"Turkoman" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... probably for some time previous, the plain (Merj ibn Amer is its Arabic name,) had been at peace, unmolested by strangers; consequently I saw large crops of wheat there, and fields of barley waving in the breeze. These were mostly the property of a Turkoman tribe, who, like the Kenites of old, reside there in tents, neither building houses nor planting vineyards, though to some extent they sow seed. They have been long upon that ground, but move their tents about, according to the exigencies of pasture for their ...
— Byeways in Palestine • James Finn
... in modern parlance means a Turkoman, a pomade: the settled people call themselves Osmanli ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton
... a whole month; after which I went to the Hammam and coming out, opened my shop and sat selling and buying as was my wont, but saw no more of that man or that woman till, one day, there stopped before my shop a young Turkoman,[FN82] as he were the full moon; and he was a sheep-merchant and had with him a leathern bag, wherein was money, the price of sheep he had sold. He was followed by the woman, and when he stopped over against my shop, she stood by his side and ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton |
