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  • I have since seen these statues, which at the time of writing this, six months after the battle, are nearly finished; and very beautiful they are, especially that of Umslopogaas, which is exactly like him.

    Allan Quatermain Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • Robeson plays Umbopa, the Umslopogaas character renamed possibly for easier pronunciation by the other actors.

    Allan Quatermain Hollywood Style Dark Worlds Club 2009

  • But the prize-ring is a little too near as yet to offer unimpeachable matter for romance; and people who can read of the bloodthirsty Umslopogaas and his semi-comic holocausts with an unshaken stomach, or feel a placid historic pleasure in the chronicles of Nero's eccentricities, will find

    My Contemporaries In Fiction David Christie Murray

  • Limpopos and Umslopogaas, clad in gorgeous scarlet feathers gave piquancy to the proud throng.

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

  • Uncas, Chief of the Mohicans; to have lived among wild beasts with Morok the lion tamer; to have charged with the impis of Umslopogaas; to have sailed before the mast with Vanderdecken, spent fourteen gloomy years in the next cell to Edmund Dantes, ferreted out the murders in the Rue

    The Delicious Vice Young Ewing Allison 1892

  • Umslopogaas, or any one of a thousand great fighting heroes; but here was Buffalo Bill, just as great and glorious and dashing and handsome as any of them, and my right hand tingled to be grasped in that of the

    The Delicious Vice Young Ewing Allison 1892

  • 'Art thou sure, Umslopogaas,' said I, 'that thou hast not been

    Allan Quatermain Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • We then returned to the veranda, where we found Umslopogaas taking advantage of this favourable opportunity to clean all the rifles thoroughly.

    Allan Quatermain Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • Umslopogaas moved his body but not his legs, so that the blow missed him, and next instant Inkosi-kaas crashed through headpiece, hair and skull, and the man's corpse was rattling down the steps.

    Allan Quatermain Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • The moment Umslopogaas saw the latter he stopped his bloodthirsty talk and greeted him.

    Allan Quatermain Henry Rider Haggard 1890

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