Sentence example with the word 'orientalist'

orientalist

Definition n. a specialist in oriental subjects

Last update: June 10, 2015


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"You are too good," said the master of Trinity, "to die of drinking punch in the torrid zone"; and Watson, instead of becoming, as he had flattered himself, a great orientalist, remained at home to be elected professor of chemistry, a science of which he did not at the time possess the simplest rudiments.   [Please select]

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He was learned even to erudition, and almost an Orientalist.   [Please select]

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--At the Orientalist Congress in London a most interesting document was submitted by the Rev.   [Please select]

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The preparation of this labor of love occupied the editor a year, assisted by John Leyden, a man of great promise, who died in India in 1811, having made a mark as an Orientalist.   [Please select]

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Before I left Vienna Baron Hammer, the great Orientalist, called upon me; his wife was just dead, poor thing, which prevented him showing me all the civility which he would otherwise have done.   [Please select]

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