umfundisi

Mr. Robertson was always called the umfundisi, or teacher.

Pioneers and Founders or, Recent Workers in the Mission field Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

Tell me, umfundisi, he said anxiously, do you think they will bear the winter for seven years?

Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton 1948

They stayed there in silence till Jarvis said, umfundisi, I must go.

Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton 1948

But even as he started to climb the path that ran through the great stones, a man on a horse was there, and a voice said to him, It is you, umfundisi?

Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton 1948

–I understand you, umfundisi, I understand you completely.

Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton 1948

I tell you, umfundisi, he said excitedly, there will be milk in this valley.

Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton 1948

He paused for a moment, and then he said, The flowers were of great beauty, umfundisi.

Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton 1948

There fell a constraint between them, until the young demonstrator said quietly, umfundisi, I work here with all my heart, is it not so?

Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton 1948

They say to me, umfundisi, that even if the winter is cold, they will not burn the dung.

Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton 1948

There was the young man from the reformatory saying with angry brows, I am sorry, umfundisi, that I spoke such angry words.

Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton 1948