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Example sentences for "burnouses"

Lexicographically close words:
burnishing; burnisht; burnoose; burnous; burnouse; burns; burnt; burnyng; burong; burr
  1. A long, ragged line of desert men appeared, in burnouses and benishes, or loose floating garments, and all heavily armed.

  2. The Master saw innumerable dark faces peering down from snowy burnouses and haiks.

  3. There are burnouses and burnouses, as there are cheeses and cheeses.

  4. Gay broidered vestments and dirty rent burnouses jostle each other at every step.

  5. A few white burnouses were dotted among the serried mass of Manyema in the van, but the reserve force was Arab throughout.

  6. The Arabs in their long burnouses were distinguishable even in the murk; their dependants formed only a blacker patch.

  7. Burnouses alone bring a great profit; for these are sold to sultans, who require a credit of several months.

  8. I called them to me, gave them fine presents of burnouses and a great supper, with an apartment in which to pass the night.

  9. Acting upon their suggestion, our tents were pitched, and the six outlaws ate with us, afterwards wrapping themselves in their burnouses and sleeping through the long, blazing day.

  10. The stallions of the six mounted Arabs pawed the ground, impatient as their riders, who, on hearing the sound of the drum, yelled themselves hoarse, throwing back their burnouses and flourishing their rifles high aloft.

  11. The dense whirling cloud of sand preceded the cavalcade, and whenever a gust of wind parted it, slow-plodding camels heavily laden with merchandise, glittering arms, and flowing scarlet and white burnouses could be seen.

  12. Several men were running towards me, their white burnouses flowing behind them.

  13. You must be careful to pull the hoods of your burnouses well forward on your faces.

  14. At the end of the time specified--which had appeared an age to the impatient trio--Bacri returned to the skiffa with two coarse burnouses similar to the one worn by Mariano.

  15. Before she had time to put her foot to the ground the door was thrown wide open, and two stout Negroes dressed exactly alike in flowing white burnouses stepped out of the house to stand on either side the carriage door.

  16. The band of figures in brown burnouses marched quickly, with a sharp rustling of many slippered feet moving in unison, and golden spears of rain seemed to pierce the white turbans of the men who carried the bier.

  17. Some bones of a camel, at a distance of less than a quarter of a mile, looked like a living camel going along with several people, the white bones representing the burnouses of the men.

  18. The Tuaricks, however, stood upon the point, that when the burnouses were promised first, there was no talk of an equivalent, and I was obliged to concede.

  19. Then the lawless nomads, my companions, would wrap their burnouses closely about them, scoop out a hole in the warm sand, and there repose until the first flush of dawn.

  20. In a moment a fierce hand-to-hand struggle ensued, for horses and riders plunged upon our spears, and dozens of the desert pirates fell impaled, their burnouses dyed with blood.

  21. As I rode forward, four armed horsemen, their white burnouses flying in the wind, sped across the plain to meet me.


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