Tribesmen

Yemeni television broadcast a phoned statement from Saleh late Friday in which he called tribesmen who are battling government forces in the capital a "gang that has nothing to do with the youth revolution." ❋ Unknown (2011)

Pakistan's Afghan-border region — 1,000 miles long and 100 miles wide — is a deathly volcanic landscape of crags and winding canyons where the tropical floor of the Subcontinent pushes upward into the high, shaved wastes of Central Asia, and where desert and mountain tribesmen replace the darker-skinned people in the cities. ❋ Unknown (2000)

Another problem, he said, was that nomadic Bedouin tribesmen who may have information of value are difficult to find. ❋ Unknown (1991)

The Plain of Jars region of Laos had only two months prior been taken over by Lao tribesmen from the communists. ❋ Unknown (1990)

The Browns said their son would not share details of his missions, but he frequently expressed concern for the mountain tribesmen who fought alongside Special Forces troops. ❋ Unknown (1967)

So he called the tribesmen and gave the signal for preparations to depart. ❋ T. Everett Harr�� (N/A)

But old Kovudoo was not to be so easily robbed of the ransom which the girl represented, and seeing that their attack which had up to now resulted in a series of individual combats with the white warrior, he called his tribesmen off, and forming them in a compact body about the girl and the two who watched over her bid them do nothing more than repel the assaults of the ape-man. ❋ Unknown (1915)

On Friday, tribesmen from the southern province of Shebwa said they had taken control of 17 military bases abandoned by counterterrorism units belonging to the Central Security forces, which are commanded by President Saleh's nephew. ❋ Hakim Almasmari (2011)

Close to the encampment of the tribesmen were the fires of a group of Britons -- members of fierce tribes who lived south of the Roman Wall but who dwelt in the hills and forests to the west and defied the power of Rome. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2005)

And knew that the red-haired jade who had come to 'warn' him of the tribesmen was the Red Hawk. ❋ Jordan, Robert (1982)

All these he'd murdered, once Alexander was gone; and was calling his tribesmen out to fight for Bessos. ❋ Renault, Mary (1972)

The difficult language and peculiar characters of the tribesmen are the study of a lifetime. ❋ Winston S. Churchill (1919)

Pilgrims, called his tribesmen to a war of extermination which brought the strength of all New England to the field and ended in his own destruction. ❋ Mary Ritter Beard (1917)

They shot him at Monastir; skilfully took advantage of the fact that the tribesmen were at Ferizovich; called on them to save the country, and explained that something called Constitution was the only way by which it could be done. ❋ Mary Edith (1909)