Unmistakable as to her race, she was yet a head and shoulders taller than the rest, but possessing the high cheek-bones, square face, and Mongolian cast of eyes which characterizes them.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
In crossing the peninsula by rail one does not enjoy the picturesque scenery which characterizes the Gotha Canal route.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
They seek to extend Government control only because, and only so far as, they believe Government control to be necessary and fitted to realize certain theories of right and well-being which they think it incumbent on organized society to realize; and consequently the thing that properly characterizes their position is not so much the degree of their confidence in the powers of the State as the nature of the theories of right for which they invoke its intervention.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae