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Example sentences for "black tents"

  • The camels returned from the river, the lights began to sparkle in the circle of black tents: still Tancred slept.

  • On one side of these, between the water and the amphitheatre, was a crescent of black tents, groups of horses, and crouching camels.

  • We steered toward the several columns of smoke that rose before us, and at last we approached a large camp of black tents.

  • We saw plainly at sunset a number of black tents before us.

  • In fact, rounding the next hill, we discerned in the grassy valley below a number of black tents, two hundred yaks, and about a thousand sheep.

  • Soon after, he passed through the belt of black tents which at all seasons encircles Oued Tolga as a girdle encircles the waist of an Ouled Naïl, and so he rode into the strange city.

  • Maïeddine came out from the cluster of black tents in the yellow sand.

  • The "Black Tents," the habitations of the Bedouins, are so called because they are made of a material very sombre and dark in colour.

  • So ended Rashid's first day in the "Black Tents.

  • Govo is the last village where agriculture is pursued, so we here find ourselves on the boundary between tillage and grazing, and also between stone houses and black tents (Illust.

  • Black tents, tame yaks grazing, stone folds for sheep, wild asses, and millions of field mice recall to mind the Chang-tang.

  • I had a feeling of repose when we could see no black tents, and for the sake of peace I would readily abstain from sour milk.

  • The peculiarity of this monastery is that the brothers and sisters live in black tents, and every tent is a cell.

  • The village consists of mud-houses and a number of black tents.

  • Though these Tartars are now fused with the Thibetians, one may still observe among the black tents, a certain number of Mongol huts.

  • Already, a few cultivated fields adorn the desert; houses insensibly take the place of black tents.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    battle ships; black arrow; black band; black bear; black bread; black buck; black cattle; black chalk; black cloth; black dots; black hair; black horse; black lead; black letter; black line; black oxide; black people; black silk; black slaves; black spots; discovered land; few drops; his house; life unto; multiple proportions; short sketch