Six ugly Tartar horsemen with very uncomfortable-looking spears and appalling shouts, and mounted on their swift kirghiz ponies, were charging down upon him, while neither the rushing Yellow River on the right hand, nor the steep dirt-cliffs on the left, could offer him shelter or means of escape.
"Historic Girls"
E. S. Brooks
Before me stretched the kirghiz Steppes.
"The Daughter of the Commandant"
Alexksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
The Bashkir people have been thoroughly awed, and the kirghiz, too, have had some good lessons.
"The Daughter of the Commandant"
Alexksandr Sergeevich Pushkin