Szekler

The original limits of the diocese varied somehat from the present boundaries, as they included the County of Mármaros, while the provostship of Szeben was exempt and some parts of the Szekler country were subject to the Bishop of Milkovia in Rumania.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

Balazsfalva came the Szekler muster at Agyagfalva, and presently we found ourselves like an island in the midst of the sea.

Manasseh A Romance of Transylvania M��r J��kai 1864

While a part of my forces conduct a feigned assault in the valley, and so engage the attention of your men, my main body will descend on the town from the direction of the Szekler Stone, and will assail it in the rear, where none but women and children are left to receive the attack.

Manasseh A Romance of Transylvania M��r J��kai 1864

Cagliari suffer any living woman to drag his name in the mire before all the world -- to laugh to scorn the decree of the Roman Curia -- to scratch out his name after her own and replace it with that of a Szekler peasant?

Manasseh A Romance of Transylvania M��r J��kai 1864

But how would it be when the attack in the rear should begin, from the direction of the Szekler

Manasseh A Romance of Transylvania M��r J��kai 1864

His heels must never touch the floor, nor may he, while bobbing thus comically up and down and trolling his lively ditty, suffer his face to relax from that expression of sober and dignified earnestness which marks the true Szekler.

Manasseh A Romance of Transylvania M��r J��kai 1864

The Szekler dance resembles no other terpsichorean exercise, nor is it by any means easy of execution.

Manasseh A Romance of Transylvania M��r J��kai 1864

Thence it is only a step to the Szekler Stone, and we are at home.

Manasseh A Romance of Transylvania M��r J��kai 1864

His horny hands were hardened by toil, but he had a clever head on his shoulders; he was well endowed with mother-wit, quick at repartee, merciless in his satire toward the haughty and overbearing, cool and good-humoured in the presence of danger, -- in short, a genuine Szekler, heart and soul.

Manasseh A Romance of Transylvania M��r J��kai 1864

Adorjan, he is of good old Szekler descent, and he has seven brothers and a twin sister.

Manasseh A Romance of Transylvania M��r J��kai 1864