What is "uigurs"

Usage examples of "uigurs".

The Chinese were soft, while the hard-riding Uigurs were hard—or had been, before civilization had softened them and made them vulnerable to the Kirghiz.

He nocked another arrow with the skill that few Uigurs and no Chinese could match and sent it flying at a shrub on a hillock thirty meters distant.

Alp appreciated the guards' tactical problem: on a one-to-one basis the Uigurs were supreme.

Because the Emperor wanted the Uigurs to think they were getting away with the abduction?

Most Galactics were too large and flabby even to be mistaken for Uigurs, in spite of the skillful makeup of the Machine.

Apparently she really had thrown in her lot with the Uigurs, hoping for faster advancement that way.

But the Uigurs could not pinpoint the enemy horses until more arrows had been fired.

Evasive maneuvers could prolong the battle, but only rank incompetence on the part of the Chinese would allow the Uigurs to escape cleanly.

Unless the other Uigurs had been put under stasis and released without being informed—difficult, but perhaps possible with contemporary technology.

The higher standard of living the Uigurs had sponsored was now regressing, and more barbarians were filling in.

Civilized and soft, as the Uigurs had been, they fell to intrigue and barbarism.

Meanwhile, he did have a stout ally in Uga, who seemed to have picked up in this part where he had left off as Khagan of the Uigurs, and who was the one man in all the Game who really understood him.

But he was aware that the Uigurs, after being displaced by the Kirghiz in 840, had settled in the Tarim Basin of the galaxy and become civilized farmers and traders.

Red Crescent and Red Cross inspectors reported that the refugees were made welcome by their coreligionists, the Uigurs, Kirghiz, Uzbeks, Tadjiks, and Kazakhs, who had lived in that part of China from time immemorial.