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The portmanteau, being of occidental build, was no feather- weight; it had distressed the powerful Alan; and as for John, he was crushed under its bulk, and the sweat broke upon him thickly.
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But I was too restless to watch long; I am too Occidental for a long vigil.
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Major Putnam was a bald-headed, bull-necked man, short and very broad, with one of those rather apoplectic faces that are produced by a prolonged attempt to combine the oriental climate with the occidental luxuries.
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A sort of halo, an occidental glow, came over life then.
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The allied Chino-Japanese fleet made the same distinction as the Germans between airships and fighting machines heavier than air, but the type in both cases was entirely different from the occidental models, and—it is eloquent of the vigour with which these great peoples took up and bettered the European methods of scientific research in almost every particular the invention of Asiatic engineers.
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It was that very wonder which unsettled my sympathy of a dense Occidental.
Nathalie Haldin surprised me by saying, as if she had thought very much on the subject, that the occidentals did not understand the situation.
Admitting that we occidentals do not understand the character of your.
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said here the king on the left to himself; “one seeth he doth not know the good Occidentals, this sage out of the Orient!
This is from Merriam Webster online
Occidental
noun oc·ci·den·tal
Definition of Occidental
: a member of one of the occidental peoples; especially : a person of European ancestry
Occidental is to white people as Oriental is to yellow people. I used to do business with some Japanese who referred to themselves as “Oriental”. Occidental seldom appears in writing and almost never in conversation so most people don’t even know the word exists let alone what it means. I was probably in my thirties when I first encountered it in writing.