And you caught a tartar!

In the darkest hour of the barbaric dominion it was truer to say, "Scratch a Tartar

There is nothing particularly Tartar in Russian affairs, except the fact that Russia expelled the Tartars.

He turned a deaf ear to the cautious advice of one of his generals, who warned him that "in war we should never despise an enemy," and marched in person at the head of his advance guard to find the Tartars.

"Old Miss Mendip lives therea regular tartar; all kinds of views; writes to the papers.

Terror-struck and unmanned, he deserted the army, and shut himself up in the capital for security; and when the armed population, pouring forth from all quarters, and animated by one spirit of resistance, had advanced as far as the Oka to meet the Tartars, he recalled his son to the capital, as if he apprehended the consummation of some evil either in his own person or that of his heir.

He might reduce those wandering Tartars in order, that infest China on the one side, Muscovy, Poland, on the other; and tame the vagabond Arabians that rob and spoil those eastern countries, that they should never use more caravans, or janissaries to conduct them.

The inhabitants of this country are called Medites, and are subject to the great, khan, and resemble the Tartars in their manners.

No single kingdom or province can resist the Tartars, as they gather men for war from every land that is subjected to their dominion; and if any neighbouring province refuses to join them, they invade and lay it waste, slaughtering the inhabitants or carrying them into captivity, and then proceed against another nation.

It was certainty on the east of the Wolga at the first, to avoid the Tartars which occupied the country between the Caspian and Euxine.

Comania is a country of great length and breadth, the inhabitants of which were mostly extirpated by the Tartars, though many of them were reduced to bondage and some fled, but the fugitives have in general returned, and now serve the Tartars.

Look at these footprints, and hobnailed boots into the bargain!" CHAPTER V. CATCHING A TARTAR.

The king of Mien drew near to fight the Tartars; but the Tartarian horses were so terrified with the sight of the elephants, who were arranged along the front of the battle, that it was impossible to bring them up to the charge.