Soon there bursts upon you the famous Karoo country, so familiar to all readers of South African novels and more especially those of Olive Schreiner, Richard Dehan and Sir Percy Fitz Patrick.
This comes naturally because he was born fifty years ago on a farm in what is known as the Western Province in the Karoo country.
After the Karoo comes the equally famous veldt, studded with the kopjes that became a part of the world vocabulary with the Boer War.
The climate of theKaroo is very favorable to persons suffering from lung trouble.
We shall travel northward over the Karoo again to Bloemfontein, then easterly across the Orange Free State to Ladysmith, board a train going south, and return to Durban.
He knew what the Karoo was now, even if he had not seen a Boer roll over like a rabbit, or heard the whine of flying bullets.
But the language of the interpreter being in a great measure unintelligible, we all deemed that he said repeatedly that Karoo would not give the lady up.
I thanked the great Karoo for his kind intentions, but declared my incapability to part with my wife, for that we were one flesh and blood, and nothing could separate us but death.
I have not time to describe all the fooleries and difficulties we had to encounter; suffice it, that Karoo denied the deed, but still in such a manner that my suspicions were confirmed.
We had not force in our own small settlement to compel Karoo to restore her; and I was therefore obliged to buy a trained ox, on which I rode all the way to the next British settlement, for there are no horses in that country.
We applied to Karoo for assistance, who had a great number of slaves from that country, much attached to him, who knew the language of the place whither we were going, and all the passes of the country.
Be that as it may, the chief Karoo came to me one day with his interpreter, whom he caused to make a long palaver about his power, and dominion, and virtues, and his great desire to do much good.
So far as the eye might reach there was nothing but arid sweltering sand and karoo scrub.
But to my mind the chances of our finding it in that great sea of sand and karoo scrub seemed almost infinitesimal.
To be reduced to dependence on Karoo grass was a sad fate for the poor quadrupeds.
Kitchener, who accompanied Lord Roberts as Chief of Staff, had shown in his generation some skill as a pioneer of deserts; the Karoo would be child's play to him.
Before her and behind her stretched the plain, covered with red sand and thorny karoo bushes; and here and there a milk-bush, looking like a bundle of pale green rods tied together.
Sluit--A deep fissure, generally dry, in which the superfluous torrents of water are carried from the karoo plains after thunderstorms.
North of the Karoo Desert the principal places are well situated for altitude.
In the karoo veldt, in the Prince Albert district, the light rainfall, together with the violent slope of the country, renders numerous irrigation schemes impossible.
Mr. Willcocks thus describes a mode of dealing with them: "At the foot of some low hills in the karoo bush I came across great numbers of the footgangers.
But the karoo bushes need and are worth development, otherwise they will in time be exterminated.
The majority of the veld is of the karoo type, covered with the remarkable karoo bush on the leafless twigs of which sheep thrive and fatten.
The business now supports a clerk--a young Englishman of good education but indifferent lungs, and who was ordered a karoo climate by the doctors.
Its bounds begin immediately to the eastward of the rugged mountain chain which runs parallel with the coast-line, about eighty miles inland, and it stretches on for hundreds of miles until merged with the central Karoo plains.
Oh, no; quite an old story amongst married women," said Cora, with her Karoo smile.
He had been everywhere, from theKaroo to the Kalahari, from Boshof to Blantyre, and from Matjesfontein to the Matoppos.
He had taught them many things from the book of nature,--many arts that can be acquired as well on the karoo as in the college.
Of the four species in South Africa, the zebra is a mountain animal, and dwells among the cliffs, while the dauw and quagga rove over the plains and wild karoo deserts.
But Von Bloom and his family had lived too long upon the wild karoo to be ignorant of those voices.
I thanked the greatKaroo for his kind intentions, but declared my incapability to part with my wife, for that we were one flesh and blood, and that nothing could separate us but death.
Karoo denied the deed; but still in such a manner that my suspicions were confirmed.
The chief Karoo came to me one day with his interpreter, whom he caused to make a long palaver about his power, and dominion, and virtues, and his great desire to do much good.
He had once heard a young man from the Sanatorium agree with Mrs. du Preez that the Karoo resembled a brick-field established in a cemetery.
The Karoodoes n't suit him a bit," Mrs. Jakes went on.
Mrs. Jakes stood silent; she asked no questions as to how a London doctor, a friend of Margaret's, chanced to be walking upon the Karooat night.
He looked straight before him as he strode; his manner of walking did not allow him to bestow a glance upon the Karoo as he went.
Nothing mild or subtle could find expression in its rude shaping of feature; the taciturnity of the Karoo itself governed it.
The room was a large one, with a window to the south full of sunshine and commanding nothing but the eternal unchanging levels of the Karoo and the hard sky rising from its edge.
Paul was down at the dam with sheep, and before he returned the brown distances of the Karoo had enveloped them and its levels had risen behind them to blot out the dishonored roof of the house.
There were glimpses of cushioned interiors, and tired faces that looked from the windows, giving a perfunctory glance to the Karoowhich Paul knew as the world.
He flicked at spots of water on the glossy surface of his gray coat and watched the rain drive across and hide the Karoo like a steel-hued fog.
Twenty feet way, Ford had his little easel between his outstretched legs and was frowning absorbedly from it to the Karoo and back again.
It was as though the Karoo challenged her conception of it.
At the turn of the wall, its lights met her with their dazed, unwinking stare, shining from the dining-room which had no part in the spacious night of the Karoo and those whose place is in the darkness.
Her malady had made a sharp interruption in her life and she had come to the Karoo in the sure hope that there she would be restored and given a warrant to return finally to her own world and deal with it unhampered.
The Karoo lay under a twilight, with the night stripping from its face like a veil drawn westwards and away.
Adding to their spectral appearance were the long, withered grass-tufts and karoo bushes, white as if coated with hoar frost.
For in their thoughts, also, was the Karoo they had lately crossed with so much difficulty and danger.
But just now there is little fear of that, the animals not yet having recovered from the Karoo journey, and all are browsing tranquilly.
They were exhausted after an eight-mile march, with this action at the end of it; hot and thirsty too, suffering from such heat and thirst as is only known in dusty deserts like the Karoo in time of drought.
Travelling, even with the variety of emotion which the Karoo excites, is no great comfort in South Africa.
The stretches of the Karoo are past, and breakfast at De Aar is in sight.
Then the Karoo becomes unlovely, desolate, and barren-looking, with only its inconspicuous permanent plants visible.
After a shower of rain, the Karoo in South Africa, for instance, is an extraordinarily beautiful country.
About forty years ago the Karoo plains, the Orange Free State, and Transvaal were, so to say, monopolised by milliards of game.
The smell of the karoo bush is sweeter than attar, and the bog-myrtle and mimosa, where they shelter a house or fringe a river, have a look of Arcady.
KAROO The highlands of the interior of South Africa.
Rains had covered the karoo with a heavy coat of green that hid the red earth everywhere.
Every day thekaroo shows us a new wonder sleeping in its teeming bosom.
Doss sat among the karoo bushes, one yellow ear drawn over his wicked little eye, ready to flap away any adventurous fly that might settle on his nose.
There was nothing to be seen but the last rays of yellow sunset light, painting the karoo bushes in the plain, and shining on the ash-heap, where the fowls were pecking.
Once on this farm there came a stranger; I did not ask his name, but he sat among the karooand talked with me.
Every now and then a great red spider would start out of the karoo on one side of the path and run across to the other, but nothing else broke the still monotony.
Oh, would it not be more worship of Him to sit alone in the karoo and kiss one little purple flower that he had made?
The plain was a weary flat of loose red sand, sparsely covered by dry karoo bushes, that cracked beneath the tread like tinder, and showed the red earth everywhere.
And as you feel the springy Karoo beneath your animal's stride, you catch the lament of some officer whom you have hustled in the drift.
Away at our feet stretched mile upon mile of rolling Karoo and blue-grey prairie.
As the morning sun grew stronger, the everlasting grey of the Karoo became jewelled with brighter tints.
The six inches of spare Karoo bush, though it served as a nibble for the less fastidious of animals, was useless either as bed or shade; other vegetable growth there was none within sight.
A quarter of a mile brought the two men to the enclosure of a little Karoo homestead, nestling in a hollow in the veldt.
At eleven o'clock, except that the ridge of hill had been left behind, it seemed that no impression had been made upon the great waste of Karoo in front of us.
The column swung out into the great dry Karoo prairie.
Therefore the officer commanding the New Cavalry Brigade, having covered the whole force over Minie Kloof, will halt and allow the brave general to pass through his brigade, and then follow him along a Karoo road into Prieska.
The bare fifty still with the brigade were the survival of the fittest after a week of rain at Hanover and another week of struggling with Karoo tracks ankle-deep in dust.
The general attitude of the household was that of humility, in contrast to the usual reception which the column had experienced in the majority of Karoo farms.
As the shadows began to grow long across the level of stunted Karoo we had placed another ten miles behind us on the road to Britstown.
The day had been a repetition of the one which had preceded it--one of those burning karoo afternoons, which seem to sap the very soul out of all things living.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "karoo" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
