Do we say tartar or tarter

tartar 536 occurrences

IVAN THE GREAT UNITES RUSSIA AND BREAKS THE TARTAR YOKE A.D. 1462-1505 Robert Bell At the birth of Ivan III (1440)

Kazan, the first and greatest of the Tartar cities, too, claimed a sovereignty over the republics, which Ivan was afraid to contest, lest that which was but a vague and empty claim might end in confirmed authority.

He merely evaded the tax, while he acknowledged the right; and his dissimulation succeeded in blinding the Tartar, who still believed that he held the Grand Prince as a tributary, although he did not receive his tribute.

The Khan, completely deceived, not only permitted this recusancy to escape with impunity, but was further prevailed upon to withdraw the Tartar residents and their retinues, and the Tartar merchants who dwelt in Moscow and who infested, with the haughty bearing of masters, even the avenues of the Kremlin.

The Khan, completely deceived, not only permitted this recusancy to escape with impunity, but was further prevailed upon to withdraw the Tartar residents and their retinues, and the Tartar merchants who dwelt in Moscow and who infested, with the haughty bearing of masters, even the avenues of the Kremlin.

This latter concession was purchased by bribery, for Ivan condescended to buy the interference of a Tartar princess.

While he hung behind the Lugra, seeking a base and humiliating compromise at the hands of the enemy, his lieutenant of Svenigorod, and his ally the Khan of the Crimea, advanced upon the Golden Horde, and pushed their victorious arms into the very den of the Tartars, at the time that the Tartar forces were drawn off in the invasion of Russia.

TARTAR INVASION OF CHINA

Kaotsou, imagining that victory was within his grasp, and believing the stories brought to him by spies of the weakness of the Tartar army, resolved on an immediate attack.

Kaotsou seized at this suggestion, as the drowning man will catch at a straw, and the story is preserved, though her name has passed into oblivion, of how the young Chinese girl entered into the plan and devoted all her wits to charming the Tartar conqueror.

Under Hoeiti, the Tartar King Meha sent an envoy to the capital, but either the form or the substance of his message enraged the empress-mother, who ordered his execution.

Not long afterward the Tartar King died, and was succeeded by his son Lao Chang.

"It will be better presently," gasped Catrina, wrestling with her fractious little Tartar thoroughbreds, "when we get out on to the high-road.

We are fatalists, we Russians near the Tartar line!

From Constantinople, the capital of the Greek empire when the Turks were a wandering and unknown Tartar tribe in the northern part of Asia, had come the religion that was embraced by the ancient czars and the Slavonic races which they ruled.

Sir Fretful Plagiary; brabbler^, Tartar; shrew, vixen, virago, termagant, dragon, scold, Xantippe; porcupine; spitfire; fire eater &c (blusterer) 887; fury &c (violent person) 173.

The Mahometans extend themselves over the great Turk's dominions in Europe, Africa, Asia, to the Xeriffes in Barbary, and its territories in Fez, Sus, Morocco, &c. The Tartar, the great Mogor, the Sophy of Persia, with most of their dominions and subjects, are at this day Mahometans.

c. A Tartar prince, saith Marcus Polus, lib. 1. cap.

made a serjeant his "Verses in Memory of a Child" Talma and Lamb "Tartar Drum," Lamb's version Tartary, Lamb on Tatler, The, and Jerdan Tayler, C.B. Taylor, Jeremy John.

The Tartar women were mostly richly clothed, and also very ragged.

In the neighbourhood of the castle is a Tartar village, of which there are many in the Crimea.

But it was not merely the absence of colour and beauty in dress, or the want of national character and distinctiona plainness that would afflict even a Russian peasant from the Ukraine or a Tartar from the further Caspian.

The Chinese town, which contains the Tartar town, which contains the yellow town, or Houng Tching, which contains the Red Town, or Tsen-Kai-Tching, that is to say, "the forbidden town."

It seems he was seized with a bilious complaint, for which he administered a strong solution of vitriolic acid, so powerful as to produce violent and burning pains, that threatened to be fatal unless immediate relief could be procured, which was attempted to be got by a powerful dose of tartar emetic.

These were real princesnot Tartar-Georgians, but pure-blooded descendants of Rurik.

tarter 4 occurrences

He saw heed caught a Tarter, in fact, a regular Tarter emetic, and he slunk away rather sudden.

He saw heed caught a Tarter, in fact, a regular Tarter emetic, and he slunk away rather sudden.

Mike Tarter of Tennessee, Gearheart's son-in-law brought horses from Tennessee and ran them here.

Tarter was a promoter and book-maker also.

Do we say   tartar   or  tarter