Buriat
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Yes, it was a long and hard journey, up among those border mountains of the Chinese and Tibetan frontier; but Olga felt at home at last when, after three weeks of incessant jolting, they arrived at the Buriat mountain stronghold, under cover of the night; and Niaz led her straightway to her own pretty little European boudoir, which he had prepared for her beforehand at immense expense and trouble in his upland village.
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That was the last Olga Davidoff then saw of her Buriat husband.
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That winter, for the first time, Baron Niaz, the Buriat, came to Tobolsk.
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Moreover, though a Buriat chief, he was a most undoubted nobleman: at the Governor's parties he took rank, by patent of the Emperor Nicholas, as a real Russian baron of the first water.
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He was a Buriat, to be sure: but at Tobolsk, you know——.
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