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  • He said it was also likely that the construction of a small boat harbour at Eland's Bay would go ahead, although plans were at an early stage.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • Kneeling by the headless, pawless body of Eland's second beast,

    Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996

  • Last we saw of Fibel he was hooking, stretching, and running shock cord for that Horst Achtfaden back in his gliding days, Fibel who stayed on the ground, and saw his friend on to Peenem-nde-saw him on? isn't that a slice of surplus paranoia there, not quite justified is it-well, call it Toward a Case for Eland's Involvement with Achtfaden Too, if you want.

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • It's in Eland's interest to have an agent in the Berkshires, can you guess why?

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • Whilst very little active service was seen during the first year of the war, still sufficient evidence was given of Eland's ability as

    History of Kershaw's Brigade D. Augustus Dickert

  • Wednesday, August 15th (in the vicinity of Eland's River).

    A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition P. T. Ross

  • Richmond, Heidelburg, Standerton, -- where cattle rearing and horse breeding is successfully carried on, -- and Newcastle, which will be remembered as having been the base of operations during the Boer war, and also as the place where the final treaty of Peace was drawn up and signed by the joint Commission, to Eland's Laagte, the present terminus of the Natal railway, thirteen miles beyond Ladysmith.

    A Winter Tour in South Africa Frederick Young

  • Johnny looked at it, looked into Eland's lean, grimy face queerly.

    The Thunder Bird B. M. Bower 1905

  • I thought the terrible type had invented it, but Raffles gave him more than he asked, and then I held the bicycle while he tried to pronounce Eland's Laagte.

    Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman 1901

  • Hebron, Crocodile River, and Eland's River; generally with Paget, once under Colonel Plumer, and once under Hickman.

    In the Ranks of the C.I.V. Erskine Childers 1896

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