Lexicographical Neighbors of Sungars
Literary usage of Sungars
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chinese Central Asia: A Ride to Little Tibet by Henry Lansdell (1893)
"District of Kara-kur-usu ; its lakes and towns ; The imperial high road to Hami,
168.—History of the sungars, and their approximate extermination ..."
2. Chinese Central Asia: A Ride to Little Tibet by Henry Lansdell (1894)
"District of Kara-kur-usu ; its lakes and towns ; The imperial high road to Hami,
168.—History of the sungars, and their approximate extermination ..."
3. History of the Mongols: From the 9th to the 19th Century by Henry Hoyle Howorth, Ernest George Ravenstein (1876)
"... &c., north of Ili, were the ancient pastures of the sungars and ... Other sungars
and some ..."
4. The Chitral Campaign: A Narrative of Events in Chitral, Swat and Bajour by Harry Craufuird Thomson (1895)
"There was no cover of any kind on the plain, so they came full under the fire
from the sungars. The enemy's position was so strong that if they had stuck to ..."
5. The Afghan War of 1879-80 by Howard Hensman (1881)
"The enemy retreated till they reached a spur running at right-angles to the ridge
on which they had raised more strong sungars. The sepoys soon found ..."
6. Battles of the Nineteenth Century by Archibald Forbes, George Alfred Henty, Arthur Griffiths (1897)
"Their banners betrayed the sungars (breastworks of loose stone), piled along the
faces THE CHITRAL CAMPAIGN. trigue were to smite us. ..."
7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The province which had been as a fruitful field was utterly wrecked, and the
place of the sungars was taken by exiled criminals from China. ..."
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