A country party is wanted which can look beyond the dorp and the mine-head, and view South African interests broadly and soberly.
When the garrison left the dorp the burghers returned.
When I had done this I gave notice to the inhabitants of Bethlehem, that as the dorp would be defended, I must insist on the women and children leaving it at once.
Indeed, there was some talk of their going to the dorp for the wedding, and I wish that they had done so, for then much trouble might have been spared to us.
For, as it chanced, a doctor, and a clever one, had been sent for from the dorp to visit the wife of a neighbour who lay sick not more than twenty miles away, and we were able to summon him.
In the dorp yonder I met a man who had come from Port Elizabeth.
Some hinted that Jans Van Dorp might mean to put in execution the threat he had been so often heard to hurl at his irritating helpmate when her vexatious volubility exceeded all bounds of endurance--that he’d be off to some war.
As a matter of course, the worldly affairs of Jans Van Dorp became disjointed things.
Blinders, who had left the dorp behind them, and strolled up the almost dry bed of a sluit leading up amongst the hills, conversed, in Sabbath security from English artillery, and reassuring remoteness from Dutch eavesdroppers.
Engelsch Commandant--both in the dorpand hidden in those thrice-accursed mines that he has laid on the veld about her.
They were weary to death, and no dorpor farm was yet in sight.
Governor Dorp was himself in the fort, straining every nerve to extinguish the flames, and to hold this most important position.
Yet the fierce operations, recently recorded, having been succeeded by a period of comparative languor, Governor Dorp at last obtained permission to depart to repair his broken health.
At Louvain Erasmus was regarded with the same suspicion with which he distrusted Dorp and the other Louvain divines.
His friend Martin van Dorp upbraided him with having made a mock of eternal life.
I had given orders as soon as I arrived that no one was to visit me unless summoned by name, lest I should frighten anyone or suffer inconvenience from anyone's assiduity; but Dorp forced his way in first of all, then Ath.
But in spite of rumours of the plague and his warnings, first Dorp and afterwards also Ath came, at once, to visit him.
Martin Dorp, a Dutchman like himself, had not been estranged from him by their polemics about the Moria; his good will was of great importance to Erasmus, because of the important place Dorp occupied in the theological faculty.
His friend Dorp and James Latomus, also one of the chief divines, had expressed themselves in the same sense, and the Carmelite Nicholas of Egmond had said that he had never read Erasmus's work.
Footnote 150: The Oude Dorp (Old Town or Old Village) stood near the present South Beach on the east side of the island.
On Wednesday (November 29th) a friend and I went into the 'Dorp and got a few stores (alas!
The snipers followed us about half the distance to the dorp and we had quite a warm little rearguard action.
This is far more select, this dorp academy, with its elect Principal and its supermen-managers.
He was shaking his fist towards the prim little dorp that we had left behind over the ridges.
Who wants that moldy stuffy old feed, isn't it parabolic of that fusty Dutch-Anglo dorp and its prejudices?
These were so often Van Duyn's guests in summer that the necessary conferences with them could be had at Dorp House without observation, whereas any meeting in town would have set tongues wagging.
We are still at Dorp House, and do not leave for some days yet.
Dorp House was within easy reach of the city, so that no business obstacle interposed.
I have a piece of waste on the dorp road, near the spruit,' answered Kornel.
He was barely a man when he would ride on to thedorp and its saloons, and in time he was there oftener and oftener, drinking and soiling his hands with all the strange foulness of life the English bring with them.
The plot was a slope from the edge of the dorp to the little spruit, not fenced nor sundered in any way from the squalid brick which houses the lower end of Dopfontein.
In particular, she could not learn to make cheese, and spoilt enough milk to feed a dorp on.
But Voss (that was the name of my husband's uncle) cared nothing so long as there was a horse to ride into the dorp on and some money to buy whiskey with.
He is riding in advance of the General, so as to make arrangements for the accommodation of Sir Garnet and his whole staff, who will be staying in this dorp for some considerable time.
At one time, during the long protracted struggle between the Free State farmers and the Basutos, Conway was commandant of a small Dutch dorp situated close to the border which, like all other Free State villages, during war-time was laagered.
My word, if the General and the remainder of the staff drink tea like the Colonel, and are half as drouthy, they will drink the dorp dry in less than a week.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dorp" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
