All four askaris then came forward and lifted my husband back on to the bed.
The askaris fired at him, but did no damage beyond frightening him away again for a moment or two.
After inquiries as to what kind of Askaris he had, etc.
They could not tell me how many white men or Askaris there were, as they had not waited to see.
On reaching the halting-place after our first day's canoeing, we were horrified to find that our ten Askaris and the cook had bolted, leaving their rifles and bayonets on the path.
Then we ordered the askaris to clear camp and to keep it clear.
The askaris could not hit a barn, but they could make a noise.
The askaris had built a little campfire out in front.
On the other side of it stood one of our askaris leaning on his musket.
The rear, the very extreme and straggling rear, was brought up by worthless porters with loads of cornmeal-and the weary askaris whose duty it was to keep astern and herd the lot in.
The interrogation did not amount to much, but while it was going on the Sudanese headman and his askaris were quietly searching the boys' quarters.
Then M'ganga or one of the askaris lifted up his voice.
There is now no need for headmen and askaris to handle this little lot.
But any more serious matter should be decided from the throne of the canvas chair, witness should be heard, judgment formally pronounced, and execution intrusted to the askaris or gunbearers.
The armed askaris loitered between the balance of the safari and the Arab village, ready to form a rear guard for the retreat that was to begin the moment that the head man brought that which the white masters awaited.
Five minutes later the safari of Jenssen and Malbihn was forcing its way rapidly toward the west, nervous askaris guarding the rear from the attack they momentarily expected.
Instantly theaskaris and the whites were on the alert.
Illustration: "John ordered his askaris to fire among the negroes on the left bank.
John withdrew the askaris who had been keeping guard, and the women, on being told that they might go, fled away up the hill like a flock of sheep.
When all was ready, the men set off with their loads, Coja and two askaris with rifles going ahead.
Immediately afterwards John ordered his askaris to fire among the negroes on the left bank; but these were somewhat remoter from the river, and he could not learn that any of the shots took effect.
Then, at his word, they dashed after him from cover, yelling at the top of their voices, the askaris firing their rifles as they ran, and reloading.
The bastions were instantly manned, John taking post in one and Ferrier in the other, dividing the askaris equally between them.
When I got your message, as the enemy were very quiet I sent Coja and one of my askaris out to see if they could spy out where you were; and what do you think--Said Mohammed insisted on going too.
Coja and two or three of the askaris can escort the convoy.
Behind him came in order four askaris carrying rifles: then the twelve men with the ammunition and the assortment of oddments found in the fort; then six men bearing in litters three others whose wounds prevented them from marching.
Two Askaris had been posted as sentries, but they, too, were lax, little thinking that there was any danger of a surprise.
The Askaris were numerically far stronger than Wilmshurst's platoon, but the Haussas had a great advantage--that of being the surprising force.
The Askaris for the most part attempted to bolt, but finding their retreat cut off, grovelled in the dust.
The clearness of the atmosphere rendered his task lighter, while the change of weather would tend to keep the Askaris within their lines.
Overtaking and avoiding numbers of wounded Askaris and a fair sprinkling of Germans painfully making their way back to their lines the raiders covered the intervening eight hundred yards in double time.
There were hundreds of footprints all around; those of Askaris and Germans, for none of the imprints of booted feet bore any resemblance to those of Robert MacGregor.
For a quarter of an hour the one-sided action was maintained, then still under the covering fire of the machine gun a battalion of Askaris advanced at the double in company formation en échelon.
The Askaris broke and fled, leaving a third of their number on the ground, while those who had gained a footing within the kraal lost heart and threw down their arms.
The rest of the party, including Wilmshurst, had hurried off to reinforce the sorely-tried men engaged hand to hand with the Askaris in the breach.
Already a formidable number of Askaris had broken through the stubbornly-defended palisade, and by sheer weight were forcing their opponents back.
According to previous arrangements I fell in with Hauptmann Schmidt's company, and he obligingly set a squad of his Askaris to work to stage the last stand of Scout MacGregor.
Of the six Askaris forming the detachment five dropped at the first volley; the sixth, after first rolling on the ground, sprang into the bush, followed by a couple of shots the effect of which was not known.
All but surrounded, the Askaris just managed to escape being captured to a man, and now, temporarily safe from pursuit, the regiment had arrived at a prepared position to await another column known to be retiring in a north-westerly direction.
The Arabs had collected in a comparatively clear space within the forest, and as the charging Askaris came upon them they parted into two bands, which moved away from each other as though to take the attacking party on both flanks.
Just as the Askaris reached the utmost verge of cover, and stood for an instant to take breath after their climb, one of the Arabs gleefully pointed to the scouts returning over the bridge.
Askaris and carriers tramped on in single file, the Zanzibaris chattering and laughing in spite of the loads on their heads, it being one of the crosses of the major's existence that their tongues were never still.
The most of them fell prone; a few, with desperate courage, came on till the Askaris could almost feel their breath; then cold steel completed what the bullet had begun.
Then came the advance-guard, two companies of Askaris and a Maxim-gun, with Captain Lister.
The Arabs broke and scattered, and the headstrong Askaris dashed after them in mad pursuit.
Zu Pfeiffer rose, took up his gold-mounted sjambok, and the two walked around the big marquee to the front where between the orderly lines of huts those askaris not on duty were drawn up for inspection.
The round mud huts of the askaris were like two columns of khaki troops marching rigidly on each side of the parade ground.
The askaris were massacred to a man before the sun rose inquiringly beyond the sacred hill of Kawa Kendi.
Forms of askaris scurrying to their places round the fence brushed by him on every side.
Almost had he begun to curse the askaris for being so slow, when a rifle cracked and a bullet hummed over his head.
If he won’t give it up let the askaris deal with him.
The huddled lines of huts which had been barracks were already in process of demolition at the hands of the slaves, and the square within the fort was cleared of the slain askaris by the simple process of heaving the bodies over the palisade.
Hand to hand was the fighting, spear and sword against bayonet and rifle around the idol, the askaris outyelling the warriors.
The three companies ofaskaris fell in, marched down to the bayou and embarked without fuss or confusion, each group under a non-commissioned officer to the appointed canoe.
Upon the hill of MKoffo was a palisade enclosing the barracks of two companies of the askaris and two guns.
From the rear of the Residence marched with stiff-legged precision a squad of askaris and the stocky figure of a non-commissioned officer in a white helmet.
The capture by the askaris had made but little difference to her, for, as she phrased it, the beak of her soul was like unto the mouth of the crocodile.
Apart from seeing that the men of their own companies do their work, the duties of the askaris are various.
Ten rounds per man is enough for porters; the headman and askaris can each have twenty rounds, and these can be issued to them before leaving the coast.
If there is not a rifle, belt and pouch for every porter in the caravan after the headman and askaris have received theirs, the rest should be equally distributed amongst the companies.
This would save a good deal of grumbling and discontent amongst the porters, as it would prevent the askaris from taking advantage of them by piling their private kits and food on to the load of a porter already heavily laden.
As these Bura natives are a bad lot and great thieves, and as they are sure to demand payment in advance and will not stir till they get it, the askaris should be told to keep a sharp look-out to prevent any of them bolting.
This bush-work is very trying, as the German black askaris are very much better at it than heavily equipped white men, many of whom have always lived in towns before coming out here.
Our riflemen were firing at individual askaris (were they all askaris, and not unhappy villagers?
I don't believe for one,' he went on, 'that Saint Michael is passionately interested in wiping out either English or askaris or Germans.
The askaris threw this monstrosity upon his face before Lilla's chair.
The askaris kept double guard; but at dawn eleven of the porters were missing.
There was a rush of feet, a scuffle in the bushes, and two askaris advanced into the firelight, dragging between them a creature that they seemed to have plucked out of some grotesque dream.
The askaris alone, the lean, khaki-clad Somalia, remained indifferent to this atmosphere of disquiet that was more debilitating to the porters than the fever-laden mists.
Behind her the rest of the askaris herded along the porters.
The sick man was unconscious when they sent him off, in the machilla, toward Fort Pero d'Anhaya, with three of the askaris and fifteen of the porters.
He raised the curtain, and stalked away through the camp, clashing superbly between the fires, while the clustered askaris and porters regarded him dismally.
She saw one of the leading askaris kneel down and stretch himself upon his face, as if trying to press against the ground a thin shaft that seemed to be lying crosswise under his chest.
For the rampart of askaris had become a circle of dead men, expressing with their last gestures a deep desire to be remerged with this rich, dark, ancient earth.
On each side of her tent a clump of askaris stood leaning on their rifles.
Askaris led the way, Somalis in claret-colored fezzes and khaki uniforms, bare legged, with bandoliers across their chests and rifles over their shoulders.
One could never tell what was likely to come into one's tent at night, even with armed askaris patrolling the camp all night long.
