Some of the yourts are better furnished than others, those for example belonging to the khans or princes.
The result of this practice in dwellings so infested with vermin as the Mongol yourts may be left to the imagination.
Some of them dwell in houses, while others adhere to yourts of the same form and material as those of the Bouriats and Mongols.
Major Abasa told me that when the cold was 40° below zero he had found the Koriaks in their yourts with a temperature 75° above.
Outside the village were three or four conical yourts belonging to the aboriginals.
There is also a hood fitted to it, made of the same materials as the rest of the dress; but in yourts the heads of the children are almost always bare, and the hood hangs therefore upon their shoulders.
It has only three yourts and twelve balagans, at the foot of which the river Karaga passes.
It contains two yourts and six balagans, and is situated upon a small river of the same name, which was entirely frozen, as was also one that we had just passed.
It was really a labour, and a most fatiguing one, if we consider that in these yourts it was not possible to write, without lying upon the ground; we were also suffocated with smoke, and the ink froze by our side.
Some of the yourts which I saw were floored with planks; but this is regarded as a luxury, and the generality have no other floor than the ground.
These yourtsare larger than those of the northern Kamtschadales, but are distributed nearly in the same manner.
In the dusk of the evening we arrived at a hamlet situated upon the border of the sea, consisting of two yourts and three balagans, in a very wretched condition, and totally deserted.
Thoughtless of the future, without regret for the past, they come not out of their yourts till the most urgent necessity compels them.
The winter yourts are round, and built upon the ground like the summer ones.
They had quitted it two days before, and had taken possession of the ten yourts that make up the village, and in which they reside as long as the warm weather lasts.
First one returned, then two, then three; the force of example, and a kind of emulation operated upon others, and when I was at Ingiga there were no less than eleven yourts in the neighbourhood of that town.
Inclining towards the top, they support a roof, the slope of which is very inconsiderable: in some yourts the roof is supported by posts.
The yourts are constructed like those of the fixed Koriacs, with this difference, that they are not subterraneous, and that the entrance is by a door upon a level with the ground.
The yourts in question are, properly speaking, mere tents in the form of huts placed on the surface of the ground.
Their yourts are not so large, and are covered with the bark of the birch tree; there is no other difference.
I perceived here and there some Yakout yourts at a considerable distance from each other: seldom are any number of them seen together.
These yourts are not formed underground, like those of the Kamtschadales and the majority of the fixed Koriacs; they are also longer and of a superior construction.
Three wersts farther on I saw two yourts and six balagans, which are occupied only in summer.
Yourts are few and far between, and few cattle are to be seen; there is barely grass enough to support sheep and camels.
They were harvesting this as we passed, carting it to the yourts in a rough sort of wooden cart, and stacking it up.
Vast flocks and herds were seen in all directions, and yourts in good number, though at great distances from each other.
Ulan-Khada is in a hollow surrounded by high ground, and three yourtswere seen from our camp.
About two o'clock we halted at Kutul-usu, where we were agreeably surprised to find no less than six yourts near our encampment, which was remarkable considering the scarcity of grass.
We pushed on till 11 o'clock, and encamped at Mingan, where there were no yourts actually in sight, but several within a few miles.
Visits were paid and received between us and the Mongols who lived in the two yourts near us, and our lama fraternised with them, and got the women to bring us argols and water.
The pass opens out a fine valley on the north, which was alive with men and beasts moving about; yourtspacked up and laid on the backs of cows, camels, &c.
The country was so desert that there was no population, and only two yourts were near us.
After a moment's hesitation two of the natives rushed back to their yourts for their bows, while the third, who happened to have his close at hand, fitted an arrow and discharged it hastily.
Across the river they made out several of the yourts or summer tents of the Ostjaks, but it was not until the fourth day that they came upon a group of seven or eight of these tents on the river bank.
The yourts must be thick along the coasts here, Luka; they must have gathered up all those canoes from at least half a dozen camps.
They followed it down for half a mile, and then at a sudden turn they saw the sea in front of them, a cluster of ten Samoyede yourts and a herd of reindeer feeding on the slope behind them.
He passed three of the yourts and then turned off.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yourts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
