What is "turkomans"

Usage examples of "turkomans".

He did not wish to be found where the Turkomans might connect him with the vanishing of the treasure they had battled to win.

The Turkomans squatted silently about their tiny fires, casting furtive glances over their shoulders.

They fired one wild, ragged volley, and then the Turkomans surged up over the wall in an ir­resistible wave and were slashing and hacking like madmen among the defenders.

In reality, the Afghan chief came storming out of the tower just as the Turkomans came surging over the wall.

The remnants of the Pathans were fleeing over the wall, harried by the triumphant Turkomans, who in victory were no more merciful than the average Oriental.

What had been an advantage was now a danger, for the men at the head of the valley would be com­ing at full run, and in the light of the fire they could pick off the Turkomans from the darkness.

The Turkomans fired point-blank into their faces, but they came on, snarling, snatching at the rifle barrels poked over the wall, stabbing upward.

No time to look right or left to see if the Turkomans still held the wall on either hand.

But if he returned to Shahrazar with the Turkomans, he must give the letter to Suleiman Pasha or be denounced to Orkhan - and that meant torture and death.

The Turkomans, who reverence Mahomet and follow his law, are a rude people, and dull of intellect.

Having acquired great celebrity, they were at length enabled, by the means of numerous tribes of Turkomans who joined their standard, to establish a sovereignty, or, in point of extent, an empire, the principal seat of which was in Persia.

But when they loitered here they could watch caravans coming in from Lahore, Kabul, Kandahar, Agra, and places even farther distant: Chinamen who had brought their silks down from Kashgar over the wastes of Leh, and Armenians who had sallied far to the east from their ghetto in Isfahan, and Turkomans from Bokhara, looking like poorer and shorter versions of the mighty Turks who held sway over Algiers.

Today, after having exhaustively examined ludicrously expensive rugs ranging from Turkomans to Safavids, with Vera finding none of them to be exactly what she had in mind, Jason was wild to get home and away from her.

Cordons of forts and stations formed a moving frontier to these settlements to the south, where the Turkomans were still strong and active.

For within Turkestan are not only Turkic peoples such as Turkomans, Uzbeks, Kyrgyz, Kazakhs, and Uighurs, but large pockets of Persian Tajiks and Caucasian tribes, and much smaller islands of Balti Tibetans and mongoloid races.