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Meanings of cossacks in English
East Slavic-speaking Orthodox Christian people originating in the Pontic steppe.
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Examples for "cossack"
Examples for "cossack"
1
Outguards are divided into three classes, cossack posts, sentry squads and packets.
2
Sentry squads and cossack posts furnished by pickets are counted as sentinel posts.
3
Sentinels furnished by cossack posts or sentry squads are kept near their group.
4
He was robed in an elegant Cossack cafetan embroidered on the seams.
5
The Cossack infantry is represented on the other side of this wagon.
Usage of cossacks in English
1
A single officer of cossacks, however, on patrole, presented himself to their view.
2
He left behind him some cossacks to burn the forage; the houses were spared.
3
The cossacks and symbols are there for Kandinsky more than they are for us.
4
Those who were not destined to recruit the regulars, joined the militia or the cossacks.
5
One day the cossacks brought some prisoners and locked them up in a cart-house built of stone.
6
In three days the Cossacks will be in the streets of Erzerum.
7
All tell that the Cossacks were the first to rob the prisoners.
8
The officers got up and stood round the Cossacks and their prisoner.
9
Among the irregular troops of Russia, the most important are the Cossacks.
10
Those who helped us chiefly were the old dissenters and the Cossacks.
11
To the toiling Cossacks the war has only brought ruin and death.
12
But they could hear all around them the cries of the Cossacks.
13
The Russian inhabitants of Kamchatka are mostly descended from Cossacks and exiles.
14
Cossacks, it would seem, have no personal acquaintance with colds and rheumatism.
15
Both the young Cossacks soon took a good standing among their fellows.
16
They would all have been beaten long ago but for the Cossacks.
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Spanish
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