He was the personal gunbearer of a Mr. Twigg, who very courteously loaned him for this trip as possessing some knowledge of the country.
My head gunbearerand I had crossed and were walking down in the grass at one side.
The second gunbearer was the first to locate him, and he signaled for me to come over on his side of the creek.
I had no gun, having left it with my gunbearer when I took the picture.
My second gunbearer was on the opposite side, and the stillness of death hung over the burning plain.
Then, almost beneath my feet, came the angry and ominous growl, and my Somali gunbearer leaped in terror, falling as he did so.
There frequently is no time for turning around, and so the first gunbearer is at your elbow with the barrel of one rifle pressed against your right leg that you may know that he is there.
My Somali gunbearer was eagerly pointing toward a lone tree that stood a hundred yards off to the left.
The second gunbearer was instructed to set fire to the grass in the hope of awakening some protest from the lion in case he was still in the vicinity.
The gunbearer has instructions never to fire unless his master is disarmed and down before the charge of a beast.
The grass fire that the second gunbearer had started was sweeping the prairie, fanned by a strong wind, and there seemed to be not only the danger of abandoning the lion, but of being forced to flee before the flames.
My gunbearer took the picture, and when it was developed there was only a part of the lion and part of the lion slayer visible.
The duty of the gunbearer is always to be with you when you are hunting, to carry your gun, and to have it in your hand the instant it is needed.
The gunbearer gets our two favorite rifles and cameras, field-glasses and water bottles.
In addition, you supply your gunbearerwith a cartridge belt, a leather or canvas carrying bag, water bottle for him and for yourself, a sheath knife and a whetstone.
He was a gunbearer; and he considered that a good gunbearerstood quite a few notches above any other human being, save always the white man, of course.
Except in the greatest emergencies a gunbearer would never think of carrying any sort of a burden.
This requires that your gunbearer should be an expert trailer, for, outside the fact that following a soft-padded animal over all sorts of ground is a very difficult thing to do, the hunter should be free to spy ahead.
A gunbearer carries the gun away from the branches," was my only comment.
If the gunbearer has the gun, HE must first react to pass it up, the master must receive it properly, and THEN, and not until then, may go on from where the other man began.
It should be here explained that it is not customary to kiboko, or flog, men of the gunbearer class.
In close quarters the gunbearer has the hardest job in the world.
At the bottom of the valley we left the horses and porters; lined up, each with his gunbearer at his elbow; and advanced on the enemy.
This courage is always remarkable to me, even in the case of the gunbearer who knows all about the man whose heels he follows.
You rarely want more than that; and if you do, your gunbearer is supplied.
The East African gunbearer has a quite proper and gratifying, but most astonishing horror for a suspicion of rust; and to use oil any faster he would have to drink it.
This said that the boy had the makings of a gunbearerwith further training.
He told the gunbearer to rake the fire together and throw on some more wood.
When bringing in his last load of grass the gunbearer stumbled over a native lying face downwards on the ground.
Then followed the gunbearerleading the mule; the cook slouched along behind.
The gunbearer cut a reed, slit it a few inches down its length, and offered it to Nanzela.
The gunbearer cut coarse grass for bedding for the horses.
Halfway the gunbearer stopped and delivered his message in a loud voice that all could hear.
This was easy enough for himself and his interpreter, but he would also take his gunbearer and his cook.
The gunbearer didn't bother his head about matters which didn't appear to disturb his master.
I had now got over and was on the opposite bank, but as nothing could induce the dog to voluntarily come near the river, I told the gunbearer to drag him across by force.
I shot the buck, and tying a piece of jungle rope to the dog's neck, gave him to a gunbearer to lead as I hoped he might be again useful in hunting up a wounded deer.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gunbearer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
