Isabella Bird Quotes - Page 2 of 2

The Japanese look most diminutive in European dress. Each garment is a misfit and exaggerates the miserable physique and the national defects of concave chests and bow legs. The lack of 'complexion' and of hair upon the face makes it nearly impossible to judge of the ages of men.
Isabella Bird / Writer
Complexion

Defects

Legs

Miserable

Physique

Ages

Judge

Bow

Nearly

Chest

European

Exaggerate

Garment

Japanese
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The Americans will never solve the Indian problem till the Indian is extinct. They have treated them after a fashion which has intensified their treachery and 'devilry' as enemies, and as friends reduces them to a degraded pauperism, devoid of the very first elements of civilization.
Isabella Bird / Writer
Elements

Indian

Treachery

Degraded

Devoid

Enemies

Extinct

Intensified

Till
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The plantations in the Hilo district enjoy special advantages, for by turning some of the innumerable mountain streams into flumes, the owners can bring a great part of their cane and all their wood for fuel down to the mills without other expense than the original cost of the woodwork.
Isabella Bird / Writer
Fuel

Mills

Mountain

Owners

Streams

Advantages

Cane

Turning

District

Expense

Great Part

Wood
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Cock-fighting, which has attained to the dignity of a literature of its own, is the popular Malay sport; but the grand sport is a tiger and buffalo fight, reserved for rare occasions, however, on account of its expense. Cock-fighting is a source of gigantic gambling and desperate feuds.
Isabella Bird / Writer
Buffalo

Desperate

Dignity

Gambling

Literature

Reserved

Account

Attained

Rare

Fight

Expense

Sport

Gigantic

Grand

However

Popular

Rare Occasions

Tiger
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The word 'aloha,' in foreign use, has taken the place of every English equivalent. It is a greeting, a farewell, thanks, love, goodwill. Aloha looks at you from tidies and illuminations; it meets you on the roads and at house-doors. It is conveyed to you in letters: the air is full of it.
Isabella Bird / Writer
Air

Farewell

Goodwill

Letters

Looks

Taken

Thanks

English

Full

Conveyed

Equivalent

Greeting

Word

Meets

Roads
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An American store is generally a very extensive apartment, handsomely decorated, the roof frequently supported on marble pillars. The owner or clerk is seen seated by his goods, absorbed in the morning paper - probably balancing himself on one leg of his chair, with a spittoon by his side.
Isabella Bird / Writer
Apartment

Goods

Marble

Pillars

Roof

Absorb

Balancing

Chair

Clerk

Decorated

Extensive

Frequently

Owner

Leg

Seated

Store
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