Esquimau
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Esquimaux,
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Esquimau
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Nansen, indeed, tried to talk to them in Esquimau from a conversation book in that tongue he had with him, but it was perfectly useless.
From Fridtjof Nansen A book for the young by Jacob B. Bull
At six the same evening our travellers followed in the same direction, and in a short time reached the Esquimau encampment at Cape Bille.
From Fridtjof Nansen A book for the young by Jacob B. Bull
But although an Esquimau, he exhibited several physical peculiarities not commonly supposed to belong to that people.
From Ungava by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
When you take into consideration the fact that all this fitting and smoothing is done with stone implements, you will believe me when I say the Esquimau sledge is a wonderful thing.
From Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892 by James Elverson
But luck was with them, and one day, late in the afternoon, they heard a loud shout, and saw an Esquimau, standing on a hillock of ice, waving his arms at them.
From First at the North Pole Two Boys in the Arctic Circle by Edward Stratemeyer
He has done much ethnological study among the Labrador Esquimaux, has taught Anthropology at Bowdoin.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I mean such as Malay proas, catamarans, Arab dhows, Chinese sanpans, Japanese pilot boats, Turkish caiques, Esquimaux kiacks, Alaskan war canoes, the hooded boats of the Swiss Lakes, and so on.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
It got so that I liked the rehearsals, even though it meant that I couldn't be drawing the Great Esquimaux Curlew with Mr. Powell on Saturday afternoons.
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
You stretch your neck up like the Great Esquimaux Curlew.
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
“The Great Esquimaux Curlew. An actor if ever there was one.”
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
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