What is "plainsmen"

Usage examples of "plainsmen".

Why should Avshar let Yezd be ravaged if he can block the attack with these plainsmen, who are but tools in his hand?

The plainsmen needed it to trade their tallow, their honey, their wax, their furs and slaves for wheat, salt, wine, silk, and incense from Videssos, but many a nomad khagan had coveted it for his own—and so the stonework.

He was a bit taller than most plainsmen and carried himself like one used to leading.

Despite the wide detour the plainsmen took round the herds of some clan, they covered nearly as much ground in one day as Viridovix was used to doing in two.

You've seen how the plainsmen move, and no law makes the damned wizard-prince stay with any one clan.

By the spirits, you stand out more among plainsmen this way than as you were.

Until this horror, the plainsmen had struck him as men like any others—barbarous, yes, but their natures a mix of good and bad.

As Lipoxais translated, an angry muttering rose from the plainsmen round the fire.

That brought shouts from the plainsmen as it was interpreted, and a "Not bad," from Targitaus.

The pen-pusher was far more broad-minded there, though to him the plainsmen were so many savages.

Indeed, he could be said to lead it only because more plainsmen rode round his stan­dard than any other.

The steppe seemed endless, and the plainsmen with whom Virido­vix rode the only men on it.

In a normal year, the plainsmen would have been moving toward their winter pastures.

Still roaring the war call, the plainsmen dashed to their horses, leaving a great trampled place in the snow to show where they had stood.

He had traveled the steppes before and was at home with the customs of the plainsmen, speaking both the Arshaum and Khamorth tongues fluently.