
I believe that the idea of attempting to deduce the character of the continent, and the most probable line for crossing it, from the circumstances and habits of the natives inhabiting the coast line is quite a novel one.
In the fens of East Anglia have been found two humeri, one of them immature, of a true Pelecanus, a bird now no longer inhabiting middle Europe.
In habits the binturong is nocturnal and arboreal, inhabiting forests, and living on small vertebrates, worms, insects and fruits.
The snow-bunting, the jerfalcon, and the snowy owl are also white-coloured birds inhabiting the arctic regions, and there can be little doubt but that their colouring is to some extent protective.
It resembled greatly the Chelidona oblonga, inhabiting Western Australia, with the exception of the arch and its more oval shape; and as in that kind, the last vertebral plate was divided by a suture.
A flying doe, inhabiting the grass flats, of more than ordinary size, was killed.
For it must be borne in mind, that very frequently, a tribe inhabiting one valley is ignorant of the language spoken in the next.
There is a species of water-rat inhabiting the coast of Australia, called Hydromys chrysogaster; but this was the first time we met with anything like it.
The people inhabiting the islands fronting the coast, Captain Blackwood found to be highly inclined to trade, readily bartering a valuable species of tortoise-shell for European articles of hardware.
When the new hotel rises up in the wilderness, it is presumed that people will come there with the express object of inhabiting it.
From these facts we are justified in concluding that the population then inhabiting the Forest were regarded as a brave and skilful race, not merely in their own quarter of the kingdom, but also in the camp of its Kings.
Besides deer inhabiting the Forest from the earliest times, no doubt it was also frequented by all such animals as used to be accounted "beasts of the forest," viz.
He tells much that is interesting in regard to the Indians inhabiting Florida when the Spaniards invaded it.
But by far the most numerous and singular portion of the population of the islet, consisted of a species of large land-crab, inhabiting burrows hollowed out beneath the roots of the trees.
Thirdly come the Aryans, inhabiting mainly that portion of India north of the Nerbudda which is known as Hindustan proper.
In the family Lymænana, the species are amphibious; inhabiting fresh-water; but rising to the surface to breathe the air.
These genera consist mostly of small shells, inhabiting stones, into which they bore holes.
The animals inhabitingthese shells are Cephalopoda.
It was founded in 1527 by Juan de Ampues, who gave to it the name of Santa Ana de Coriana (afterwards corrupted to Santa Ana de Coro) in honour of the day and of the tribe of Indians inhabiting this locality.
The wallaroo, of a blackish colour, with coarse shaggy fur, inhabiting the hills.
Note]: "A small kind of kangaroo, inhabiting the scrub.
The epithet plain refers to its inhabiting plains.
Those remarkable identities of type discovered between organisms inhabiting one medium, and strangely-modified organisms inhabiting another medium, are at the same time rendered comprehensible.
The totality of the animals naturally inhabiting a certain country or region, or which have lived during a given geological period.
Several of the genera of Myomorpha contain species inhabiting the northern hemisphere, which habitually hibernate.
This is true even of familiar species inhabiting Europe and North America, which have been objects of study for many years.
At the outset we did not so much as know with certainty the names of the several wild and savage tribes inhabiting the more remote and inaccessible portions of the archipelago.
During considerable periods they did not really pretend to exercise control over the criminal Filipinos inhabiting the west coast of the island.
Few, indeed, of the delegates from non-Christian territory had ever set foot in the provinces or comandancias from which they were appointed, or would have been able to so much as name the wild tribe or tribes inhabiting them.
The census of Mexico shows that there are over six millions of pure blooded Indians or descendants of the ancient races inhabiting this country.
There are large districts of country in northern Mexico well adapted to sheep raising, not suitable for farming or inhabiting to any great extent.
When this continent was first discovered there were millions of Indians inhabiting it, extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the north sea to the Gulf of Mexico.
Many of the lower classes, inhabiting the southern deserts, would sell their own children for a horse and kill and eat the horse.
The Camucones are a nation inhabiting some islands subject to the king of Burney.
