A tribe of the nomads in question had passed through Milton but a day or two before, and the girls had been frightened by the appearance of the men of the tribe who had called at the old Corner House.
But when the party of girls drew nearer to the Gypsy camp, this particular tribe of Nomads did not appear to be "lots of fun," after all.
Where it was open prairie, there was as little reason for disturbing the nomads who wandered over it.
Nomads and seminomads who are dependent upon livestock for their livelihoods make up more than half of the population.
About 10% of the population live as nomads and some 80% of the labor force is engaged in agriculture and fishing.
Their leading files swarmed up it before the Tekkes fully recovered from the blow dealt by the hand of western science; but then the brave nomads closed in on foes with whom they could fight, and brought the storming party to a standstill.
On the other hand, behold a vast territory, well-watered, with no natural barrier between the Urals and the Pacific, sparsely inhabited by tribes of nomads having little in common.
Nomads and seminomads who are dependent upon livestock for their livelihoods make up about 50% of the population.
About 10% of the population lives as nomads and some 80% of the labor force is engaged in agriculture and fishing.
At night we drove sometimes, I remember, and often we rested under the tents of nomads who were kind to us.
Already the Nomads are here changing their habits; two small enclosures have been cultivated by an old Dulbahanta, who had studied agriculture during a pilgrimage to Meccah.
The country then becomes Abar (in Arabic Jahr,) a place of famine: the Nomads migrate to the low plains, where pasture is procurable.
That day we had travelled at least thirty- five miles without seeing the face of man: the country was parched to a cinder for want of water, and all the Nomads had migrated to the plains.
The Nomads possess large flocks of sheep, the camels, cows, and goats being chiefly found at this season on the seaward side of the hills, where forage is procurable.
They are barren in the cold season, and the Nomads migrate to the plains: when the monsoon covers them with rich pastures, the people revisit their deserted kraals.
The nomads call this chasm Purgatory, to distinguish it from the other which they name Paradise.
The paths keep on the heights, for in many of its reaches the gully affords no foothold even to the agile nomads who alone roam these solitudes.
The rain-water dropped from his matted hair on to the ragged cloak he wore; he wore felt boots but no trousers, which indeed almost all Tibetan nomadsregard as quite, superfluous.
Therefore they are dependent on the grass of the steppe, and wander like other nomads from pasture to pasture.
There lived the nomads of Eastern Turkestan and Mongolia, savage, brave, and warlike horsemen.
Formerly the Hungarian lowland was a fertile steppe, where Magyar nomads roamed about on horseback and tended their cattle and their enormous flocks of sheep.
For all he knew, the nomads might even now be in control of the major part of the town.
Between the war with the nomads and the epidemic of flu, one-third of those we had when this started are dead.
The first war shouts of the attacking nomads were heard on the plain to the south.
Toward evening, Johnson asked for two volunteers to go out as scouts to try to reach the top of Lincoln's Peak, west of town, to spot the camp of the nomads and scout their activities.
Beyond this, however, the nomads seemed in no mood to make further attack.
Mobilization The two nomads stood glaring and snarling before the drawn revolvers that pointed at them from the doorways of the room.
The defenses there were light, yet the charge of the mounted nomads had to be contained or they would drive all the way to the center of town, burning and killing as they went.
Within minutes, the nomads had occupied the houses just abandoned.
He knew thenomads would not hope to break through the barbed wire on such a rush.
Now, however, the nomadswere in a position to achieve their goal.
A few nomads were straggling after their companions at the other end of the street.
Then several of the nomads raised their arms and hurled dark, small objects toward the barrier.
All who are left of that group of nomads are going to die.
The chief worries were the grenades and incendiaries, which the nomads seemed to have in large quantity.
The Mongolian nomads were, in fact, playing a role towards the Aryanized civilizations of Europe and Persia and India that the Aryans had played to the AEgean and Semitic civilizations ten or fifteen centuries before.
Everywhere the nomads destroyed much, but everywhere they brought in a new spirit of free enquiry and moral innovation.
We have already noted the appearance of the Semitic people as wanderers and nomads in the region of Syria and Arabia, and how they conquered Sumeria and set up first the Akkadian and then the first Babylonian Empire.
Then the nomads came in from the regions of seasonal grass and seasonal migrations and superposed their own characteristics and often their own language on the primitive civilization.
And just as in the western case so ever and again these eastern nomads would achieve a sort of political unity, and become the conquerors and masters and revivers of this or that settled and civilized region.
It was these Semitic shepherds and certain more negroid people from southern Persia, the Elamites, who were the first nomads to come into close contact with the early civilizations.
The nomads were faced with the choice of settling down to the plough and becoming Chinese tax-payers or shifting in search of fresh summer pastures.
There were no more Aryan nomads in the history of Central Asia; Mongolian people had replaced them.
Before that date civilized men had been bound to a district or country, had been bound to a tradition and lived within a very limited horizon; only the nomads traded and travelled.
How does that affect two quiet nomads in Elam--especially when one of them is a Swiss and one a Brazilian?
It is, however, an important centre for trade between the cattle-breeding nomads and Peking.
The nomads who dwell round its shores are Tanguts.
Some of these nomads pass their winters in Turkish territory, and have their summer pasture-grounds in the highlands of Kurdistan.
In Turkey the sedentary Kurds pay taxes; but the nomads only pay the sheep tax, which is collected as they cross the Tigris on their way to their summer pastures.
It is also likely that others who still retained their religion did not return, and are the ancestors of certain Hebrew nomads still wandering in the desert.
It was a startling apparition to burst upon these nomads in their remote retreat—horsemen of a type they had never seen before, and an armed soldier.
These nomads spoke nothing but Turkish, and hoped to find a warm welcome from their old tribesmen on the plain of Sharon.
Nomads and semi-nomads, who are dependent upon livestock for their livelihood, make up a large portion of the population.
The Mohamadani nomads occupy the central mountain region, to the south of which lie the Mashkel and Kharan deserts, inhabited by a people of quite different origin, who possess something approaching to historical records.
Hence we may assume that the incursions and raids of the nomads of the steppes began with the increase of the flocks and the prosperity of agriculture in the valleys of Merv, Bactria, and Sogdiana.
There was also the continual fear of the nomads who dwelt on the steppes to the north, who made attacks on the fruitful slopes and valleys.
If Western Iran was protected in the north by the Alps of Aderbeijan and the Caspian Sea against attacks from that quarter, Eastern Iran lay open to the nomads of the steppes, and had nothing but arms to defend its cultivated lands.
Be this as it may, for further excavations are needed before the question can be determined, there is no doubt that these nomadsdisappeared from the steppe for a time and were found in the Tripolje region.
That these people were nomads seems clear from the little evidence we possess and from the poverty of their tombs and the absence of dwelling sites.
A few prehistoric marsupials wandered over its territory and were hunted by poor nomads of men, without art or architecture, condemned by the conditions of their life to step aside from the great onward current of human evolution.
Pastoral nomads can give political union to civilized peoples; they can assimilate and spread ready-made elements of civilization, but to originate or develop them they are powerless.
Among pastoral nomads war is the rule; the tribe, a mobilized nation, is always on a war footing with its neighbors.
The bazaars of Samarkand and Tashkent exist largely for the scattered nomads of Turkestan.
Similarly, semi-independent military communities for centuries made a continuous line of barriers against the raids of the steppe nomads along the southern and southeastern frontiers of Russia, from the Dnieper to the Ural rivers.
When natural increase finds no vent in emigration and dispersal, marriage among nomads becomes less fruitful.
This is true of the pastoral nomads who in different epochs have inundated Europe, northern Africa and the peripheral lands of Asia, and of the great colonial nations who in a few decades have brought continents under their dominion.
Huc and Gabin testify to the deeper religious feeling of the Buddhist nomads of the Central Asia plateaus, as compared with the lowland Chinese.
Might not an actual conquest be effected, and the half-starved nomads of Marmarica and the Cyrenaica become the lords and masters of the rich plain, so long coveted, which adjoined upon their eastern frontier?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nomads" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
