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Mongolians

Mongols \Mon"gols\, Mongolians \Mon*go"li*ans\, n. pl. (Ethnol.) One of the great races of man, including the greater part of the inhabitants of China, Japan, and the interior of Asia, with branches in Northern Europe and other parts of the world. By some American Indians are considered a branch of the Mongols. In a more restricted sense, the inhabitants of Mongolia and adjacent countries, including the Burats and the Kalmuks.

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But it was impossible to stave off war with the Mongolians, who by now had subjugated the Russians, and were aiming at a world empire.

Ignoring the fact that the Mongolians had not used explosives for many generations, they nevertheless jumped at the conclusion that they were being raided by the Hans themselves, to whom the sound of the battle was evidently audible, and who were trying to locate the trouble.

I saw to my dismay that they were Mongolians, whose slit eyes revealed hatred, curiosity, and greed.

One wish would be fulfilled for me if I could meet that blond eutenant again who protected me from the Mongolians Russian li when I was captured.

While two of the other Mongolians held her, struggling and head shaven, Su Feng was impaled at the crotch on the point of the pole and slowly raised by the entire male part of the company, while the females lamented below.

No race ever played a more picturesque rôle in history than the Mongolians, and no race, from the point of view of achievement or intelligent progress, was of less value to the rest of mankind.

His neighbors were prehistoric Scandinavians, Patagonian Indians, Ice Age Mongolians, and late-twentieth-cen­tury Siberians.