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(The first glance told her Kurdish origin. A narrow, oval face, rather large mouth, small black and shining eyes, a narrow, slightly aquiline hooked nose, were the signs of it; and her thinness in perfect keeping with the habit of the Kurdish form, which never grows fat.... Her tones were peculiar, not those of a woman, and though not deep, were clear and decisive, and abrupt. )
E. B. Soane, To Mesopotamia and Kurdistan, in Disguise, 1912
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