There are mountain Kurds and Kurds of the plain, husbandmen and herdsmen, Kurds who have kept to their original homes along the eastern frontier, and Kurds who, under Ottoman auspices, have spread themselves over the Armenian plateau, the North Mesopotamian steppes, the Taurus valleys, and the hinterland of the Black Sea.

Byzantium has become a very potent element in the Osmanlis' character, more potent than the habits of the march or the instinct of the steppes.

The break-up of the Arab Caliphate of Bagdad had led to an interminable, meaningless conflict among a host of petty Moslem States; the wearing struggle between Islam and Christendom had been intensified by the Crusades; and waves of nomadic invaders, each more destructive and more irresistible than the last, had swept over Moslem Asia out of the steppes and deserts of the north-east.

If you cross the Euphrates by the bridge that carries the Bagdad Railway, you enter a vast landscape of steppes as virgin to the eye as any prairie across the Mississippi.

His vision, clairvoyant-like, seemed to have lifted, to traverse broad seas, limitless steppes.

I cannot bear to hear the cry of shame that will come over the Atlantic from the vineyards of France, from the glaciers of Switzerland, and from the steppes of Russia, if we permit the walls of our blood-bought inheritance to be broken down.

"Do you know"he broke out all at once"why they don't take steppes in Tartary for establishing Insane Hospitals?" We both confessed ignorance.

On the left the view is over the interminable steppes of the Gobi.

A cloud sailing lone and high from the coast of Sousse passed under the moon and everywhere men stirred in their sleep, woke, looked outfrom their tents on the cactus steppes, from fondouks on the camel tracks of the west, from marble courts of Kairwan....

The idea of staying in that out-of-the-way corner of the steppes never entered her head for an instant.

They were in the worst place in the Mediterranean where the winds coming from the narrow passage of the Adriatic, from the steppes of Asia Minor, from the African deserts and from the gap of Gibraltar tempestuously mingled their atmospheric currents.

Now the brownish-gray steppes coming out from the fleecy fog of daybreak were palpitating with new life.

I have been tramping on the cold, cold steppes, frozen, forced to get back into myself and hide like the trees, and when I came here it seemed somehow as if Nature herself had been angry with me, relented, and was now showing me all her tenderness again.

In the shadow the lines of the sea are a sequence of wavings like the smoke of the snow blown over the steppes.

Pushkin Goblins of the Steppes...............................

Delibash is the Turkish synonym for Hotspur. TO THE DON Through the Steppes, see there he glances!

GOBLINS OP THE STEPPES Stormy clouds delirious straying, Showers of whirling snowflakes white, And the pallid moonbeams waning Sad the heavens, sad the night!

Or let him through the far Steppes gallop, His horse can scarcely stand at all His stamping hoofs in vain seek foothold, The rider dreading lest he fall!

TO THE CLOUDS Cloudsye eternal wanderers in hunting grounds of air, High o'er the verdant Steppes, wide through the blue of heaven

Why, I cannot say; The endless snowy Steppes so silent brooding, In the pine forests Autumn winds pursuing The flood's high water on all sides in May.

Hail thy green forests proud, Hail thy silvery nightingales, Hail Steppes and wind and cloud!

TO RUSSIA 'Neath a giant tent Of the heavens blue, Stretch the verdant Steppes; Range beyond the view.

Through the Steppes there rolls Stream on stream to sea, Wide meandering, Straying far and free.

Her snowflake flocks, her gleaming midnight frosts, The glory of grim forests on her coasts, Green tinted Steppes with distant bluish rim The trooping clouds in heaven's spaces dim.

STEPPES, the name given to wide, treeless plains, barren except in spring, of the SE. of Russia and SW. of Siberia.

Easelmann was coming down, and saw her hesitating step and her tremulous grasp upon the rail; he sprang down four steps at a time, caught her before she fell, and carried her in his arms like a child up to Mrs. Sandford's room.

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The spectacle of Mrs. Finnegan, who lodged in the flat below, slopping warm suds over the thin marble steps, added a final note of homeliness, which divorced Claire completely from heroics.

Claire sat with a little group composed of Mrs. Condor, Ned Stillman, a fashionable young man, Phil Edington, who frankly confessed boredom at all things musical except one-steps and fox-trots, and two or three artistic-looking souls who pretended to be quite shocked by young Edington's frankness.

Claire denied Stillman the dance, explaining that she knew none of the new steps, and he whirled away with Mrs. Condor.

I'll grant him all the one-steps, but he can't have any of the waltzes, Miss Robson.

Once a girl, young and slender and sprightly, stepped out of a taxi, about ten o'clock at night, and ran lightly up the steps of the house.

She closed the door behind her and, walking to the top of the steps, paused there and looked up and down the street.

He was able to trace him down all the three flights of steps to the bottom.

And so swift was that descent that, when the girl, idling down the steps across the street, came onto the sidewalk, Bill Gregg rushed out from the other side and ran toward her.

The cat thudded against Ronicky's knee, screeched and disappeared below; the woman of the broom shaded her eyes and peered down the steps.

Besides, he had drawn as far as possible to one side of the steps, and in this way she might easily have overlooked him.

She led the way a few steps down the hall, and he followed her through the door, working his mind frantically in an effort to find words with which to open his speech before she should see that he was not Harry Morgan and cry out to alarm the house.

He took her arm, and they passed slowly down the steps.

"'Come in, then,' says I, and in he steps.

Every few steps Copple would halt to rest.

I had to rest every few steps.

If I had been hot and wet below in the thicket I wondered what I grew on the last steps of this ridge.

Twenty steps awaymaybe.

Some slippery pine-needle slopes we had to run across, for light quick steps were the only means of safe travel.

Nehemiah sees that steps must be taken to put a stop to this state of things.

They had passed through the Beautiful Gate, crossed the Court of the Women, and had ascended the steps leading into the inner court, which was close to the Temple itself.

Then they came to the Fountain Gate, opposite to the Pool of Siloam, and here they descended by steps in the Tower of Siloam.

They probably came down in order that they might dedicate the buildings over the Pool of Siloam and the Dragon Well, and then they climbed to the top of the wall again, by the steps that went up to that part of Jerusalem called the City of David.