As he was chief of the Yadavas this Krishna must stand for the actual or mythical personality of some leader of the immigrant nomad tribes.
It has been suggested in the article on Rajput that the Yadava and other lunar clans of Rajputs may be the representatives of the Sakas and other nomad tribes who invaded India shortly before and after the Christian era.
As if detecting his purpose, the nomad islands eluded him.
The mass of vegetation, wrenched from its bed, trailed along in the water as the nomad island whirled and danced on the angry waves.
The bigot may have thought only of the years of wandering, when, in nomad tents, the chosen race escaped from their oppressors.
They did not speak of this nomad life as of a state of privation.
In short, out of the driftwood and wreckage of their primitive social system the Russians framed a bulwark against the swirling currents of the nomad world outside.
The Tartars were fain to submit to the Czar, or to flee to the nomad tribes of Central Asia or Northern China.
They were a nomad people, living, perhaps, partly by hunting, but mainly by herding cattle on the grassy steppes, and the parklands which fringed them on the north.
This again is not quite a satisfactory term, and I have suggested in its place steppe-folk or nomad steppe-folk.
North of this, too, is a belt of parkland, opening on to the steppe, where nomad herdsmen could drive their cattle when the grass of the steppe became burnt up.
In contradistinction to views previously advanced, he believes that the original Wiros were settled agriculturists and not nomad herdsmen.
For this reason some writers have called them red skeleton men or nomad red men.
We have found reason for believing that in neolithic days the Russian steppe east of the Dnieper was inhabited by a nomad steppe-folk, who had domesticated horses and cattle, and perhaps sheep.
The argument from the words for grain seems indecisive, and the balance of the evidence cited by Schrader seems in favour of a nomad existence.
The difference between the two views seems to depend upon whether the Wiros were nomad or settled, and I have already given reasons for believing them to have been nomads.
The state of civilisation and the area of distribution of thosenomad steppe-folk exactly corresponds with the requirements of the early Wiros as postulated by Schrader, though it differs in some respects from those demanded by Giles.
Such crops of barley I have myself seen grown by nomad Bedawin in the clay deserts behind Alexandria.
Moreover it is not an unknown thing for nomad people to grow scratch crops of grain.
He contended that the original undivided Wiros were not a small clan, but must have been a numerous, nomad pastoral people, inhabiting an extensive steppe region.
She came back, as she had done the first time, at the end of about three weeks, in rags, covered with dust, and satiated with her Nomad life of sand and liberty.
When his companions expressed their astonishment at his fears, he replied: “The passion for milk will lead you to abandon the centres of reunion and to return to nomad existence.
But before the dawn of the Mohammadan era the ḥîrah had begun to change its character, and the nomad encampment to develop into the standing camp and even into the city.
As she came nearer to the spot where Geoffrey was smoking, a ragged nomadsprang from the hedge and demanded alms.
There was a scuffle and a plunge, a rapid exit of the nomad and, hat in hand, Geoffrey was receiving the thanks of a beautiful woman, who was pleased to assure him that he was her preserver.
These were a race, perhaps allied to the Arabians, who laid aside their nomad habits, and founded a kingdom, whose people grew rich by the caravan trade.
The nomad looked at Ken with a strange fury in his eyes.
In moments the warehouse was bathed on all sides in seething flame, and the nomad column spread beyond it, unaware of the mortal damage they had done.
What chance have we got even if we kill every nomad in the valley?
Johnson had mounted his best men, using the capturednomad horses as well as the town's own.
An attack had been promised if the nomad emissaries did not return.
He ran until he caught sight of the first nomad he had seen since the events in the Mayor's Council chamber.
However, one nomad stopped and swung cautiously under the very windows of the burning house next door.
Black Victory The spearhead of the nomad infantry attack broke through between two lightly manned guard posts whose garrisons fled in retreat with a few ineffective shots.
The breeding season over, they become nomad in their habits.
Here the vigorous nature of the nomad found a rich soil to support its growth and development.
This first great influx of Semitic nomad tribes left colonists behind them in that region, who afterwards as the Amurru, or Western Semites, pressed on in their turn into Babylonia and established the earliest independent dynasty in Babylon.
