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Usage examples of tatar.

Making toward the archepiscopal palace, the column could not manage any pace faster than a slow walk through streets thronged with foreignersScots, Irish, Burgundians, Germans from several parts of the Empire, Livonians, a scattering of Kalmyks or Tatars.

A plague outbreak did indeed erupt in Kaffa, and the Tatars took the city.

Tatars, too, who had wandered into Asia Minor and been ground into the Ottoman empire with the rest--stocky Kalmucks, who had been on the point of mutiny at the beginning of the march, but had been quieted by a harangue from Donald MacDeesa, in their own tongue.

On a lepidopterological expedition in late summer Nabokov visited Chufut-kale and Bakhchisaray, the ancient residence of the Tatar khans in central Crimea whose fountain provides the title for two famous Pushkin poems.

Their Tatar names are still marked on maps of southern Russia and the Volga lands: Penza, Chembar, Ardym, Anybei, Kevda, Ardatov and Alatyr.

Alexandra was puzzled by a dozen polished black granite stones, each engraved with the names and dates of Polonized Tatars, along with a crescent moon and a star.

The continual marriages of these people with the chosen beauties of Georgia and Circassia have overpowered the original ugliness of their Tatar ancestors.

Duke Friederich and Archcount Vladalong of my condottas and those of the justly famous condottiere Sir Wenceslaus, Count Horeszko, had but just thoroughly defeated the southeastern ordus of the Khan of the Tatars and what with the unbelievably rich loot of their baggage trains and base camp, it was every high-ranking professional officer was just then owning enough of a fortune for to buy the most of my carefully assembled condottas off of me.

Hitherto, in all my wandering, I had been under the care of other people - sailors, Tatars, guides, and dragomen had watched over my welfare, but now at last I was here in this African desert, and I myself, and no other, had charge of my life.

Ahead the Tatars twisted and writhed, mouthed tortured cries, then dropped out of their saddles to lie limply on the ground as if the arrows aimed at the master had instead struck each to the heart.

The other gentleman—Scot or Irisher, by the look of him—and the Tatar trailed close behind the leading trio.

The other gentlemanScot or Irisher, by the look of himand the Tatar trailed close behind the leading trio.

Travis was still of two minds about this questioning, but the Tatar camp had been close to the towers and there was a good chance the Mongols had explored them.