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  • It was the sort of romantic fustian we both barely tolerated, but she let it play; the hoofbeats of the Tartar kettledrums began thudding through the room.†   (source)
  • Is that the way to strip down a casting, you slit-eyed Tartar?†   (source)
  • She shook her head at the open cupboard, the dwindled and long-sugared jelly, the rusty cream of tartar box, the Mason jar of bay leaves, the spindly and darkened vanilla bottle, all the old confusion.†   (source)
  • He could've made us walk off a roof, accidentally kill each other, or even eat steak tartar.†   (source)
  • The Tartar passed by, and now Shukhov finally decided to go to the dispensary.†   (source)
  • Do you know if you have any cream of tartar in your kitchen?†   (source)
  • "Cream of tartar works, huh?" is all Luke says, though, as his gaze goes from me back to the dress.†   (source)
  • But he knew he couldn't plead with The Tartar.†   (source)
  • He thanked The Tartar for letting him off and said: "From now on I'll never get up late again.†   (source)
  • Or maybe it's just that word of my prowess with cream of tartar has spread.†   (source)
  • Follow me to the camp commandanfs office," said The Tartar lazily.†   (source)
  • The Tartar told him he was going to let him off, and ordered him to scrub the floor.†   (source)
  • The first night that the group visited that greenhouse of illusions the splendid and taciturn old woman who guarded the entrance in a wicker rocking chair felt that time was turning back to its earliest origins when among the five who were arriving she saw a bony, jaundiced man with Tartar cheekbones, marked forever and from the beginning of the world with the pox of solitude.†   (source)
  • Which is a lie, but I'm embarrassed to admit that I have other plans…and that they involve needing to find a basin big enough to soak the Givenchy dress in—with the cream of tartar—overnight.†   (source)
  • But The Tartar in his old army coat with the greasy blue tabs walked at a steady pace, as though the cold meant nothing to him.†   (source)
  • The Tartar was there again, cutting across the parade ground with long, rapid strides in the direction of the staff quarters.†   (source)
  • Shukhov was smart enough to hide from The Tartar around a corner of the barracks--the guard would stick to him if he caught him again.†   (source)
  • He didn't want to irritate The Tartar.†   (source)
  • "S 854," The Tartar read from the white strip that had been stitched to the back of his black jacket.†   (source)
  • The Tartar was no longer there.†   (source)
  • They walked into the staff quarters and The Tartar led him straight to the guardroom; and Shukhov realized, as he bad guessed on the way there, that he wasn't being sent to the guardhouse at all--it was simply that the guardroom floor needed scrubbing.†   (source)
  • And, protesting merely for the sake of form, he hitched up his trousers (a bedraggled scrap of cloth had been sewn on them, just above the left knee, with a faded black number), slipped on his jacket (here the same digits appeared twice--on the chest and on the back), fished his valenki from the heap on the floor, put his hat on (with his number on a patch of cloth at the front), and followed The Tartar out of the barrack room.†   (source)
  • He turned, looking around for another victim, but now everybody, in dim corners and. under the lights, in upper bunks and in lower, had thrust their legs into their black wadded trousers or, already dressed, had wrapped their coats around themselves and hurried to the door to get out of the way until The Tartar had left.†   (source)
  • The lieutenant, still swearing loudly with a slight Tartar accent, untied his horse, vaulted into the saddle, and galloped down the road into the woods.†   (source)
  • They liked and they marvelled at everything, most of all at the unceasing chatter of their quaint old driver, in whose speech archaic Russian forms, Tartar idioms, and local oddities of diction were punctuated with obscurities of his own invention.†   (source)
  • They were a remarkable sight-rich, smart lawyers and stockbrokers from Petrograd side by side with cab drivers, floor polishers, bath attendants, Tartar ragpickers, escaped lunatics, shopkeepers, and monks, all lumped in with the exploiting classes.†   (source)
  • One canine had gone, and the front teeth were yellow with tartar and carious.†   (source)
  • Not that Mrs. Ascher had been afraid of him-a real tartar she could be when roused!†   (source)
