Tartary

How To Use Tartary In A Sentence

• Historically, too, medieval mapmakers and geographers filled unknown regions with such beasties: centaurs, mermaids, manticores and Tartary lambs.
• The study indicated that ISSR produced high polymorphism on tartary buckwheat. ISSR analysis can be used for the molecular evaluation and studies of genetic diversity of tartary buckwheat germplasm.
• The relations of the missionaries, who visited Tartary in the thirteenth century, (see the seventh volume of the Histoire des Voyages,) express the popular language and opinions; Zingis is styled the son of God, &c. &c.] 8 Nec templum apud eos visitur, aut delubrum, ne tugurium quidem culmo tectum cerni usquam potest; sed gladius Barbarico ritu humi figitur nudus, eumque ut Martem regionum quas circumcircant praesulem verecundius colunt. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• The Hindu Angelina might be vacuous, vain, papilionaceous, silly, or even a mere doll, but if her hair hung down “like the tail of a Tartary cow,” 96 if her eyes were “like the stones of unripe mangoes,” and her nose resembled the beak of a parrot, the Hindu Edwin was more than satisfied. The Life of Sir Richard Burton
• Certain sailors, on a voyage from the Azores to Ireland, had caught glimpses of land on the west, and believed it to be the coast of "Tartary;" etc., etc. See _Vita dell 'Ammiraglio_, cap. ix. The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest
• If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless. How different would yours have been, had the chance of birth placed you in Tartary or India! Percy Bysshe Shelley 
• The harvest has failed in Tartary, and you know that the state of foreign harvests affects our prices much more than that of our own. A Dialogue for the Year 2130
• As part of the ongoing interrogation, Ginzburg's former colleagues from the magazine Red Tartary are called in to confront her.
• Tartary, where it is most commonly found in the shrubless plains; in form it is a miniature of the kangaroo, to which in some of its peculiarities it bears a close resemblance, though in size it is very little larger than our common English rat. A Peep into Toorkisthhan
• The low shrub oak plateau to which the opposite shore arose stretched away toward the prairies of the West and the steppes of Tartary, affording ample room for all the roving families of men.