Nomads
[nəʊ,mædz]
Examples
- The Semitic nomads of the Arabian desert seem also to have had a heliolithic stage. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The townsmen despise and cheat the nomads, the nomads ill-treat and despise the townsfolk. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They were not nomads. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Presently in the fourth and fifth centuries the weather grew drier and the grass became scanty, and the nomads stirred afresh. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They became a weapon against the dwindling power of the Mongolian nomads, first in Turkestan and then across Siberia as far as the Amur. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And the Semitic nomads were closer to the earlier civilizations, a thing that fitted in with their greater aptitude for trade and counting. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They are primitive nomads in an excited state, because they have just come upon civilization, and regard it as an opportunity for war and loot. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Wells were stopped up and pastures destroyed by the nomads. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- These streams of nomads flowed by Persia on either side. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Nomads without central grazing lands must disperse; nothing else is possible. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A second great thrust by China began about 75 A.D., and accelerated the westward drift of the nomads. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Down pour the united nomads on the unwarlike, unarmed plains, and there ensues a war of conquest. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We must tell now who this prophet was who had arisen among the nomads and traders of the Arabian desert. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The drift of the nomads before this Chinese thrust, century by century, turned southward at first towards Bactria. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In contrast with the settled folk, the agriculturists, these nomads lived freely and dangerously. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Like all the empires founded by nomads, it was, to begin with, purely a military and administrative empire, a framework rather than a rule. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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