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Genghis Khan
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  • Curiously enough, though he didn't know it, he was also a direct male-line descendant of Genghis Khan, though intervening generations and racial mixing had so juggled his genes that he had no discernible Mongoloid characteristics, and the only vestiges left in Mr. L. Prosser of his mighty ancestry were a pronounced stoutness about the tum and a predilection for little fur hats.†  (source)
  • Boston's gift to the boardrooms of Genghis Khan?†  (source)
  • Those tribesmen even held off Genghis Khan, and his guys were the Navy SEALs of the thirteenth century.†  (source)
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  • In 1812, Napoleon had marched his men fifteen hundred miles to Moscow; in the thirteenth century, Genghis Khan advanced four thousand miles from Mongolia to the shores of the Mediterranean.†  (source)
  • This man is a Napoleon, a Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun.†  (source)
  • Would I be willing to accept sixty-five, Genghis Khan's age on dying?†  (source)
  • He storms back and forth, bellowing like Genghis Khan at a troop inspection.†  (source)
  • His countenance and dress was that of a Mongol, but of a high caste—more Genghis Khan than Attila the Hun.†  (source)
  • Well, you sound suspiciously like Genghis Khan.†  (source)
  • In Balti, "Changazi" means "of the family of Genghis Khan," and can be used as a slang word conveying a terrifying type of ruthlessness.†  (source)
  • Her aunt was silent, and Jean Louise continued: "I was real impressed with the parable where since the dawn of history the rulers of the world have always been white, except Genghis Khan or somebody—the author was real fair about that—and he made a killin' point about even the Pharaohs were white and their subjects were either black or Jews—"†  (source)
  • Did you know, Young Ju, Gomo says and folds the baby shirt in a square, Genghis Khan— Outside, a car door slams.†  (source)
  • Some baddies wanted power—and the Egg, by its unique resources, has latent in it key to such power as Genghis Khan never dreamed.†  (source)
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