How To Use Cossack In A Sentence
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He's a Cossack, who rose to command a hussar regiment in the army, won the Tsar's special favour, and retired here, away from his own tribal land.
The Sky Writer
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We diversified the reading curriculum to make it more great-booksy - specifically, the great works of Cossack literature.
Undefined
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But Solomon sat tight in his rain barrel, and after the cossacks had left empty-handed, he made his escape.
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Nor yet the Austrian cross-breeds who are to be beheld behind the _gulasch_ in the Rue d'Hauteville, nor the semi-Milanese who sibilate the _minestrone_ at Aldegani's in the Passage des Panoramas, nor the Frenchified Spaniards and Portuguese who gobble the _guisillo madrileño_ at Don José's in the Rue Helder, nor the half-French Cossacks amid the _potrokha_ in the Restaurant Cubat, nor the Orientals with the waxed moustachios and girlish waists who may be observed at moontide dawdling over their _café à la Turque_ at Madame
Europe After 8:15
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It's a bit too - "Her words broke off as she saw Alex standing by the sink in his Cossack costume.
KISS AN ANGEL
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The original gauchos were an equestrian ethnic group similar to North American cowboys and Ukrainian Cossacks.
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On their side, the Cossacks rendered honors to the waywodes of Ivan as well as to all the strelitz.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10
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Eventually Peter recognized that in order to consolidate and modernize Russia's political and economic power it was necessary to do away with the hetmanate and Ukrainian and Cossack aspirations to autonomy.
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He was wearing a kalpak -- the head-gear of the cossack, which would make a high priest look outlawed, and a shaggy goat-skin coat that had seen more than one campaign.
The Eye of Zeitoon
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They rode up to the thirty-fifth floor, rising past the bank offices on the lower floors to the executive offices of Cossack Holdings.
MURDER SONG
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“How dare you feed a fine Russian chicken such lowly food!” says the Cossack, and hits the Jew with a stick.
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At first there were only two regiments of lancers—both of Polish origin—and these should properly be termed chevaux legers until 1809, for only in that year was the lance added to their equipment although its value as a weapon had been appreciated some time before after contact with the Cossacks.
THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON
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Two hundred years ago King Karl XII of Sweden fought together with the Cossack hetman Ivan Mazepa for the independence of Ukraine from Russia.
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The collection contains studies by government officials, scholars, and Cossack movement leaders (atamans).
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This report, scrawled on thin rice paper, told of a cavalry encounter at Ping Yang after a detachment of Cossacks on reconnaissance had crossed the Yalu and struck 200 miles deep into Korea.
JACK LONDON'S WAR
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Khmelnytsky's victory over Poland led to a Cossack "state," the hetmanate.
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Then I woke up, ate a bowl of Rice Krispies, and walked to school — the Howard T. Herber Middle School — where a sixth-grade pogromist named Patrick Harrington and his Cossack associates pitched pennies at me in a game sometimes known as “Bend the Jew,” which ended, inevitably, with me being jumped for refusing to pick up the aforementioned pennies, and also for killing Jesus.
Hollywood’s Jewish Avenger
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He had infantry, cavalry, arquebusiers, Cossacks and many Tartars, with heavy artillery, which was shipped down the Volga.
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He got up and stood very politely in front of Gloria Vanderman, removing his cossack kalpak for the first time and holding it with
The Eye of Zeitoon
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Skating to classic Russian balalaika music when I was thirteen, I had demanded a full Cossack costume with big, billowing pants, boots, and a little vest.
Welcome to My World
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He was as much at home in the saddle as an English fox-hunter or a Don Cossack, and the only wheeled vehicles in his spacious carriage-house were the heavy family coach, and the light sulky in which his summer trips were made between the pineland and the plantation.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876
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In fact, the Cossack regards the Russian peasant as a foreign, outlandish, despicable creature.
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Ney -- the bravest of the brave -- left alone in Russia at the last with seven hundred foreign recruits, men picked from here and there, called in from the highways and hedges to share the glory of the only Marshal who came back from Moscow with a name untarnished -- Ney and Girard, musket in hand, were the last to cross the bridge, shouting defiance at their Cossack foes, who, when they had hounded the last of the French across the frontier, flung themselves down on the bloodstained snow to rest.
Barlasch of the Guard
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They walked as lightly as gymnasts, under a clear sky, through the fields, guided by the lights in the farmhouses, and at nine o'clock, having passed the frontier, they stumbled upon a post of Cossacks ambuscaded behind a hedge!
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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His first Adventure story was called "Khlit," after its 17th-century protagonist, a saber-wielding Cossack who wore an astrakhan hat and bright red breeches.
