Citations:Calmuck
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English citations of Calmuck
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. I, Phenomena
- Yes truly, few men that worship by the rotatory Calabash of the Calmucks do it in half so great, frank or effectual a way. Drury-lane, it is said, and that is saying much, may learn from him in the dressing of parts, in the arrangement of lights and shadows.
- 1872, Izydor Kopernicki, Characteristics of the Calmucks (Popular Science Monthly, v. 1, no. 4)
- The Calmucks primitively inhabited the countries northeast of the Chinese Empire. At the commencement of the seventeenth century, they arrived on the shores of the Caspian Sea; and they have camped there to the present day.