Late the next afternoon, a stranger called from without the compound gate, and the guard answered, and it was breathlessly announced by a runner boy that a caravan was waiting to enter.
Preparations for the caravanfeast had already begun.
The man from the caravan tried to grin and nod and bow his agonized thanks all at the same time while moving respectfully backwards to go and do as instructed.
The other members of the caravan gathered close around him to escort him carefully away.
He took her across the big open compound near to the place where the long caravan of heavily laden beasts stood chewing their cuds along one high stone wall, just inside the front gates of the sprawling compound.
He had checked them out when they had left earlier of their own accord, taking two of the traveling harlots from the caravan with them as playthings.
Si'Wren watched as one of the caravantravelers shyly approached the Camel Master.
In a seemingly endless procession, the caravan paraded with stately dignity through the front gates in a grand display of riches and home-spun glory.
You know that blurt, blurt, thump, thump, dissolute sort of caravan tune.
Of the whole caravan of seven mules that had trotted so bravely out, there was left now but one sorely burdened ass.
Late that afternoon, John Fremont Carson halted his mule on the eyebrow of a cliff and the caravancrowded together at imminent risk of one or more going overside.
Down the length of it, the fog marched like an endless caravan of ghostly, silent, gray mules.
For a caravan of asses, they succeeded in bartering their horses with the arrieros, or muleteers, going down.
However, the wagons of your caravan that just came up to-day will surely have some word of them.
In 1788, with a caravan of emigrants, Jackson crossed the Alleghenies to Nashville, Tennessee, then an outpost of settlement still exposed to the incursions of Indians.
Finally the planter found himself obliged to part with some of his slaves, in response to the demand from the new cotton-fields; or to migrate himself, with his caravan of Negroes, to open a new home in the Gulf region.
About five miles outside Kontogora our caravan was stopped by some horsemen who came galloping towards us and drew up across our path.
I found that during the morning a travelling caravan had taken a pitch just outside my hedge; and its owner turned out to be an Oxford man, who, with his wife, was leading a vagabond life about the shires.
As we stood watching them the caravan halted and one of the horsemen came prancing up to us with a great flourishing of his spear.
Still, there was just the chance, as we soon found out when the head of the caravan reached the gate.
Finally, the caravan was allowed to move on under the gate into the town.
There's a chance that will do till we can run down a caravan along the Red Sea, carrying petrol to Suakin or Port Sudan.
Two days and one night of steady flying over the ocean of sand, with but an occasional oasis or caravan to break the appalling wastes of emptiness, brought Nissr to the Valley of the Nile.
The work of stripping the caravan immediately commenced.
A moving line of dust showed where a distant caravan was plodding eastward over the sparkling crystals of an ancient salt sea-bottom.
The four survivors, in addition to burying all the bodies, had buried the copper bars the caravan had been freighting to Jannati Shahr.
Side by side with Arnold Lamont and Gleazen, emptying my pistol into the crowd, I saw out of the corner of my eye that the blacks were cutting their way into the heart of the caravan for slaves and booty.
But at the sight of a rich caravan and loose gold, the blacks, in the twinkling of an eye, were fighting among themselves.
That the caravan kept better watch than their besiegers, we learned first of all; for even as we leaped the barricade and came racing down the road, a gun went off in our faces and a cry of warning called the defenders from their sleep.
Beyond the niggers will be the caravan surely, and beyond the caravan there'll be more niggers.
FN#2] The number of pilgrims in this Caravan is still grossly exaggerated.
FN#16] Most probably, in the Barr al-Manakhah, where the Damascus caravan still pitches tents.
A discharge of three guns denotes the station, and when the Caravan moves by night a single cannon sounds three or four halts at irregular intervals.
This melancholy Jacques had joined ourcaravan at Al-Hamra, on the [p.
The ancient Caravanfrom Maskat to Al-Madinah, 29, n.
Suddenly arose the rumour that there would be no Tayyarah,[FN#l] and that all pilgrims must proceed with the Damascus Caravan or await the Rakb.
The appearance of the Caravan was most striking, as it threaded its slow way over the smooth surface of the Khabt (low plain).
FN#20] It is impossible to distinguish from this description the route taken by the Damascus Caravan in A.
THE Damascus Caravan was to set out on the 27th Zu’l Ka’adah (1st September).
The extent of this Caravanhas been enormously exaggerated in Europe.
They are carried in the front, and set up in the place where the Caravan is to pitch, before that comes up, at some distance from one another.
I thought with amusement of the quaint life Mr. Mifflin had led in his "caravan of culture.
