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  • noun Alternative spelling of hajduk.

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Examples

  • They cleared the route from time to time, and then woe to the captured heyduk, whether Moslem or Christian.

    Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle 1903

  • His practice as a heyduk and a natural capacity for strategy enabled him for long to wage successful guerrilla warfare, which baffled the Turks.

    Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle 1903

  • On his return later to Serbia he took to the mountains for some time as a heyduk or brigand.

    Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle 1903

  • They could not have resisted, if they had wished, that environment, of good-will; and if it had not been for the disappointed heyduk, they would have got home from their evening at the Circus Renz without a pang.

    Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete William Dean Howells 1878

  • They could not have resisted, if they had wished, that environment, of good-will; and if it had not been for the disappointed heyduk, they would have got home from their evening at the Circus Renz without a pang.

    Their Silver Wedding Journey — Volume 1 William Dean Howells 1878

  • They could not have resisted, if they had wished, that environment, of good-will; and if it had not been for the disappointed heyduk, they would have got home from their evening at the Circus Renz without a pang.

    Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878

  • The kindly civility which environed them went far to alleviate the inclemency of the climate; it began to rain as soon as they left the shelter of the car, but a citizen of whom they asked the nearest way to the Circus Renz was so anxious to have them go aright that they did not mind the wet, and the thought of his goodness embittered March's self-reproach for under-tipping the sort of gorgeous heyduk, with a staff like a drum-major's, who left his place at the circus door to get their tickets.

    Their Silver Wedding Journey — Volume 1 William Dean Howells 1878

  • The kindly civility which environed them went far to alleviate the inclemency of the climate; it began to rain as soon as they left the shelter of the car, but a citizen of whom they asked the nearest way to the Circus Renz was so anxious to have them go aright that they did not mind the wet, and the thought of his goodness embittered March's self-reproach for under-tipping the sort of gorgeous heyduk, with a staff like a drum-major's, who left his place at the circus door to get their tickets.

    Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878

  • The kindly civility which environed them went far to alleviate the inclemency of the climate; it began to rain as soon as they left the shelter of the car, but a citizen of whom they asked the nearest way to the Circus Renz was so anxious to have them go aright that they did not mind the wet, and the thought of his goodness embittered March's self-reproach for under-tipping the sort of gorgeous heyduk, with a staff like a drum-major's, who left his place at the circus door to get their tickets.

    Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete William Dean Howells 1878

  • That heyduk is not going to get off with less than a mark when we come out. "

    Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete William Dean Howells 1878

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