Shepherding a Lamb's Lost Legacy
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Why would the Diet forbid Jan Kazimierz to provide military aid to Vyhovs'kyi and what is meant by the statement that the Cossack hetman was ‘an elected king’?
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To understand a lot of the legalese that we heard taking place over the last several minutes, we have our legal analyst Roger Cossack to kind of dissect it and explain to us what was taking place.
CNN Transcript - Special Event: Robert Downey, Jr. Pleads Not Guilty on Drug Charges - December 27, 2000
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Cossacks, who immediately slaid him, and divided his body between them.
The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of
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Each Cossack force had its own ataman and there was an ataman of all Cossack forces who, from 1827, was the heir to the imperial throne.
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Meanwhile the foreign captain had taken the lunt in his own hand to fire the largest cannon, such a cannon as none of the Cossacks had ever beheld before.
Taras Bulba
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At the very end of the last story he demonstrates a bit of initiative and élan in subduing a homicidal Cossack; but in the wider war to repress the natives of the Caucasus he does mainly as he is told.
A Doomed Young Man
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The Russians gradually colonized the north, establishing Cossack settlements in the lowlands.
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Pussywillows by Pissarro hang come hither in furry Cossacks 'caps on enchanting Russian hussies, and lilies, those well-favored
Painters' Palette (Impressionists of Spring)
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The Russian word for Cossack is Kazak Kozak is acceptable; a Kazakh is a citizen of Kazakhstan, which I'm afraid is now spelled Kazakstan.
Languagehat.com: IDIOCENTRISM.
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Mohammed Reza Pahlavi had worshiped his father, the resolute and physically towering commander of the Persian Cossack brigade who had seized power and crowned himself Shah in the 1920s.
The Prize
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It's one of ten companies that are subsidiaries of Cossack Holdings.
MURDER SONG
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Stuck with his family in a purlieu of Rome densely populated by other displaced Jews, he immerses himself in his memories, which include seeing his father murdered by Cossacks and, just as hauntingly, informing on his cousin for Zionist activity.
Lost in Transit
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Russia formed by the Volga basin in 1775 was described as "an asylum for malcontents and vagabonds of all kinds, ruined nobles, disfrocked monks, military deserters, fugitive serfs, highwaymen, and Volga pirates" -- disorderly elements which contributed greatly to the insurrection led by the Ural Cossacks in that year. [
Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography
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His army razed forty-eight Cossack settlements and killed 7,000 people; but later, fearing Ottoman expansionism, Peter allowed a revival — on the condition that Cossacks accept an ataman, or chieftain, appointed by the czar to rule the oblast.
Russia's Holy Warriors
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Allies obtained a final victory, that Bonaparte was overtaken by a party of Sachen's Cossacks, who immediately slaid him, and divided his body between them; General Platoff saved Paris from being reduced to ashes, the Allied Sovereigns are there, and the White Cockade is universal, an immediate Peace is certain.
The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of
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In the old photos the cemetery hill is bare, but now it is wooded over, and the Hussars, Cossacks, infantrymen, grenadiers and all the rest are lying in the shade of the trees.
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But these ragged clothes and these weapons are belted and worn with a certain air and matched in a certain manner, neither of which can be acquired by everybody and which at once strike the eye of a Cossack or a hillsman.
The Cossacks
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But the Swedes and Cossacks lost, and Peter destroyed the hetman's capital and the hetmanate itself.
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With the whole power of the government at its back, and with a Constitution so amended as to extend the amplest protection to the new-made citizen, it left him to the inhuman mercy of men whose uncurbed passions, whose deeds of lawlessness and defiance, pale into virtues the ferocity of Cossack warfare.
Black and White
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I had no thermals, but cut a dash with pyjama bottoms under my jeans and a borrowed Cossack hat.
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Hundreds of wooden luggers once plied the northern coast from Cossack to Cairns.
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A Cossack is inclined to hate less the dzhigit hillsman who maybe has killed his brother, than the soldier quartered on him to defend his village, but who has defiled his hut with tobacco-smoke.
The Cossacks
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On the Saturday Malloy and Julie had picnicked behind a screen of trees on a hill a mile from Cossack Lodge stud.
MURDER SONG
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From the outset, the Japanese cultivated Semenoff and like-minded Cossacks, and lavish gifts and money found their way to Chita and to strongholds of other atamans in eastern Siberia.
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The statuette represented a woman bound tightly, on whom two Cossacks were inflicting the knout; the socle bore the inscription, "Polonia vincta et flagellata.
Samuel Brohl and Company
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He had been a veterinary surgeon in a Cossack regiment, and consequently his services were much in request with the people at Orsk. He informed me that land could be bought on these flats for a rouble and a half a _desyatin_ (2,700 acres); that a cow cost £3 2s. 6d.; a fat sheep, two years old, 12s. 6d.
Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers
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Lands imperial armies had conquered, cossacks homesteaded, Bolshevik engineers industrialized, Red Army troops defended—all signed away, with a few strokes of a borrowed pen.
The Return
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A spare mount had been brought and Victor was ordered, under the sharp blade of a Cossack sword, to mount.
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The story here, "The Mighty Manslayer" 1918, begins: "Chakar Noyon was dead, long before the end of the sixteenth century, when Khlit, the Cossack called the 'Wolf,' he of the curved saber, rode into Samarkand.
The Case of the Missing Adventure Story
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The hopak was first danced by the Cossack of the Zaporhizian Sich in the sixteenth century and spread to the rest of Ukraine.
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An under-officer of Cossacks and a headborough ‡ came out.
A Hero of Our Time
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The evil church is experimenting on children, reducing them to spiritless robots called gobblers and it is up to the heroic gypsies, polar bears, witches and the star child to rescue them from the clutches of the church and their Russian speaking cossack guards.
Archive 2008-11-01
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Renowned as a Cossack leader, Bespalov traces his roots to a seventeenth-century ataman and the Zaporozhian Cossacks immortalized by Gogol in the novel Taras Bulba.
Russia's Holy Warriors
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With the whole power of the government at its back, and with a Constitution so amended as to extend the amplest protection to the new-made citizen, it left him to the inhuman mercy of men whose uncurbed passions, whose deeds of lawlessness and defiance, pale into virtues the ferocity of Cossack warfare.
Black and White
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I had no thermals, but cut a dash with pyjama bottoms under my jeans and a borrowed Cossack hat.
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`I want you to give me first option, in writing, on buying out the controlling interest in Cossack Holdings.
MURDER SONG
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He also received the disturbing news that a monk was among the Cossacks of the Don urging them to take up arms for the czarevitch who would soon be among them.
Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality
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The death of Boris at this crucial time initiated a period of utmost confusion, during which boyar families struggled for supremacy while their position was challenged by the poorer classes (led by the Cossacks) and while foreigners (Poles and Swedes) took full advantage of the situation to further their own interests.
1582
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According to tradition, Seeger was inspired by a Cossack folksong he came across in the novel And Quiet Flows the Don (1934) by Mikhail Sholokhov, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1965.
Archive 2009-08-01
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The Cossacks and the Pilgrims must have shared some obscure latitudinal gene, some common trait that goes all the way back to the Indo-Europeans.
A Bear Hunt in Riga
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Hundreds of years ago, it was home to the hard-drinking Cossacks.
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And if he was the last man I would have chosen forc her - well, she cared for him, and I thought, their sons will have my blood, they may be Cossacks, horse-and-lance men, grandchildren to be proud of.
The Sky Writer
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The Red sailors and the Red Cossacks had the most fighting spirit, but this was devalued by their volatility, disobedience, and general unruliness.
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On the top was a pole wrapped in straw which could be ignited by the cossack sentry in case of enemy incursion.
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The three novels (titled in the Hippocrene Books edition "With Fire & Sword," "The Deluge," and "Fire in the Steppe") detail the troubles in Poland in the mid-17th century when it was beset by a gruesome Cossack rebellion aided by a Tartar invasion, simultaneous invasion by Sweden, Russia and the Cossacks, and then invasion by the Ottomans.
Calhoun's Defense of Poland's Unanimity Rule, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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He got up and stood very politely in front of Gloria Vanderman, removing his cossack kalpak for the first time and holding it with a peculiar suggestion of humility.
The Eye of Zeitoon
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He then began to wonder what the rumours were that Clements had mentioned about Cossack Holdings.
MURDER SONG
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The Streltsy and the Cossacks were professional units but they were officered by foreigners.
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COSSACK: Now, when you say "placate," give us a little more description.
CNN Transcript Aug 2, 2001
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The ensemble welcomed me with a song as deafening as it was spirited — to which I could imagine men in conical fur hats hurling aside tables and performing the famous, tendon-tearing Cossack squat-and-kick dance called the kazachok.
Russia's Holy Warriors
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“Idiot!” says the Cossack, beating the Jew with a stick. “How dare you waste good food on a lowly chicken!”
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Allies obtained a final victory; that Bonaparte was overtaken by a party of Sachen's Cossacks, who immediately slaid him, and divided his body between them.
The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of
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The Cossacks carry long bullwhips and have batons tucked into their belts.
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A spare mount had been brought and Victor was ordered, under the sharp blade of a Cossack sword, to mount.
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The headpiece, also of caracul, is patterned after the Cossack's.