  • That was in the great days of Pablo when he scourged the country like a tartar and no fascist post was safe at night.†   (source)
  • She had the temper of a Tartar and the rages of a wild cat and, at such times, she did not seem to care what she said or how much it hurt.†   (source)
  • She was a Tartar, he could bet.†   (source)
  • In a few armies since the Tartar's first invasion of the West were men executed summarily for as little reason as they were under his command.†   (source)
  • Tartar faces in every direction you look.†   (source)
  • Her favorite stag-hounds, Russ and Tartar, were asleep before the door, where they had been chained.†   (source)
  • Russ lay upon one side and Tartar upon the other.†   (source)
  • Warsaw can no more be Tartar than Venice can be Teuton.†   (source)
  • "My eye, miss," he said in a low voice, "he's a Tartar!"†   (source)
  • 'A Tartar,' said the man with the wooden leg.†   (source)
  • On the nearest one sat a Tartar, probably a Cossack, judging by the uniform thrown down beside him.†   (source)
  • Send for some oil of turpentine and tartar emetic.†   (source)
  • "Well, I'd been selling an article to take the tartar off the teeth—and it does take it off, too, and generly the enamel along with it—but I stayed about one night longer than I ought to, and was just in the act of sliding out when I ran across you on the trail this side of town, and you told me they were coming, and begged me to help you to get off.†   (source)
  • The fact was that in Florence the poor wretch had got hold of a Tartar, compared with whom Leonora was a sucking kid.†   (source)
  • The man from the country had not expected difficulties like this, the law was supposed to be accessible for anyone at any time, he thinks, but now he looks more closely at the doorkeeper in his fur coat, sees his big hooked nose, his long thin tartar-beard, and he decides it's better to wait until he has permission to enter.†   (source)
  • Occasionally I strike a tartar.†   (source)
  • …as through all these years the only questions he asks are 'disinterested', he's not corruptible, as when he's offered a gift he says, 'I'll only accept this so that you don't think there's anything you've failed to do,' as far as fulfilling his duty goes he can be neither ruffled nor begged, as it says about the man that, 'he tires the doorkeeper with his requests', even his external appearance suggests a pedantic character, the big hooked nose and the long, thin, black tartar-beard.†   (source)
  • It suited what Settembrini liked to call her "Tartar physiognomy" very nicely, in particular it went well with her "lone-wolf eyes."†   (source)
  • She both gave it to him and held it back, so that he took it without actually taking hold of it—raising his hand, very close to the pencil, his fingers ready to grasp it, but not actually grasping; and the gaze from his leaden eye sockets shifted between the object and Clavdia's Tartar face.†   (source)
  • She laughed, the cigarette still in her mouth, and her Tartar eyes narrowed to slits; leaning back against the wainscoting and supporting herself on both sides with her hands, one leg still crossed over the other, she jiggled her foot in its patent leather shoe.†   (source)
  • …in love, dependent, subjugated, suffering and serving— was nevertheless a man who remained shrewd enough amid his slavery to know exactly what his devotion was worth, and would continue to be worth, to the slinking patient with the enchanting "Tartar slits"; and she could be constantly reminded of its worth, or so he told himself despite his suffering subjugation, by the behavior of Herr Settembrini, who only too openly confirmed her own suspicions by attitudes as dismissive toward her…†   (source)
  • It reminded him of the light and color of a certain pair of eyes, slanting eyes that spoke of destiny, the ones Herr Settembrini, taking a disparaging humanistic view, had called "Tartar slits" and "lone-wolf eyes"— reminded him of eyes seen long ago and ineluctably rediscovered, of Hippe's and Clavdia Chauchat's eyes.†   (source)
  • "Take a glass of boiled water and put a pinch of cream of tartar," and he indicated with his delicate fingers what he meant by a pinch.†   (source)
  • The color of the Indian, the writer believes, is peculiar to himself, and while his cheek-bones have a very striking indication of a Tartar origin, his eyes have not.†   (source)
