At an early hour the streets of Pera were crowded with arabas and saddle-horses; and my own eager little chesnut was neighing out his impatience under my window before eight o’clock.
The Barbyses was alive with caïques—the air was loud with music and laughter—the greensward was crowded with arabas and idlers; and every shady tree had a colony beneath its boughs.
The low wall that skirted the road was covered with Turkish women, squatted upon their rugs and carpets, with the arabas in which they had travelled ranged along behind them.
The arabas creaked; their sodden, wooden wheels squeaked as they lurched along after us; and the khanji stood in the doorway and wondered a little; then he went back to his fire.
There were horses and arabas to hire, there were provisions to lay in, there was the escort of Zaptiehs to be procured and the goodwill of the authorities to be obtained.
You take two of the new Zaptiehs," she said, "and ride on with them to the next khan; I will wait here until the arabas turn up.
At the first glimmer announcing his arrival the tents were hauled down, the arabas loaded up, and by the time his face peeped over the line we were in our saddles, ready once more to follow him to his journey's end.
Here we decided to send the arabas on with half the escort, to await us at the next stage on the main road.
We crossed the Tigris in one of the round native boats, and landed within a few minutes' walk of the khan from where the arabas started.
Bruised and exhausted, shaken in body and nerves, we were finally safely landed at Chifte Khan, where we found our men and arabas awaiting us.
There were two covered arabas to convey the baggage, and in one of these Constantin and Hassan also rode; X and I rode horses, and had saddle-bags slung under our saddles.
Zaptichs came who were to have come at 8 to escort us on the way; but there was no sign of our own retinue, of Constantin, of Ibrahim, of our own hired horses, of the arabas and muleteers with the baggage.
It was pitch dark when we had left Baghdad in the procession of coveredarabas which conveyed pilgrims to Kerbela and merchants to Hillah.
All day on that terrible 20th of July I worked in the Bulgarian schoolhouse among the wounded men, and all day the arabas kept arriving with fresh loads, until there was absolutely no place left in which to lay the sufferers.
The train of arabas was more than a mile long, and the extent of the convoy may be gauged from the fact that there were about three hundred waggons full of ammunition, rations, drugs, and medical stores.
About half a dozen fell down from sunstroke, and we had to leave them by the side of the road on the chance that the arabas bringing up the rear would pick them up.
In one of the arabas which discharged its load at the hospital door was a wounded sergeant.
As the rough, springless arabas jolted over the cobble-stones of the Plevna street, the sufferings of the wounded men must have been excruciating.
As we were riding back to Plevna, we looked down towards the Sofia road about a mile away, and saw a long train of arabas winding along like an enormous snake towards Plevna.
Observing many empty arabas were waiting in the square, I asked a sous officer for what they were required.
It was found necessary to make room for some of the reserve ammunition which had been stowed in arabas that broke down on the march.
All night arabas continued to arrive, and soldiers who had fallen out or gone astray.
Our men were sent to the sea, three miles distant, on jolting arabas or tedious litters.
The wounded were collected and sent on board ship in arabas and litters, and the surgeons with humane barbarity were employed night and day in saving life.
The Tartar arabas and droschkies were pressed into the service.
Some of the more distinguished harems have their arabas drawn by oxen of so pale a colour as to be almost white: and their sleek skins are painted all over in patches of orange colour, which give them a most extraordinary appearance.
In rear of all were the arabas and cavalry, besides herds of cattle and sheep.
It soon becomes evident that they are a party of villagers, coming to load up their buffalo arabas by moonlight with these very shocks of wheat.
One of the arabas now approaches the shock which conceals my recumbent form, and where the pale moonbeams are coquettishly ogling the nickel-plated portions of my wheel, making it conspicuously sciutillant by their attentions.
I helped to carry some of them from the train to the rough eight-wheeled springless arabas in which they were borne to hospital.
Gaily-decorated arabas also were in waiting to convey the guests to the top of the hill on which the kiosk stands.
The wounded were sent down in arabas and litters to the ships, a painful journey of three miles.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "arabas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
