Ostyaks
- plural of Ostyak.
Example Sentences
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The Samoyedes inhabit tents made of reindeer skins, such as the Ostyaks used to live in.
From Far Off by Mortimer, Favell Lee
But though the Ostyaks are poor, they possess a great treasure in their dogs, for these creatures are as useful as horses, and much more sensible.
From Far Off by Mortimer, Favell Lee
ERMAN, on the fat-tailed Kirghisian sheep. -on the dogs of the Ostyaks.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Darwin, Charles
He wishes the Ostyaks to belong to the Greek church, and he has tried to bribe them with presents of cloth to be baptized; and a good many have been baptized.
From Far Off by Mortimer, Favell Lee
The Ostyaks have another, and a greater treasure than dogs; they have reindeer.
From Far Off by Mortimer, Favell Lee
