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Example sentences for "negroid"

Lexicographically close words:
negress; negresses; negri; negro; negroes; negundo; negus; nehmen; nei; neibor
  1. It may be pointed out that the Badagas and Kotas of the Nilgiri plateau are not "wild tribes," have no trace of negroid characters, and no affinities with the Kurumbas and Irulas of the Nilgiri slopes.

  2. He was a large, stout man, negroid in type, for his mother was a slave, and as generous as he was large, to Arab and European alike.

  3. The Fijians are Melanesians, a negroid people said by some to be a "sub-branch" of the Polynesians.

  4. The Fijian doubtless inherits some of his musical qualities from his negroid mixture, but he has certainly improved upon it if that is so.

  5. They are for the most part men of splendid physique, tall and straight, and of a red-brown colour, and their features are of the negroid type.

  6. The second is a negroid Arab, hailing from the island of Pemba.

  7. Nor was the man of the white race ever at any time a negroid or a mongolian.

  8. The name "New Guinea" was bestowed upon the island by the Spanish captain, Ynigo Ortz de Retes, in 1515, when he saw the negroid natives of its northern shores.

  9. Altogether, this religion seems to have been as sordid, brutal and vicious as was the ancestral negroid stock of the Fijians.

  10. The Berbers drove back the Negroes towards the south, while the Ethiopians, a little later, filtered through the Negroid mass from east to west.

  11. As a race the Antanosi are less negroid than the other Malagasies, and recall rather the Betsimasaraka.

  12. Turkish elements in Persia and Turkey, Indo-Afghan elements in Afghanistan, and Arab and Negroid elements in the south of Persia and Baluchistan.

  13. The tendency of some of the lower negroid types has been to drift towards the west coast, where they still practise cannibalistic and fetish rites.

  14. On the other hand, the peoples of African or negroid derivation form a radical contrast, their heads being quite long and narrow, with indices ranging from 75 to 78.

  15. Among nearly all their tribes the negroid traits are far more accentuated among the women, according to Sergi.

  16. Negroid and scintillating, the parody ceased upon a plaintive chord, reminiscent of some southern spiritual.

  17. A diminutive hall had been rendered significant, not to say sinister, by being lined to the ceiling by large black and white tiles, and encircled by a Gauguinesque frieze, negroid and undefinably lecherous.

  18. Australia was originally peopled by two distinct types of men: the Australoids and the negroid Tasmanians.

  19. The women were generally much shorter in stature than the men, with darker skins and more negroid features.

  20. The Tasmanians were distinctly more negroid than the Australoids.

  21. Even at the present day some of the Maori women are very negroid in appearance.

  22. Yet the existence of a negroid element among the Maoris of New Zealand is undoubted.

  23. On the other hand, the Polynesians were scarcely ever seen without some covering; they had, in fact, a sense of decency which was almost entirely absent from the negroid races of Oceania in their primitive condition.

  24. The indigenous inhabitants of Timor are mainly of Papuan or Negroid stock, with a considerable intermixture of Mongolian Malay.

  25. The seafaring vessels of the Polynesians were as much of an advance on the dug-out canoes of the negroid Papuans as these last were superior to the rafts and bark coracles of the Australoids.

  26. It should also be noted that in many other outlying Pacific islands besides New Zealand, there are traditions and even the remains of implements to suggest a former wide migration eastward of the Negroid type--even as far as Hawaii.

  27. The inhabitants belong mainly to the Melanesian or Negroid stock, and are no doubt closely related to the Papuans of New Guinea.

  28. In the Negroid race the hairs are flat, and have a flattened appearance, and in the Mongoloid race they are perfectly round.

  29. Mr. Stombaugh, you were discussing the characteristics of Caucasian as opposed to Negroid and Mongoloid hair.

  30. In the Negroid hair the cuticle is very thick.

  31. In Negroid hair it is clumped, and in Mongoloid hair it is dense.

  32. In Negroid hair the pigment is medium to coarse, but the big difference is that the pigment granules are clumped together, leaving large white-gapped areas throughout the cortex of the hair.

  33. Looking at the hair under low power--under a low-power microscope--we find that a Caucasian hair differs from the hair of the Negroid or Mongoloid race in diameter fluctuation.

