tartars

It had also considerable problems with the cossacks and the tartars.

Matthew Yglesias » 18th Century Polish Strategic Dilemmas 2010

Kyver -- that is to say, a _wrangler_ or _scolder_ -- and expressed the characteristic of his family, which for nearly two centuries had kept the windy town of Saardam in hot water, and produced more tartars and brimstones than any ten families in the place; and so truly did he inherit this family peculiarity that he had not been a year in the government of the province before he was universally denominated

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester

Belchertown, an 'Moses Baker takes him up, an' they wrassle like two tartars, till at last Moses tuckers Phineas out an 'downs him as slick as a whistle.

Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know Asa Don Dickinson 1918

Then Phineas Owens allows he can flop any boy in Belchertown, an 'Moses Baker takes him up, an' they wrassle like two tartars, till at last Moses tuckers Phineas out an 'downs him as slick as a whistle.

A Little Book of Profitable Tales Eugene Field 1872

Oh yes, that's what you think; you know it, you do, _but you're mistaken_ "(he became terribly sarcastic and bitter at this point);" you'll find that you've got _men_ to deal with, that you've not only caught a tartar, but _two_ tartars -- one o 'them being ten times tartarer than the other.

Gascoyne, The Sandal-Wood Trader A Tale of the Pacific 1859

Oh yes, that's what you think; you know it, you do, _but you're mistaken_, "(he became terribly sarcastic and bitter at this point;)" you'll find that you have got _men_ to deal with, that you've not only caught a tartar, but _two_ tartars -- one o 'them being ten times tartarer than the other.

Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader 1859

Saardam in hot water, and produced more tartars and brimstones than any ten families in the place; and so truly did he inherit this family peculiarity that he had not been a year in the government of the province before he was universally denominated William the Testy.

Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete Washington Irving 1821

By their proud step and martial mien. heir feathers dance, their tartars float,

The Lady of the Lake 1810

By their proud step and martial mien. heir feathers dance, their tartars float,

The Lady of the Lake Walter Scott 1801

For an additional $3 there is a starter of tartars.

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