  • The next year I sometimes caught a mess of fish for my dinner, and once I went so far as to slaughter a woodchuck which ravaged my bean-field—effect his transmigration, as a Tartar would say—and devour him, partly for experiment's sake; but though it afforded me a momentary enjoyment, notwithstanding a musky flavor, I saw that the longest use would not make that a good practice, however it might seem to have your woodchucks ready dressed by the village butcher.†   (source)
  • …pipes reclining beneath arbours in the arms of Bayaderes; Djiaours, Turkish sabres, Greek caps; and you especially, pale landscapes of dithyrambic lands, that often show us at once palm trees and firs, tigers on the right, a lion to the left, Tartar minarets on the horizon; the whole framed by a very neat virgin forest, and with a great perpendicular sunbeam trembling in the water, where, standing out in relief like white excoriations on a steel-grey ground, swans are swimming about.†   (source)
  • And Herbert had seen him as a predatory Tartar of comic propensities, with a face like a red brick, and an outrageous hat all over bells.†   (source)
  • The supper consisted of a roast pheasant garnished with Corsican blackbirds; a boar's ham with jelly, a quarter of a kid with tartar sauce, a glorious turbot, and a gigantic lobster.†   (source)
  • How I snuffed that Tartar air!†   (source)
  • I had a dog that lived and died in it from a puppy; and my chaise-pony goes on, in Timour the Tartar.†   (source)
  • He was famed for great knowledge and skill in horsemanship, being as dexterous on horseback as a Tartar.†   (source)
  • I heard that Mr. Creakle had not preferred his claim to being a Tartar without reason; that he was the sternest and most severe of masters; that he laid about him, right and left, every day of his life, charging in among the boys like a trooper, and slashing away, unmercifully.†   (source)
  • She's a Tartar."†   (source)
  • The helmsman who steered by that tiller in a tempest, felt like the Tartar, when he holds back his fiery steed by clutching its jaw.†   (source)
  • He was a little frisky; though as yet his body seemed scarce yet recovered from that irksome position it had so lately occupied in the maternal reticule; where, tail to head, and all ready for the final spring, the unborn whale lies bent like a Tartar's bow.†   (source)
  • "And who is this?" she asked her governess, peering into the face of her own daughter dressed up as a Kazan-Tartar.†   (source)
  • 'I'm a Tartar.'†   (source)
  • When he had finished with the Tartar, whom they covered with an overcoat, the spectacled doctor came up to Prince Andrew, wiping his hands.†   (source)
  • …leagues are flanked by ancient and unentered forests, where the gaunt pines stand like serried lines of kings in Gothic genealogies; those same woods harboring wild Afric beasts of prey, and silken creatures whose exported furs give robes to Tartar Emperors; they mirror the paved capitals of Buffalo and Cleveland, as well as Winnebago villages; they float alike the full-rigged merchant ship, the armed cruiser of the State, the steamer, and the beech canoe; they are swept by Borean and…†   (source)
  • The motion of the small foot shod in a Tartar boot embroidered with silver, and the firm pressure of the lean sinewy hand, showed that the prince still possessed the tenacious endurance and vigor of hardy old age.†   (source)
  • "Ooh, ooh, ooh!" grunted the Tartar, and suddenly lifting up his swarthy snub-nosed face with its high cheekbones, and baring his white teeth, he began to wriggle and twitch his body and utter piercing, ringing, and prolonged yells.†   (source)
  • "Isn't she a Tartar!"†   (source)
  • On the sixth, which was his name day when the house would be full of visitors, Nicholas knew he would have to exchange his Tartar tunic for a tail coat, and put on narrow boots with pointed toes, and drive to the new church he had built, and then receive visitors who would come to congratulate him, offer them refreshments, and talk about the elections of the nobility; but he considered himself entitled to spend the eve of that day in his usual way.†   (source)
  • I'm the Tartar to settle your little lot and break you in!†   (source)
  • You Chinaman and Chinawoman of China! you Tartar of Tartary!†   (source)
  • The bloodiest old tartar God ever made.†   (source)
  • To the gates of Tartar, thou most excellent devil of wit!†   (source)
  • PUCK I go, I go; look how I go,— Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow.†   (source)
  • Here's a Bohemian-Tartar tarries the coming down of thy fat woman.†   (source)