  34. Negroid hairs are dense black usually; some are white.

  35. In Negroid hair, there is great fluctuation.

  36. The Mongoloids are always black, but not quite as dense black as those of the Negroid race.

  37. In Melanesia, the Papuans of New Guinea, of New Caledonia, and other islands, represent a more or less Negroid type, as did the now extinct Tasmanians.

  38. Two important families are classed in this division; some authorities hold, as special modifications of the typical Negro to-day, others as actually nearer the true generalized Negroid type of neolithic times.

  39. Negroid or Black Man is primarily represented by the Negro of Africa between the Sahara and the Cape district, including Madagascar.

  40. For Mulai Hamed was a negroid Arab, whose ruffianly aspect was rather enhanced by the swaggering way he carried a broad shoulder-belt and brass badge of office.

  41. Her dainty profile offered a striking contrast to the motley crew of negroid Arabs who surrounded her.

  42. He had overturned the negroid government in the state though backed by a million bayonets in the hands of veteran battle-tried soldiers.

  43. Above all, he would leave the negroid conditions that made his shame possible and rear his boy in clean air.

  44. The negroid state Government would thus command an armed black guard of fifty thousand men and leave the white race without protection.

  45. He knew Cleo too well, understood her hatred of negroes too well, to believe that she would deliberately push this child back into a negroid hell merely to wreak a useless revenge that would crush her own life as well.

  46. He noticed the growth of her lips with age, the heavy sensual thickness of the negroid type!

  47. The next two weeks and this election will decide whether white civilization shall live or a permanent negroid mongrel government, after the pattern of Haiti and San Domingo, shall be established.

  48. At this moment he was the one man hated and feared most by the negroid government in power, the one man most admired and trusted by the white race.

  49. No move was made by the negroid government to bring the imprisoned men to trial and apparently no effort was being made by the men inside the jails to regain their liberty.

  50. He saw instead a face of the clean-cut Aryan type with scarcely a trace of negroid character.

  51. She might love a murderer, but there was one thing beyond all question, this beautiful, sensitive, cultured girl could not love the man who had thrust her into the hell of a negroid life in America!

  52. He was surprised to find not the slightest trace of negroid blood apparent, though he knew that a mixture of the sixteenth degree often left no trace until its sudden reversion to a black child.

  53. And by that you mean the gradual breaking down of racial barriers and the degradation of our people to a mongrel negroid level or you mean nothing!

  54. Here is a quotation from Eckermann's Voodooism and the Negroid Religions: "'The true voodoo-worshipper attempts nothing of importance without certain sacrifices which are intended to propitiate his unclean gods.

  55. Then the west of Britain was invaded by a negroid type from France followed by an Eskimo type of which traces are still to be seen in the West of Ireland and parts of Scotland.

  56. Those who migrated to the continent did not include many with dominant negroid characteristics.

  57. In its usual form the Anglo-Saxon or Teutonic race was depicted as superior, and the Semitic and Negroid races as inferior.

  58. But let us allow the Negroid the benefit of the doubt and accord him the fullest credit.

  59. The assumed inferiority of both the Negro and the Negroid is argued at length, and proved by a great variety of considerations.

  60. The most that can be said is that the European series will show more very large brains than the negroid, and the negroid series more very small brains than the Europeans.

  61. Vain and foolish for even the superior Negroid to try to take the kingdom of heaven by force, to conquer a position among the Whites commensurate with his abilities as a Black.

  62. The reader must observe that, however much one may "minimize," it remains at the last impossible to evaporate the solid central fact that the "Negroid brain is somewhat less developed than the European.

  63. Once more, we now come to see clearly the immense significance of the admittedly "somewhat less developed Negroid brain.

  64. We are probably justified in saying that, anatomically, the brains of negroid races are somewhat less developed than those of Europeans.

  65. But the Boston Negroid still swears by the classics and logarithms, and regards the recent change of front as little less than a betrayal and surrender.

  66. This man was of a moderate size, and with a black negroid face.

  67. I thought him a fair specimen of the negroid type when I had finished him, and he lay bandaged, bound, and motionless before me.

  68. Given peace, it may be expected that the mixed negroid races of the Upper Nile will prove themselves as orderly and industrious as they are conspicuously brave.

  69. Many of the negroid races of the Central Soudan are excellent horsemen.


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