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  • "In the whole of this savage Kaffir's letter, there is," says

    The Illustrated London Reading Book Various

  • It was only a short time ago that an elderly non-combatant complained to me when I asked if he had any wood, "No, they haf take my garten fence, my best trees, and yestertay dey haf go into my Kaffir's house and commence to pull down der wood in der roof!"

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

  • Belmont Station, and again took up a powerful position on the Kaffir's

    South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 Louis Creswicke

  • I did as I was told, and found myself looking at a dirty half-sheet of notepaper, marked by the Kaffir's thumbs.

    Prester John John Buchan 1907

  • In such a man one would have looked for a ting-kop, [1] but instead he had a mass of hair, not like a Kaffir's wool, but long and curled like some popular musician's.

    Prester John John Buchan 1907

  • They gain access to gaols and pester unfortunate prisoners with callipers and cameras, and quite unforgivable prying into personal and private matters, and they hold out great hopes that by these expedients they will evolve at last a "scientific" revival of the Kaffir's witch - smelling.

    Mankind in the Making 1906

  • His big brute face went all to bits, as a Kaffir's does when he is frightened.

    Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories Perceval Gibbon 1902

  • There was little to mark the day beyond the steady shelling of snipers by the Natal Navals, and a great 96lb. shell from Bulwan which plunged through a Kaffir house, where black labourers live stuffed together, took off a Kaffir's foot, ricocheted over our little mess-room, just glancing off the roof, and fell gasping, but still entire, beside our verandah.

    Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege Henry W. Nevinson 1900

  • Through the dulled noises of London there came to their ears the click of the wheels of a cape-wagon, the crack of the Kaffir's whip, the creak of the disselboom.

    The Judgment House Gilbert Parker 1897

  • Through the dulled noises of London there came to their ears the click of the wheels of a cape-wagon, the crack of the Kaffir's whip, the creak of the disselboom.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

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