Let's make sure all those "turbaned" animals know who's got the power. From Wordnik.com. [The Guantanamo Bay military prison meets the requirements of the Geneva Conventions.] Reference
Some of the emirs bowed their turbaned heads slightly. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
A burnoosed, turbaned Arab standing inside salaamed profoundly. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College] Reference
Three more turbaned Muslim soldiers joined those coming at Daoud. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
For a brief moment, Molly tolerated her turbaned old driver and her camel. From Wordnik.com. [Week 30: The Truth About Camels] Reference
The red-turbaned line was a little past the place where Simon had come out. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
Better for all parties concerned, that a few thousand turbaned and malignant. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
Sinan-Reis, the implacable be-turbaned old Osmanli, held him in bitter scorn. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean] Reference
Before the door, lolling in unstudied dishabille, squatted a bearded, turbaned. From Wordnik.com. [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference
As if to confirm Beg's prediction, a turbaned figure appears out of the night. From Wordnik.com. [A Tale Of Two Villages] Reference
I bought the box art, which depicts a turbaned boy clinging to a rainbow camel. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
And thus the Iron Star first warred against the turbaned warriors of the Crescent. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Star — and what It saw on Its Journey through the Ages] Reference
But the turbaned warriors do little more than gawk when Gen. Atiqullah Baryalai rolls up. From Wordnik.com. [The Ways Of A Warlord] Reference
Beleaguered, black turbaned Taliban officials tried to keep order among the surging crowd. From Wordnik.com. [Diary From Southern Afghanistan, Part 1] Reference
“Yes, yes, tell you what?” says the purple-turbaned cabbie in a laughing voice. From Wordnik.com. [Hotel Chelsea - Intercut 7] Reference
Behold me, then, dear M., well turbaned and aproned, and know that this is our churning-day. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference
Each went slowly on its way with its turbaned rider sitting still as a figure of stone on its back. From Wordnik.com. [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference
Thus was modern Sikhism born -- and with it the distinctive appearance of turbaned and hirsute Sikh males. From Wordnik.com. [Sikhs Beyond Separatism] Reference
Seminole from the proud old turbaned tribe who still dwell in the inaccessible morasses of the Everglades. From Wordnik.com. [Diane of the Green Van] Reference
His turbaned head, topped by the grotesque, glassy-eyed, glistening-toothed monster, revolved slowly as the. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Darkened Windows] Reference
A native who comes into the presence of an official must have his head turbaned and his attire in proper form. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
On hands and knees Simon stared horrified as the long line of red-turbaned riders charged at Charles's position. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
Get it right, and this junior cleric trading on the reputation of a revered father could become a turbaned has-been. From Wordnik.com. [Shadowland: Talking Points] Reference
The Afghan commander, a turbaned Uzbek with a long dark beard and the obligatory Kalashnikov slung over his shoulder, shrugged. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
But Schamyl, who had often been seen during the final conflict surrounded by his white turbaned murids, was nowhere to be found. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia] Reference
He moved about town in a battered Toyota surrounded by black-bearded, black-turbaned bodyguards, denouncing the American presence. From Wordnik.com. [Euphoria And Fear] Reference
"If I ain't a hunnard," said Nancy, nodding her white-turbaned head, "I sho 'is close to it, 'cause I got a grandson 50 years old.". From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1] Reference
Around the tents swarmed turbaned diggers, who looked as if they had come out in their night-gowns, dressing-gowns, and bath-sheets. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Arabia] Reference
“So have you been told of the Society of Darkness?” asks the purple-turbaned cabbie, whipping his cab around a light-blinking bus stopped at the curb. From Wordnik.com. [Hotel Chelsea - Intercut 7] Reference
He's a Muslim -- an Afghan-born American with a reputation for being able to work a crowd of turbaned sheiks at least as well as he works a meeting of Washington suits. From Wordnik.com. [OUR MR. FIX-IT IN IRAQ] Reference
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