Buriat

[ boor-yaht, boor-ee-aht; Russian boo-ryaht ]

noun

1. Buryat.

Example Sentences

That winter, for the first time, Baron Niaz, the Buriat, came to Tobolsk.

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If the half-caste negro is a brown mulatto, the quarter-caste a light quadroon, and the next remove a practically white octoroon, surely Baron Niaz, in spite of his remote Buriat great-grandfathers, might well pass for an ordinary everyday civilized Russian.

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He was a Buriat, to be sure: but at Tobolsk, you know——.

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You do not know the Buriat country—it is wild, savage, rugged, pine-clad, snow-clad, solitary, inaccessible, but very beautiful.

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Yes, mademoiselle," the young man went on, flooding her each moment with the flashing light from his great luminous eyes; "my village in the Buriat country lies high up beside the eternal snows.

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