The old Turk rolled a cigarette in his knotty fingers, looking dreamily down at the child, who sat with his little legs under him silently staring at the water below, upon which no vessels, no caiques were moving.
The waters were colorless, and were licked into fretful wavelets, on which the delicate pointed caiques swayed like leaves on a tide.
Some caiques are rowed by one, others by two boatmen, with two oars or sculls each; but the most elegant of these vessels have three rowers.
As her paddles revolved, the caiques of the Turks began to dance on the waves, much to the terror of their owners.
We notice passing back and forward from Stamboul to Pera, caiques with Turkish women wearing white clothes, and staring at us out of two black holes in their yashmak.
Steam ferry-boats of the English kind were passing to and fro, and caiques flitted in and out with the dexterity and swiftness of a sea-gull.
Dion realized for the first time that Mrs. Clarke never laughed, and scarcely ever smiled.
Lit-up caiquesglided out on the bay far beneath her.
Many of these have twelve rowers, all in fancy uniforms--red fezzes and jackets embroidered with gold--while the larger caiques are profusely and expensively ornamented.
A thousand white-sailed caiques glided lightly over the waves, coming and going incessantly from shore to shore.
In front, that narrow water, a thousand caiques shooting through it like arrows, and its beautiful banks covered with high palaces and gardens in the oriental style, is the Thracian Bosphorus.
A long flat extends several miles into the sea, making the harbour completely inaccessible except to small Greek caiques built expressly for such navigation.
Guards of honour were seen in all directions as the Royal party passed in caiques up the river.
Caiques of large dimensions, gorgeously decorated with gilding and rich silken hangings, manned by numerous oarsmen, leave the marble staircase of the Dolma Bachi Palace.
About seventy or eighty caiques are always waiting there, as it is the principal landing point at Constantinople.
About forty caiques with double caidjees were waiting near the shore, while two caiques of large dimensions were filled with instrumental musicians.
A few caiques were seen here and there swiftly gliding over its calm surface, occasionally disturbed by the dipping of the sea-gulls.
It was all to no purpose; for on coming before Therapia, the safety of the ship compelled the captain to order the anchors to be let go; and as no caiques could venture out, it was impossible to land.
Shortly after our arrival we saw, through the golden rays of a dazzling sunlight, several caiques gaily dancing on the turbulent waves of the Bosphorus.
After paying our respects to Admiral Grey at the Admiralty, we hired twocaiques and repaired to the ancient quarter of Stamboul.
Numbers of smaller caiques follow in the wake of this nautical procession, which directs its course towards the Moslem city of Stamboul.
Nothing can be more ravishing than the living panorama of the Bosphorus, covered with caiques and their caidjees, darting about on all sides like water-flies.
In caiques you can go as far as the sweet waters of Europe, which are about five miles further up.
The caiquesof the Sultan are the richest boats in the world, and probably the most rapid and easy.
Nothing can exceed the delightful sensation of the motion; and the skill of the rowers in swiftly turning, and avoiding contact with the myriads of caiques is astonishing.
Caiques flit to and fro, as if shuttles weaving the sundered parts of the city together.
No more Sweet Waters, no more caiques nor stolen interviews, the music of hot kisses drowned in the splash of the listening fountain.
After an heroic resistance, the Hungarians were obliged to abandon it, with the loss of some 300 men, and retreat to the caiques which were waiting to take them off.
They then galloped away, and, having come upon the Turks, charged them vigorously and forced them to beat a hasty retreat to their caiques and return to their own side of the river.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "caiques" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