While nomad tribes in their search for fresh pasturage might drift over the broad steppes to the north and west of Turkestan, the agricultural peoples on its southern border would be forced to turn south of the Caspian.
After centuries of independent development fresh vigour was introduced by the nomad Semitic races who settled in the north, but in the hands of the later Semites the Sumerian ideals were not maintained.
The condition of the Indian tribes in the North-West, in British Columbia, and in the territories of the United States, abundantly illustrates the effect of a multiplicity of languages among nomad savages.
The mode of nursing the Indian papoose, by bandaging it on a cradle-board, is specially adapted to the vicissitudes of a nomad forest life.
But the nomad Indians must be classed wholly apart from the settlers on the Grand river reserves.
This may illustrate the general character of a people partaking of the nomad habits of the Indian, and yet possessed of a considerable amount of movable property and real estate.
The employment, indeed, of the cradle-board among prehistoric races of Northern Europe, and their nomad life of which it is so characteristic a feature, may now be considered as generally recognised.
The diversity of food, for example, of the Peruvians and of the American Indian hunter tribes was little less than that which distinguishes the Eskimo from the Hindoo, or the nomad Tartar from the Chinese.
Now we are dispersed throughout the Orient, and pay no tithes, yet we hold sacred our peaceful attitude toward strangers, our education as scribes, our nomad life and our abhorrence to strong drink.
On the side of Burmah he found his borders disturbed by nomad and predatory tribes not less than in the region of Gobi.
This was the first occasion on which a Chinese ruler formally took over the task of governing the nomad tribes and of treating their chiefs as his lieutenants.
The first Chinese are supposed to have been a nomad tribe in the province of Shensi, which lies in the northwest of China, and among them at last appeared a ruler, Fohi, whose name at least has been preserved.
The doubt has been already expressed whether the Mongols would ever have risen to higher rank than that of a nomad tribe but for the appearance of Genghis.
The mollah is a grave, quiet, and most respectable-looking man, more like a thriving merchant than a nomad chief, though he does carry arms.
At length a nomad died on the lake shore, and a monk from Lunkar-gompa was summoned to his tent to read the prayers for the dead.
The wind blew strongly, and the Tibetans said that the waves on Tso-mavang were as high and dark as nomad tents.
The land round the nomad tents of Kyam is flat and open.
Nomad tents are as rare as on the preceding days, for people come here only in summer.
Two men and a woman came out of a nomad encampment to the track we followed, and asked if we had seen the European who was said to be travelling about Bongba.
Here were several nomad tents, and seven tents inhabited by pilgrims from Bongba stood on a rise.
We encamped in sight of the Tarok-tso, on a level plain about 16 feet above the surface of the lake, and with two nomad tents as our nearest neighbours.
After he had gone, Kamba Tsenam informed me that some time ago the man had killed a nomad in Rukyok, and now was come to treat about the compensation for the murder.
Kamba Tsenam owned thirty-five horses, which were grazing beyond Gebuk-la, and if the rich nomad returned in the evening we should certainly be able to buy some from him.
When the caravan moves over the rounded hills it is like a nomad tribe on the march.
Almost like a thief in the night, expecting to be discovered every moment, I had stolen past the black nomad dwelling.
This potentate comes to Nagrong in late summer and takes up his abode in the stone house, while a hundred nomad tents are set up around and a fair is held.
We follow a clearly marked nomad path, leading up to the small pass Tso-niti-kargang on the ridge which forms a watershed between the Chema-yundung and the Kubi-tsangpo.
Geographical conditions and a hard struggle against nature fixed the character of this "aridian" culture, and determined its migrations; the onslaughts of nomad Indians determined the sedentary civilization of the cliff dwellers.
For more than three centuries after the appearance of the Seljuks, Armenia was traversed by a long succession of nomad tribes whose one aim was to secure good pasturage for their flocks on their way to the richer lands of Asia Minor.
Of all these nomad groups the Punans are the most numerous and we have seen more of them than of any others.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nomad" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
