He sees them all: the Levantine with the weak and cunning face, the swarthy Kurdish porter, the gorgeously arrayed dalmatian embassy servant, the huge, fair Turkish waterman in his spotless white dress, and the countless veiled Turkish women from the small harems of the little town, shuffling along in silence, or squatted peacefully upon a jutting point of the pier, veiled in yashmaks, the more transparent as they have the more beauty to show or the less ugliness to conceal.
"Paul Patoff"
F. Marion Crawford
By such an arrangement Austria would have retained nearly the whole of the Istrian Peninsula, the cities of Pola and Fiume, the entire dalmatian coast, and the majority of the dalmatian Islands.
"Italy at War and the Allies in the West"
E. Alexander Powell
On Austria he exerted a less imperious pressure; for her coast-line of Trieste and Croatia was so easily controlled by his Italian and dalmatian territories that English merchandise with difficulty found admittance.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose