The beggars were crouching there as usual in the blazing sunlight, making deep-blue shadows under their broad hats and voluminous turbans and tattered cloaks.
Turbans were more numerous than any other head-dress, and the front rows of the throng squatted on the dirty floor watching unmoved the scene that was being enacted before them.
It seems to me, as if I saw already the blood between your turbans and your shoulders.
Turkish Anatolian peasants, with baggy trousers, wide blue belts and thin turbans over their fez, fraternize with Tartars and Kirghiz of Turkestan.
So are the cavalry, for they charged at Meanee and Hyderabad, where their scarletturbans were seen sweeping through the smoke--by their colour seeming to announce the bloody work they were at.
The variety of form noticeable in the display of turbanswas remarkable.
Indeed, they are the most gaily dressed people I have ever seen, and their brown skins set off the vivid yellows and greens and reds and magentas and purples of which their trousers and jackets and turbans and handkerchiefs are made.
The turbans might be old Aunt Dinah's of the South.
The Secretary inspected the troops, and we saw for the first time the Moro constabulary, wearing turbans and sashes, but with bare legs; nevertheless, they looked very dashing.
In solemn procession, their green turbans on their heads, and enveloped in their long flowing caftans, with their costly ermine collars, the entire body of sheiks repaired on foot to the palace.
In the turbans of one of these figures there are pearls as large as a woman's thumb, and emeralds and rubies as large as eggs, and ropes of diamonds.
Though turbans now pollute Sophia's shrine, And Greece her very altars eyes in vain: (Alas!
Empress of their reign, Though turbans now pollute Sophia's shrine.
In order to travel safely through the city, Sun decided that they should all put on turbansand clothing resembling that of the citizens.
Liu Pei enrolled the peasants; Chang Fei procured for them horses and arms; and then they set out to make war on the Yellow Turbans (Huang Chin Tsei).
Fearing that in their sleep their turbans would fall off, and their shaven heads be revealed, Sun arranged that they should sleep in a cupboard, which he asked the landlady to lock.
Perceiving from the innkeeper's warning that thieving was common, Sun stole some clothing and turbans for his Master and comrades.
Towards morning the five natives, with the skewers hidden away in their loincloths, and their turbans twisted in Mahratta fashion, stole out from the casemate.
They were next wrapped in dark blue clothes, in peasant fashion, and turbans wound round their heads.
This is significant of their territorial province, styles of turbans varying with the locality.
Men were in their many-hued turbans of various styles, with no clothing to the waist and a limited supply below.
Then the Sultan and his son and all the people in his house rushed out, with their turbans in their hands, to see what was the matter and help put out the flames.
So they took off their turbans and began to wash, when suddenly there was a shout from outside: "The Sultan's house is on fire.
It was a very pretty sight to-day, from the crowds of people mixed up with the spring of the waters; and the Mahrattas wear such beautiful scarlet turbans covered with gold or silver cords, that they showed it off well.
He and his sons and followers were rather picturesque, with their enormous coarse turbans and cloth gaberdines, and great jack-boots, amongst all those jewelled Sikhs.
They stick it into their turbans by a gold hook, and the tassel hangs over one ear.
Men threw the gold from their turbans about my feet when I had danced to them .
Before the tents of the Padishah were to be seen the sacred guard of infantry, with turbans so lofty that the men wearing them seemed giants, They were armed with javelins fixed on long staffs, and short crooked swords.
The boys were already holding on tight, each in one of the funny little swings; and away they went, the long ends of their turbans flying behind them, until they were too dizzy to see.
On one side the snowy turbans and dark robes of half a dozen Ulemas formed a striking contrast to the green shawls bound about the brows of a group of Hadjïs, and their ample pelisses of crimson or maroon, lined and overlaid with fur.
They wore Turkish dress and turbans too, all but their commanding officer, a big bearded artillery captain, who wore a burnous and Arab pistols over his uniform.
An Arab dhow, with her high and pointed stern, the pavilion upon it gaily painted—her decks crowded with men clad in the loose robes and heavy turbansof Arabia, and her huge square sail set to catch the breeze—sailed near them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "turbans" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