Porters are busily making up their packs and the head-man with the askaris are busy directing them.
At ten o'clock we had our dinner and at eleven we put on our pajamas and with the camp-fire burning before the tent and the armed askaris pacing back and forth, gave ourselves up to lazy talk, then meditation and then sound sleep.
Some bodies of Askaris have been washed up from the river," the doctor informed him, "and two of your ponies have been eaten by lions.
I took some new Askaris in and they made trouble,--looted the stores one night and there was the devil to pay.
But the drums were so thunderous and the shrill fifes so lusty that the askaris could not hear conversation pitched in low tones.
Schubert was standing in mid-square with a hundredaskaris lined up two-deep in front of him.
Extra askaris had been sent for in order that proceedings might not be delayed, and the audience could scarcely hear the evidence and sentences because of the crack of whips and the moans of victims.
Until the prisoners are all locked in--that is to say, in case of fire in the daytime--six or eightaskaris remain inside the boma.
The unfortunate Kazimoto was pounced on by two askaris and thrown face-downward on the floor.
There were strict orders against talking, and four askarisarmed with rifles marched behind to enforce the rule as well as keep guard over Brown.
On complaint by the askaris that a man on the chain has shirked his work, or answered back, or been obstreperous, the doctor serves him out a handful of strong pills and sees him swallow them.
The square was a dense sea of people before nine o'clock, and the askaris made the front few hundreds lie, and the next rows squat, in order that the men and women behind might see.
I made up my mind the man was going to be killed, for Schubert gave no order and the askaris did not dare stop without one.
The askaris will search your belongings thoroughly to make sure they have all your weapons.
Within thirty seconds the askaris on guard at the boma began firing their rifles in the air as fast as they could pull the trigger and reload.
A great crowd began gathering about the tree, and was presently driven by askaris with whips into a mass on the far side of the tree from us.
He had retired immediately after the hanging to sleep off the effects of his debauch, and being now deprived of that luxury arrived between two askarisin a volcanic temper.
We pledge ourselves to act as true Government askaris until they return.
We have heard that Indian askaris have been sent to fight for us in Europe.
Some thirty yards in advance of the edge of the forest, on the level of the ground, he saw the heads of several askaris moving up and down.
The game he had killed had been cut up; the two askaris had been sent back to hasten the march of the porters.
If Reinecke once rejoined the askaris waiting in the defile nothing could avail to check him.
At first, when he practised his men in the nullah, the askaris looked on with disdain, and roared with laughter at the mistakes made by the negroes.
Tom posted his men along the inner side of the barricade, ordered them to kneel, pass the muzzles of their rifles through the brushwood, and fire at the legs of the enemy askaris when he gave the word.
But his new-born confidence in his askaris led him to adopt the bold course of leaving them to defend the southern end of the nullah.
Abruptly the sounds ceased, and Tom could not help chuckling as he saw in his mind's eye the blank faces of the askaris when they found their entrance into the forest unopposed.
Just before they reached the bridge they stepped into the road, and were joined by two more askaris who had emerged from the bush on the other side.
Tom found the askaris useful in the course of his various exercises.
The German askaris in the ravine above had almost certainly heard the shouts which had greeted his arrival.
The askaris there, taken aback by this sudden charge of an enemy who had hitherto stood wholly on the defensive, had no ears for the commands of their German lieutenant.
Tom sprinted across the few yards of open ground, dashed into the bush, and ran, at first blindly, for he heard the askaris close behind: one or two of them were shooting at random in the hope of hitting him as he ran.
On this road they met a half company of askaris marching towards Bismarckburg.
Here he disinterred the bodies of a dozen German askaris and found upon their uniforms the insignia of the company and regiment to which they had belonged.
His black Askaris are not discouraged, and, in this war, the black man is keeping up the courage of the white.
Down with a great bump on the ground dropped the startled Hun, and the Askaris fled to the jungle leaving their chop boxes lying on the road.
Burning by fever by day, chilled by tropic dews at night, these poor devils had been harried and kicked and cursed and ill-used by Askaris and insulted by native porters all that long retreat from Moschi to Kissaki and beyond.
So with many tears of relief they cast friendly Death into the bushes as the Askaris fled before the dust of our approaching columns.
For at a turn of the road the advance guard perceived a large number of Askaris and several white men collected about one of our telegraph posts, while, up the post, upon the cross trees, was a white man, busily engaged with the wires.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "askaris" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
