The plague had been brought from the shores of the Mediterranean into the secluded Wady Mousa, and the Fellahs had fled from its violence.
The "Fellahs of Wady Mousa" were yet to be reconciled to their plan of operations.
Sudanese are very excitable and apt to get out of hand; unlike the fellahsthey are not fond of drill, and are slow to acquire it; but their dash, pugnacious instincts and desire to close with an enemy, are valuable military qualities.
But those Egyptians--fellahs they are called--have an immense advantage over us.
Why, agents go round and take all the harvests, and leave the fellahs just enough to live on.
Anyway, I'm gamblin' he won't canter right off an' blat out to the 88 that two fellahs are on their trail.
So thefellahs we chased out o' Farewell was Blakely an' O'Leary after all.
From an ethnographic point of view, the Fellahs are descended from the primitive indigenous inhabitants, modified by admixture with the Arabs.
The Fellahs have but a feeble conception of the dignity of man and of their own value; the only answer they give to blows is a complaint.
The whole of the crop harvested by the Fellahs passed, with the exception of a modicum necessary for their absolute existence, into the granaries of the land-owners.
Such for instance are the Touaricks of the African Sahara, and the Fellahs of Egypt.
Your Highness says I have reduced these fellahs to ruin," said Skinflint Beg: "what is the best way to confound my enemies, and to show you the falsehood of their accusations that I have ruined them?
There were no single huts along the whole line of road; poor and wretched as they are, the Fellahs huddle all together for protection from the other thieves their neighbours.
Their architects could count upon the labour not only of the fellahs of the corvée, but also upon thousands of foreign prisoners.
Menzaleh, Lake, fellahs in the neighborhood of their race, ii 237.
On my way homewards I met several fellahscarrying large baskets full of dates, and stopped one of them, in order to purchase some of this celebrated fruit.
Many of the Franks also dress in the Oriental style; the Fellahs go almost naked, and their women only wear a single blue garment.
The half-naked and excitable Arabs or Fellahs are so ready with offers of service, that it is difficult to keep them off.
The Fellahs cultivate the earth, and are the ordinary peasants of the country.
These classes are, 1st, the Arab race, divided into Fellahsand Bedouins, the most numerous and least esteemed of the population.
There was a pause in the ranks of the Yeomen, then a voice lisped through the gathering gloom, "Are you fellahs British?
These last were hired peasants or fellahs who cultivated the land, and lived in abject poverty.
The fellahs were behind the walls of the village, and the horse in the plain.
The Fellahs who own Fedhans often cultivate one another's fields in company: a Turk living in a Druse village often wishes to have a Druse for his companion, to escape in some degree the vexations of the Druse Sheikh.
The taxes which all classes ofFellahs in the Haouran pay, may be classed under four heads: the Miri; the expense of feeding soldiers on the march; the tribute to the Arabs; and extraordinary contributions.
The castle is also surrounded by shrubs with long spines called Mehdab, which the Fellahs sell to the Hadj as food for the camels, and likewise two other herbs called Nassi and Muassal.
Among the Fellahs of the Haouran, the richest lives like the poorest, and displays his superior wealth only on the arrival of strangers.
The Miri is paid in kind, or in money, at the will of the Pasha; the Fellahs prefer the latter, by which they are always trifling gainers.
It is for this kind of treachery that the Fellahs in the Haouran hate the Druses.
The authority both of the Druse and Turkish village Sheikh is very limited, in consequence of the facility with which the Fellahs can transport themselves and families to another village.
These Fellahs are the remaining peasants of abandoned villages, or some poor straggling Kurds.
Damascus; they seldom wear the Keffie, and the grown up men do not go barefoot like the other Fellahs of the Haouran.
Of the hoofs rings are made, which the Fellahsof eastern Syria wear on the thumb, or tied with a thread round the arm-pit, to prevent, or to heal rheumatic complaints.
Their dress is the same as that of the Fellahsto the W.
These fellahs stores their flour too long 'ere, ma'am.
The whole crowd of porters and fellahs hurried towards the quay in a manner somewhat distressing for the limbs and clothes of the lookers-on.
Sailors of all nations, merchants, porters, and fellahs were crowding together.
Every evening the lean fellahs receive the daily wage of their labour, and take themselves off to sleep in the silent neighbourhood in their huts of mud; and the iron gates are shut behind them.
It may be indeed that the honest fellahs and Nubians of the neighbourhood, so sober a little while ago, are apt to abuse these tonics a little.
To wake thesefellahs from their strange sleep, to open their eyes at last, and to transform them by a modern education--that is the task which nowadays a select band of Egyptian patriots is desirous of attempting.
Amongst the fellahs and the Bedouins of the neighbourhood she enjoys a very bad reputation, it being her custom of nights to issue from her temple, and devour men; and none of them would willingly venture near her dwelling at this late hour.
And we meet fellahs leading back from the field towards the village on the river-bank their little donkeys, laden with sheaves of corn.
In order to enable the strangers to enjoy the beauty of the spectacle, the fellahs had lighted all their torches.
Some fellahslighted torches and preceded the two travellers, who were accompanied by Argyropoulos.
The doctor's idea struck the Greek as sound, and he made his fellahs walk about every part and corner of the hall, tapping the ground.
The fellahs suck eagerly the sweetish juice of the sugar-cane cut into short pieces, and the slices of watermelon show within the green skin their ripe, rosy, flesh, spotted with black seeds.
At the time Hassan and Ahmed Aga were some hundred yards astern of the boats, followed by their own men and by a dozen fellahs whom they had brought from the nearest village as night-watchers.
Snatching a heavy club from the hands of one of the fellahs standing by, Hassan rushed into the fray, and arrived just as one of the Bashi-Bazouks was dragging poor old Mansour off his mule by his snowy beard.
Footnote 98: In Hassan’s mouth the word Arab signified Bedouins; for he would not apply that honourable name to fellahs or the dwellers in villages.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fellahs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
