Sample Sentences forBoer (auto-selected)
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That afternoon I knocked on Mrs. De Boer's door.† (source)
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I want to take the man from the Boer War and the pile of rags in the bed and put them in a big sunny house in the country with birds chirping away outside the window and a stream gurgling.† (source)
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Not only was it alleged that the manoeuvre had been a most un-British attack on civilian Boer settlements, overwhelming evidence emerged that it had been irresponsibly commanded with several floutings of elementary military precautions, so that the men who had died — my brother among them — had died quite needlessly.† (source)
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It has taken more than fifty years for the scars of the South African [Anglo-Boer] War to disappear.† (source)
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Having first knelt down and peered under the doors of all the cubicles to make absolutely certain we were alone and could not be overheard, he explained in an agonized whisper that I must never, on pain of banishment, address the Deputy as anything but "Chief," or, barring that, by his Boer War title of "Colonel."† (source)
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I recollect that I was a fervent pacifist myself once, in the Boer War, when my own country was the aggressor, and a young woman blew a squeaker at me on Mafeking Night.† (source)
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I had an uncle who was a colonel in the Boer War.† (source)
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For two or three weeks nothing happened; the Boers would not understand that they were beaten and nothing remained for them but to surrender: in fact they had one or two small successes, and Philip's shares fell half a crown more.† (source)
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Piet Wetjoen, the Boer, is in his fifties, a huge man with a bald head and a long grizzled beard.† (source)
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He must let no feeble feelings of mercy (sneaked from the sickening Little Englanders and Pro-Boers) prevent him from trying to do his best.† (source)
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Welcome was the sight of the boer which was hospitably opened to receive us.† (source)
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The news that came from South Africa was less reassuring, and Philip with anxiety saw that his shares had fallen to two; but Macalister was optimistic, the Boers couldn't hold out much longer, and he was willing to bet a top-hat that Roberts would march into Johannesburg before the middle of April.† (source)
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Even the Bible—the Dutch Bible that Charles had brought back from the Boer War—fell into position.† (source)
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LEWIS—(ignoring him) Good strategy, no doubt, but a suspicion grew afterwards into a conviction among the Boers that the officer's caution was prompted by a desire to make his personal escape.† (source)
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He had explored in Brazil, seen service in the Boer War, hunted in India and Africa—matters of experience of which he never spoke.† (source)
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The Boers were the beginning of the end.† (source)
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