Nogay

I yelled over my shoulder for the Nogay boy whose sun-browned face displayed the stolid features of his Mongol forebears.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

I yelled over my shoulder for the Nogay boy whose sun-browned face displayed the stolid features of his Mongol forebears.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

Once again, I left the shop in the hands of my Nogay helper and walked up the main street.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

Once again, I left the shop in the hands of my Nogay helper and walked up the main street.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

Riding through the steppe for about six miles, they passed nothing but one Nogay tent, placed on a cart and moving slowly along at a distance of about a mile from them.

The Cossacks 2003

‘We were bargaining for one beyond the river the other day and they would not take sixty rubles for it, though it is a Nogay horse.’

The Cossacks 2003

One saw the blood-red troughs in the pent-houses in the yards and Nogay labourers with their trousers rolled up and their legs stained with the juice.

The Cossacks 2003

Once, towards evening, the Nogay driver pointed with his whip to the mountains shrouded in clouds.

The Cossacks 2003

Three miles beyond the village the steppe spread out and nothing was visible except the dry, monotonous, sandy, dismal plain covered with the footmarks of cattle, and here and there with tufts of withered grass, with low reeds in the flats, and rare, little-trodden footpaths, and the camps of the nomad Nogay tribe just visible far away.

The Cossacks 2003

Though firmly convinced that labour is degrading to a Cossack and is only proper for a Nogay labourer or a woman, he is vaguely aware of the fact that all he makes use of and calls his own is the result of that toil, and that it is in the power of the woman (his mother or his wife) whom he considers his slave, to deprive him of all he possesses.

The Cossacks 2003