Literary notes about nomadic (AI summary)
In literature, the term "nomadic" is often employed to convey a sense of transience and freedom, as well as the inherent challenges of a life without fixed boundaries. Authors use it to describe societies and lifestyles defined by continual movement, whether referring to historical tribes with shifting abodes ([1], [2], [3]), or to characters and settings that embody an unanchored, almost romantic existence ([4], [5], [6]). It can also serve as a contrast to settled agricultural or urban life, highlighting cultural tensions and transitions between stability and wanderlust ([7], [8], [9]). This versatile adjective not only paints vivid portraits of people’s daily lives but also symbolizes broader social and philosophical explorations of order versus chaos.
- The inhabitants of Fezzan number about thirty-five thousand, and a nomadic or wandering population of perhaps nine or ten thousand.
— from The World and Its People, Book VII: Views in Africa by Anna B. Badlam - From very remote times, it appears to have been a settlement of nomadic tribes.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Marco Polo and da Pisa Rusticiano - The 6 Apache, for the most part, remained nomadic predators, living off nature’s bounty, or better still, raiding the pueblos for food.
— from Mosaic of New Mexico's Scenery, Rocks, and History - A ROMANTIC AND NOMADIC YOUTH Anything that bordered on the romantic and nomadic style of life had an especial fascination for me.
— from Adventures and Recollections by Bill o'th' Hoylus End - De Quincey loved the shiftless, nomadic life, and gloried in uncertainties and peradventures.
— from The Vagabond in Literature by Arthur Compton-Rickett - The nomadic instinct can not be educated out of an Indian at all.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain - The Canaanites had long since left behind them the nomadic state and had developed a strong agricultural and commercial civilization.
— from Twelve Studies on the Making of a Nation: The Beginnings of Israel's History by Jeremiah Whipple Jenks - Demeter, however, by introducing a knowledge of agriculture, put an end, at once and for ever, to that nomadic life which was now no longer necessary.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens - The feudal ownership of land did bring dignity, whereas the modern ownership of movables is reducing us again to a nomadic horde.
— from Howards End by E. M. Forster
