36 Metaphors for turks

The Turk had become an adept at sniping, and left parties in the hills to carry on by themselves.

The Turk is a soldier and farmer; the Greek is pre-eminent as a trader, and his ability secured him a disproportionate share of the trade of the empire.

For nearly five hundred years, the Turk has been a disturbing factor in Europe.

Line 11: the Turk is Europe's foe.

The Turk is an economic parasite, and the economic organism must end of rejecting him.

The Turk is a conqueror and nothing else.

In the languages of southern India, Turk is the general appellation for a Musalman.

The Turk, on the other hand, who was the next Imperial race, boasted no city and no self-conscious superiority of laws or race.

The ordinary Turk is an honest and good-humoured soul, kind to children and animals, and very patient; but when the fighting spirit comes on him, he becomes like the terrible warriors of the Huns or Henghis Khan, and slays, burns and ravages without mercy or discrimination.

The Turk was always a fighter, disciplined and courageous, and he has never lost that virtue of valour.

Since the earliest times the Turks have been a race of nomadic warriors.

The Turks, the least gifted of the races living in Turkey, are themselves only a minority of the population, and are still far behind the Arabs in culture.

E. These Turks must have been the Persian ambassadors of Uzun-Hassan;E. This proposed route seems to have been through the province of Guria to Batum; and, from the sequel, to have returned to Georgia and Shirvan, passing through Derbent and the Caspian gates, or Daghisten, into western Tartary.

On that day the Turks came nearer success than ever before or after.

Still, it's no use crying till we're hurt, and the Turks ain't the best gunners in the world.' 'Crash!'

We must remember that the Turks were a great power, even in the times of Peter the Great, and would have taken Vienna but for John Sobieski.

For they [the Turks] are not only strict observers of religious worship, but what is worse, believe a God; which is more than required of us even while we preserve the name of Christians.

Next day the Turks were much quieter.

But the Turks were past reason, and their Army was already on the move.

The Young Turks were not Nationalists from the beginning; the "Committee of Union and Progress" was founded in good faith to liberate and reconcile all the inhabitants of the Empire on the principles of the French Revolution.

" The Turks, who had been since 1453 settled at Constantinople, were the terror of Christian Europe; and Germany especially had need of a puissant and valiant defender against them.

"We teachers, who have been teaching Greeks, Armenians, Arabs, Turks, and Jews in German schools in Turkey for years, can only pass judgment that of all our pupils the pure Turks are the most unwilling and the least talented.

The dreadful scene was acted and over; the Turks were possessors of the famed castle of Abydos, and Sophronia's father, the governor, was hanged.

This man was clothed by his Lordship's orders, and sent over to Patras; and soon after Count Gamba's release, hearing that four other Turks were prisoners in Missolonghi, he requested that they might be placed in his hands, which was immediately granted.

The admirals of the allied fleet were doubtless "the aggressors in the battle; but the Turks were the aggressors in the war.

36 Metaphors for  turks