Tribes

Examples

• Warlike Tribes have been put to flight so easily by civilised armies in modern times that such tribes have been doubted as possessing their boasted or even natural courage. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He made these of honey, of barley, and, as the Aryan tribes spread southward, of the grape. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Among nations of hunters, such as the native tribes of North America, age is the sole foundation of rank and precedency. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It is well known that Indians are of different tribes, nations, and languages, as well as the white people. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The Latin tribes on the other side of the Tiber were by comparison barbaric. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Possibly they pronounced their consonants very hard and had rather indeterminate vowels, as is said to be still the case with tribes of South Arabia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Probably each of these original tribes was not more numerous altogether than the Indians in Hudson Bay Territory to-day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There were quite a number of remnants of tribes in the vicinity of Portland in Oregon, and of Fort Vancouver in Washington Territory. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Mixed races produce mixed results, splendid, I own, in many cases, but not so severely unique and classic as would be the case with untamed tribes. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The tribes are represented by their totems, martens, bear, manfish, and catfish, led by the crane. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• These Etruscan people conquered most of Italy north of the Tiber from the Aryan tribes who were scattered over that country. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Crassus found himself against the Scythian again; against mobile tribes of horsemen led by a monarch in Median costume. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The sheiks of the tribes, under a king of the poets, sat in judgment and awarded prizes; the prize songs were sung through all Arabia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Take the case of our own Indian tribes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Wu Wang seems to have been helped by allies from among the south-western tribes as well as by a popular revolt. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Were the souls of the twelve tribes in her single body, it were better she suffered alone, than that Bois-Guilbert were partner in her destruction. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Tribes of savages still have in use cords made of various materials and some of them very well made. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In North America a group of Mongoloid tribes were now cut off altogether from the old world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The original method of bread making and the method employed by savage tribes of to-day is to mix crushed grain and water until a paste is formed, and then to bake this over a camp fire. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• An approving murmur arose from the heads of tribes; as saying, 'There you have him! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Throughout the seventh and eighth centuries a steady process of conversion to Christianity went on amidst these German and Slavonic tribes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Not the reign of your vainly-expected Messiah offers such power to your dispersed tribes as my ambition may aim at. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Somewhere between central Europe and western Asia there must have wandered a number of tribes sufficiently intermingled to develop and use one tongue. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• All such influences were still in another world, separated by mountains, deserts, and wild nomadic tribes until that time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• No race knows so well as thine own tribes how to submit to the time, and so to trim their bark as to make advantage even of an adverse wind. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Veneering and other elders of tribes commended this way out of it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• In addition to these early Neolithic tribes, there must have been various varieties of still more primitive forest folk in Africa and in India. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In such a country as Gaul it was already well in progress in the days of insecurity _before_ the barbarian tribes broke into the empire as conquerors. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The first serious irruptions of the German tribes into the Roman Empire began in the third century with the decay of the central power. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It affected the mixed people who had been placed in Samaria, the old capital of the kings of Israel when the ten tribes were deported to Media. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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