And that's what this caravan of culture aspires to.
I'm here to sell this caravan of culture, and by the bones of Swinburne I think your brother's the man to buy it.
I have bought his caravan and am taking a holiday, selling books.
Nevertheless, we had no reason to be dull or impatient, as there was defiling before us the everlastingcaravan of donkeys laden with coffins for the daily consumption of the French hospital at Pera.
The Rokeby Castle and its vicinity had the appearance of a travelling caravan of gipsies reposing; children in rags escaped from the group to solicit alms; a few halfpence contented them.
The evening's entertainment presently closed, and we joined the innumerable caravan of half-drowned strangers, and waded home again.
We watered the caravan at the cold stream which rushes down a trough near the end of the village, and soon afterward left the haunts of civilization behind us.
By nightfall the caravan was on the other side and the ladders were taken up.
He took his hot toast and coffee, and then about half past three his caravan of ten men filed away from the Riffel Hotel, and began the steep climb.
About half past five o'clock we arrived at a bridge which spans the Visp, and after throwing over a detachment to see if it was safe, the caravan crossed without accident.
I formed the caravanin marching order, presently, and after riding down the line to see that it was properly roped together, gave the command to proceed.
I took three-quarters of a mile of rope and fastened one end of it around the waist of a guide, and told him to go find the road, while the caravan waited.
When Chief Stevenson came downstairs and told you that the route had been changed, where did he tell you that the caravan would turn off Commerce Street?
No; but he felt like--Fritz said if anyone tried to take our prisoner we should be in a position to be able to cut out of the caravan or to take off or do whatever was necessary to protect our prisoner.
The caravan of the mother of the last of the Abassides numbered one hundred and twenty thousand camels.
Even so late as sixty years since, the pilgrim-caravan from Cairo was six hours in passing one who saw the procession.
The missive ran as follows: "Will you not stay your caravan an hour or two, and with your companions, give me the pleasure of your company this evening at my house by the pine trees?
The caravan road was lost and scattered in the sandy country, and we had been following an Indian trail up the river.
No game made its appearance-- not even a buffalo or a stray antelope; and nothing occurred to break the monotony until about 5 o'clock, when the caravan made a sudden halt.
A short time enabled him to discover that the Indian war-party of twenty-seven consisted of six elk, who had been gazing curiously at ourcaravan as it passed by, and were now scampering off at full speed.
Looking around, I saw only one of the hunters, nearly out of sight, and the long, dark line of our caravan crawling along, three or four miles distant.
It was, in fact, that las Vegas de Santa Clara, which had been so long presented to us as the terminating point of the desert, and where the annual caravan from California to New Mexico halted and recruited for some weeks.
Early in the morning we left it, having first written a brief account of what had happened, and put it in the cleft of a pole planted at the spring, that the approaching caravan might learn the fate of their friends.
Turning a corner, they came against a caravan of loaded camels in a most sudden and startling manner.
They continued on the trail of the caravan until they reached the new camping ground.
The caravan was now in motion, and Weeko started all her ponies after the leader, while she adjusted the mule's clumsy burden of kettles and other household gear.
The morning dawn illuminated the red clouds, the swan rose strengthened, and flew towards the rising sun, towards the bluish coast whither the caravanhad gone; but he flew alone, with a longing in his breast.
And the caravan listened well pleased to the song of the nightingale, which seemed to promise good fortune.
The whole caravan thought of the same thing; therefore, the rising dawn seemed to them a message from the sun, of fortune that was to gleam brightly upon them.
A poor corpse is carried out of the town-gate, and the funeral procession causes the caravanto halt.
I saw a caravan of emigrant peasant families who were bound to Hamburgh, there to take ship for America, where fancied prosperity would bloom for them.
I The two-vehicle caravan emerged from the sandy wastes of the erg and approached the small encampment of Taitoq Tuareg which consisted of seven goat leather tents.
Before the choir of Indian voices intoned the opening prayer of the dedication service the packs of the O'Donoju caravan yielded precious things.
He drove the goats back a little way to a place where it was possible to ford the stream, and in, a little while the whole caravan stood dripping on the farther bank.
Bello was at that moment barking down a hollow log in the hope of catching a hare, but he obediently rounded up the goats when Seppi called him, and the little caravan began to move.
The next day a caravan came to a booth protecting two water-bottles sunk in the sand.
Ten miles away ran the track of the caravan where his herdsmen had found a traveler dead from the fierce heat of the desert.
At all of the tambos where the cartmen stop marimbas are kept, and in every caravan are those who can handle them skilfully.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "caravan" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
