"Burma" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Moslem sentiment; the convert to Al- Islam being theoretically respected and practically despised. The Turks call him a "Burma"twister, a turncoat, and no one either trusts him or believes ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 7 • Richard F. Burton
... of Limehouse through a haze of Oriental mystery conjured up by the conversation of his companion. Temple bells there were in the clangour of the road cars. The smoke-stacks had a semblance of pagodas. Burma she had conjured up before him, and China, and the soft islands where she had first seen the light. For as well as a streak of European, there was Kanaka blood in Lala, which lent her an appeal quite new to Durham, insidious and ...
— Tales of Chinatown • Sax Rohmer
... in Chicago tells me that on making inquiry of 25 middle-class married men in succession be found that 16 had been first seduced by a woman. An officer in the Indian Medical Service writes to me as follows: "Once at a club in Burma we were some 25 at table and the subject of first intercourse came up. All had been led astray by servants save 2, whom their sisters' governesses had initiated. We were all men in the 'service,' so the facts may be taken to be typical of what occurs in our stratum of society. All had had sexual ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis
... which comes from wells bored deep down in the ground in Pennsylvania, in the south of Russia, in Burma, and elsewhere. Also it is distilled in Scotland from oil shale, from which paraffin oil and wax and similar substances are produced. When the oil is brought to the surface it contains many impurities, and in its native ...
— The Mastery of the Air • William J. Claxton
... and etchings purport to be representations of India, Burma, and Cashmire. The diamond-points, I believe, purport to be diamond-points. In some of the etchings there is the same ingenious touch of hand, but anything more woful than the oil pictures cannot easily be imagined. ...
— Modern Painting • George Moore
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