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Kuniyoshi made his reputation in the 1920s with relatively cheerful designs featuring plump ladies in swimming, cows, babies and trapeze artists fitted together in orientally flat, bird's-eye perspectives.

From Time Magazine Archive

When an especially handsome guest entered his orientally furnished, book-lined labyrinth in the old Greek quarter of Alexandria, Cavafy would light an extra candle in silent tribute.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Coulomb story is that a pasteboard doll, with half-shrouded head, superimposed on the shoulders of Mr. Coulomb, himself orientally draped, moved about in the dusk at Adyar when an “astral” apparition was wanted.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)

He reminded me a good deal of our old pirate and bandit friend, Trelawney, though the latter was an almost orientally dark-complexioned man, and Mr. Bret Harte was comparatively fair.

From The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers by Merwin, Henry Childs

A Vandyke beard of glossy, golden brown, rather long and wavy hair, smoothly parted, and large, magnetic, orientally occult eyes gave him a most impressive and striking appearance.

From Strictly business: more stories of the four million by Henry, O.