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Sentence Examples
| Pulling pre-cut thorn bushes and branches across the cave entrance, he fashioned a kraal to keep his sheep safely hidden and boxed in the cave. |
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| So at dusk I was led to a kraal where an extended Masai family greeted me with great hospitality and a selection of decorative beaded goods. |
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| Traditional dancers and choirs joined in at yesterday's Tourism Day celebrations at the royal kraal near King William's Town. |
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| The kraal for the cattle was not only suitable to us but to the hyenas as well. |
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| She said the teacher had made the school his village as he had constructed a kraal for his cattle within the school premises. |
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| Is the old Xhosa tradition of lobola going to be forgotten, and is the head of the kraal going to be two people in future? |
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| The kraal had been ripped asunder, and the ground within the rock cleft and by the cave entrance was littered with dead sheep. |
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| Villages are centered on a cattle pen called a kraal, or a community building. |
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| I cannot put the cattle back into the kraal so early in the day! |
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| Raise your war cries, brothers, for though they made us leave our assegais in the kraal, our voices are left with our bodies. |
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| Even in a primitive kraal a savage knows that he is a member of a community and is obliged to be loyal to it. |
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| Customarily, at a chief's kraal a child is not brought for trial without parents. |
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| A kraal was a homestead and usually included a simple fenced-in enclosure for animals, fields for growing crops, and one or more thatched huts. |
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| Before leaving his house to go to the kraal the inkosi had to eat a little porridge. |
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| On a typical homestead there are a few houses, a little kraal with cows tethered to wooden posts, and on the corner is a toilet, also constructed of local shrubs. |
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| These are gathering crust in the fenced kraal of the European Commission, occasionally visited, without much effect, by the Trade Commissioner, Peter Mandelson. |
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| We interviewed school children, teachers, kraal heads, councillors, village members, church leaders, civil servants, DDF staff, business men and women. |
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| A cockney in a rural village was stared at as much as if he had entered a kraal of Hottentots. |
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| The animal, which is now six years old, was born naturally from the mating of a female goat with a male sheep sharing the same kraal. |
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| In another incident, a young family servant, who thought Tolkien a beautiful child, took the baby to his kraal to show him off, returning him the next morning. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| When trekking from the old kraal, they had brought with them a small bag of maize. |
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| The lion was traced to a grove of trees, about a mile and a half from the kraal. |
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| I know that, for Kama was in the Basuto kraal when they returned, and heard their tale. |
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| The animals, when they heard the cry, ran to the kraal and killed the duiker. |
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| They put fat in the kraal a third time, and appointed the duiker to be the keeper of the gate. |
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| They made a stretcher of boughs and carried me for some miles to their kraal inland. |
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| It was the kraal of the old white-tufted shangaan, as Shadrach learned afterwards. |
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| Among the killed was Captain Haynes, shot while escalading the wall of Makonis head kraal. |
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| He lost it, as the brigadier had foreseen, in the vicinity of Abraham's kraal. |
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| But King dacha was so furiously enraged, he could neither stay in his kraal nor allow Isaaco to take leave. |
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| Then he stalked out of the hut, and leaving the three guards at the gate, commanded a company of soldiers to surround the kraal and fire it. |
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| I was busy all the afternoon in cutting 'wait-a-bit' thorns for a kraal. |
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| This man and three others attacked a soldier of that kraal who defended his wife and children. |
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| And now I will drive my waggons hence and outspan them outside the kraal. |
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| Their outspan was some three or four hundred yards distant from the kraal. |
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| At night, Toro joins the rest of the cattle in the kraal, a wooden enclosure in which cattle are sheltered. |
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| Then they cried aloud in terror, saying that the ghosts were on them, and turned to flee to the north gate of the kraal. |
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| When we reached our kraal once more, Chaka summoned that regiment and mustered it. |
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| Now after this, I, Mopo, bade Umslopogaas stay at home within the kraal, and not lead his sister to the wilds. |
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| Meanwhile, the captain asked the headman of the kraal if he knew anything of such a youth as him for whom they sought. |
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| We must take the child to the kraal, and give it up to them. |
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| The two were strolling up and down outside Nondwana's kraal. |
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| I announced my intentions to the head man of the kraal, who was delighted. |
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| I heard that Wambe had a stockade round his kraal made of elephant tusks. |
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| The two children had wandered far from the kraal, seeking certain berries that little ones love. |
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| Now, when Umslopogaas and Jikiza the Unconquered had come to the cattle kraal, they were set in its centre and there were ten paces between them. |
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| Shall reach Dirk's kraal at Ekowe, in Zululand, before night. |
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| Three full companies leapt forward at his word, and ran after him through the gates of the kraal Umgugundhlovu, heading for the Ghost Mountain. |
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| The Kaffirs of the kraal we had impressed to assist at once. |
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| And here it may be stated that on the eleventh day of his sojourn at the kraal of Zweete, those whom he sent returned with the oxen, except the three only. |
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| A bull moves from kraal to kraal, mating with heifers and cows. |
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| Then we saw that the kraal to which the gardens belonged was burnt down. |
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| Her mother, Macropha, my wife, was of Swazi blood, and was brought to the king's kraal with other captives after a raid, and given to me as a wife by the king. |
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