  • LYSANDER Thy love! out, tawny Tartar, out!†   (source)
  • One of the greatest in the Christian world Shall be my surety; 'fore whose throne 'tis needful, Ere I can perfect mine intents, to kneel: Time was I did him a desired office, Dear almost as his life; which gratitude Through flinty Tartar's bosom would peep forth, And answer, thanks: I duly am informed His grace is at Marseilles; to which place We have convenient convoy.†   (source)
  • The poor Chinese who had led the camel, seeing the Tartar down, runs to him, and seizing upon his pole-ax, wrenched it from his hands, and knocked his brains out.†   (source)
  • Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, Witch's mummy, maw and gulf Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark, Root of hemlock digg'd i' the dark, Liver of blaspheming Jew, Gall of goat, and slips of yew Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse, Nose of Turk, and Tartar's lips, Finger of birth-strangl'd babe Ditch-deliver'd by a drab,— Make the gruel thick and slab: Add thereto a tiger's chaudron, For the ingredients of our caldron.†   (source)
  • There n'as quicksilver, litharge, nor brimstone, Boras, ceruse, nor oil of tartar none, Nor ointement that woulde cleanse or bite, That him might helpen of his whelkes* white, *pustules Nor of the knobbes* sitting on his cheeks.†   (source)
  • The date is out of such prolixity: We'll have no Cupid hoodwink'd with a scarf, Bearing a Tartar's painted bow of lath, Scaring the ladies like a crow-keeper; Nor no without-book prologue, faintly spoke After the prompter, for our entrance: But, let them measure us by what they will, We'll measure them a measure, and be gone.†   (source)
  • As when a vultur on Imaus bred, Whose snowy ridge the roving Tartar bounds, Dislodging from a region scarce of prey To gorge the flesh of lambs or yeanling kids, On hills where flocks are fed, flies toward the springs Of Ganges or Hydaspes, Indian streams; But in his way lights on the barren plains Of Sericana, where Chineses drive With sails and wind their cany waggons light: So, on this windy sea of land, the Fiend Walked up and down alone, bent on his prey; Alone, for other creature…†   (source)
  • This noble king, this Tartar Cambuscan, Hadde two sons by Elfeta his wife, Of which the eldest highte Algarsife, The other was y-called Camballo.†   (source)
  • Upon which, believing this cunning Tartar, who was servant to our Muscovites, away they drove to Shiheilka, and in less than three minutes were out of sight, nor did we ever hear of them more.†   (source)
  • But there was another Tartar to deal with, who seeming neither inclined to fight nor fly, and my old man having begun to charge his pistol, the very sight of it struck such a terror into the wretch, that away he scoured, leaving my old pilot, rather my champion and defender, an absolute victory.†   (source)
  • Phoebus had left the angle meridional, And yet ascending was the beast royal, The gentle Lion, with his Aldrian, <19> When that this Tartar king, this Cambuscan, Rose from the board, there as he sat full high Before him went the loude minstrelsy, Till he came to his chamber of parements,<20> There as they sounded diverse instruments, That it was like a heaven for to hear.†   (source)
  • The better to effectuate my design, I procured a Tartar's sheep-skin robe, a bonnet, with bow and arrows, and every one of us got the like habits, the first night we spent in mixing combustible matter with aqua vitae, gunpowder, &c. having a good quantity of tar in a little pot: next night we came up to the idol about eleven o'clock, the moon being up.†   (source)
  • There I beheld upon the stump of an old tree, an idol of wood, more ugly than the representation of the devil himself: its head resembled no living creature; its ears were as big and as high as goat's horns, a crooked nose, four-cornered mouth, and horrible teeth: it was clothed in sheep skins, had a great Tartar bonnet, with two horns growing thro' it, and was eight feet high, without feet, legs or proportion.†   (source)
  • By this time being awakened from my trance, I began to open my eyes, wondering where I was, having quite forgot all that passed; but my senses returning, and feeling a great pain in my head, and seeing the blood was running over my clothes, I instantly jumped upon my feet, and grasped my sword in my hand, with a resolution to take revenge: but no enemies now remained, except the dead Tartar, with his horse standing by him.†   (source)
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