Use boer in a sentence
Sentences starting with boer
- Boer loss--if any--not stated. [5]
- Boer loss, 8 killed, 9 wounded--17. [5]
- Boer loss, 1 killed, 5 wounded. [5]
- Boer loss, so far as known, 23 men. [5]
- Boer loss, "trifling. [5]
Sentences ending with boer
- What sort of thing has been given away to Brother Boer? [11]
- Laws heavily taxing the intruder and overlooking the Boer? [5]
- These statistics show that a reinforcement of 300 Johannesburgers, armed merely with muskets, would have killed, at the outside, only a little over a half of another Boer. [5]
- The Briton should have done one thing or the other: discarded British methods and fought the Boer with Boer methods, or augmented his own force until--using British methods--it should be large enough to equalize results with the Boer. [5]
- If I could get the management of one of those campaigns, I would know what to do, for I have studied the Boer. [5]
- I am half Boer. [11]
- Boer. [5]
- A Boer? [11]
Sentences containing boer two or more times
- There are wise men in the Boer government, and that accounts for the modification; the modification of the Boer mass has probably not begun yet. [5]
- In Jameson's battles, as per Boer official report, the Boer loss in killed was 4. [5]
More example sentences with the word boer in them
- Those are truly wonderful diamonds, whether they exist or not; and yet they are of but little importance by comparison with the one wherewith the Boer wagoner chocked his wheel on that steep grade as heretofore referred to. [5]
- The Boer government was scared, and it had a right to be. [5]
- I would have told him that 300 Boer sharpshooters behind rocks would be an overmatch for his 500 raw young fellows on horseback. [5]
- That was the third Boer victory. [5]
- For a moment they stood looking at the great camp far away to right and left, and to the lone mountains yonder, where the Boer commandoes held the passes and trained their merciless armament upon all approaches. [11]
- Byng has turned the tide by turning the Boer flank. [11]
- Jameson shot at the ridges and rocks with his artillery, just as General Colley had done at the Nek; and did them no damage and persuaded no Boer to show himself. [5]
- As he left the hospital, he heard a wounded Boer prisoner say to a Tommy who had fought with him on opposite sides in the same engagement, "Alles zal recht kom! [11]
- In the column the feeling grew that unless it could burst through the Boer lines at this point it was done for. [5]
- I am for the Boer, for Oom Paul. [11]
- Mr. Garrett shows that the Boer force immediately opposed to Jameson was 2,000, and that there were 6,000 more on hand by the evening of the second day. [5]
- In the train that day a passenger told me some more about Boer life out in the lonely veldt. [5]
- They have to swear allegiance to the Boer government, and distribute cavalry horses to the rebels. [5]
- I would move surreptitiously by night to a point about a quarter of a mile from the Boer camp, and there I would build up a pyramid of biltong and Bibles fifty feet high, and then conceal my men all about. [5]
- There is a story, which may not be true, about an ignorant Boer farmer there who thought that this white flag was the national flag of England. [5]
- Thinking only that some daring Boer was doing the thing with a thousand odds against him, they roared approval as the gun came nearer and nearer. [11]
- But he was shot as he tried to reach the Boer lines. [11]
- Just as the rifle of his giant foe swung above him, Byng realized that the third Boer was levelling a rifle directly at his breast. [11]
- The Boer chief resolved to retreat--up that mountain. [5]
- England listened to reason, and recognized the Boer Republic--a government which has never been in any really awful danger since, until Jameson started after it with his 500 "raw young fellows. [5]
- Was he in our lines--a Boer spy? [11]
- After the seizure of the Transvaal and the suppression of the Boer government by England in 1877, the Boers fretted for three years, and made several appeals to England for a restoration of their liberties, but without result. [5]
- If the heads of the Boer government had not been wise men they would have hanged Jameson, and thus turned a very commonplace pirate into a holy martyr. [5]
- It spread the news of his invasion far and wide, and a few hours after his start the Boer farmers were riding hard from every direction to intercept him. [5]
- In the Boer loss, also, historical precedent is followed with sufficient fidelity. [5]
- Standing there, he looked at the Boer with hard eyes. [11]
- Mr. Gray had just arrived, and the warden, a genial, elderly Boer named Du Plessis--explained that his orders wouldn't allow him to admit saint and sinner at the same time, particularly on a Sunday. [5]
- That was Monday; it was then that he received his first warning from a Boer source not to violate the friendly soil of the Transvaal. [5]
- I believe that in the next chapter my notion of the Boer was rightly conceived. [5]
- Get the horses in the lee of the kopje, and we'll see what Brother Boer thinks of us after breakfast. [11]
- Besides, I hope I am mistaken; for, if I am, then there is argument that the Reformers were privately not serious, but were only trying to scare the Boer government into granting the desired reforms. [5]
- The Boer president handed them over to the English Government for punishment, and they received varying sentences, but all were eventually released. [5]
- In Kimberley I had some conversation with the man who saw the Boer do that--an incident which had occurred twenty-seven or twenty-eight years before I had my talk with him. [5]
- Not a shot had been fired, and there would certainly have been firing if the Boer had known; for he could not allow the Rooinek to get to the point where his own position would be threatened or commanded. [11]
- The Boer was gone, but the wife was still at his side. [5]
- His lads had fought valorously, but had not been able to get near enough to a Boer to kick him around the Transvaal. [5]
- They have to forbid overt acts against the Boer government, and distribute arms to its enemies. [5]
- We and the English have these latter; but as we lack the great bulk of these others, I think the Boer civilization is the best of the two. [5]
- He is an English Afrikander; is an old resident, and has a Boer wife. [5]
- An imperial policy does not necessarily imply such vagaries as the forcible detention of the forcibly annexed Boer republic. [4]
- The Boer's farm does not go to another Boer when he loses it, but to a foreigner. [5]
- It also earnestly desires that the inhabitants shall refrain from overt acts against the Boer government. [5]
- When the forces crept forward again, it was as infantrymen, moving five paces apart, and feeling their way up to the Boer trenches. [11]
- His own pistol brought down the old Boer who had felled Byng, and then he realized who it was had cried out, "Baas! [11]
- He found the Boers encamped in a strong and sheltered position on high ground at Laing's Nek--every Boer behind a rock. [5]
- First catch your Boer, then kick him. [5]
- But here the Boer in his burrow with his mauser rifle roaring, and his heart fierce with hatred and anger at the surprise, laid down to the bloody work with an ugly determination to punish remorselessly his fellow-citizens of the veld and the others. [11]
- In the 4 battles named above, the Boer loss, so far as known, was an average of 6 men per battle, to the British average loss of 175. [5]
- In the 4 battles fought in 1881 and the two fought by Jameson, the British loss in killed, wounded, and prisoners, was substantially 1,300 men; the Boer loss, as far as is ascertainable, eras about 30 men. [5]
- There was a battle forward on the left flank of the Boer Army. [11]
- They have to avoid collision with the British government, but still stand by Jameson and their new oath of allegiance to the Boer government, taken, uncovered, in presence of its flag. [5]
- Out of the agony of conflict would all come right--for Boer, for Briton, for Rudyard, for Jasmine, for himself, for Al'mah? [11]
- Did England rise against the infamy of the Boer war? [5]
- At length, with a heavy sigh, he entered the house and sat down in a great arm-chair, from which old Brinkwort the Boer had laid down the law for his people. [11]
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