The woman rose from her chair, fetched a light kaross [a fur cloak or rug] from the store, and spread it gently over the sick man's bed.
You will throw a kaross over her head, and bring her to the place which I will tell you of to-morrow, where I shall come upon you with some men and seem to rescue her.
Then he called some of his men, and they carried me in a kaross to this place.
Now I have nothing left in the world; Swart Piet has taken my cattle which I earned cow by cow and bred up heifer by heifer, and save for the wit within my brain and this kaross upon my shoulders, I have nothing.
With her, and holding her hand, came Suzanne, who covered the raggedness of her clothes beneath a splendid kaross of leopards' skins that Sigwe had given her, down which her dark hair flowed almost to her knee.
By him sits Suzanne, a soft kaross of jackal skins wrapped over her nightgown, the dew of sleep still showing upon her childish face and in her large dark eyes.
A kaross of lion's skin was slung about his short but powerful frame, the mane forming a ruff round his huge bull-neck.
The kaross was fastened on the right shoulder, leaving the arm free.
His seat was an old arm-chair, which his daughter had rendered more comfortable and sightly by throwing over it a kaross made of the silver jackal's akin.
And, so saying, he wrapped his kaross still more closely about him and strode away into the moonlight with the light, springy step of a young man.
Then I hunted about in Wambe's hut, and found a kaross to put over his poor bruised shoulders, and he was quite a man again.
Tattered garments, surmounted by a torn kaross or skin rug, hung awkwardly upon his tall, thin frame.
I will show you that you are a liar, for I have the thing yet," and snatching up a horn which lay on the karossbeneath him, he blew.
Kaross is probably either a genuine Hottentot word, or else an adaptation of the Dutch kuras (Portuguese couraca), a cuirass.
Tom prepared his blanket and kaross by the fire, as he had done since Peter's capture.
Yet I would ask this, that thou wilt withdraw the kaross from about thee, O King, that for the last time my eyes may feast themselves upon the body of him whom, above all men, I love.
Beneath that kaross was no man's breast, O King, but the shape of a woman, almost white in colour, and very fair.
Yet I took council with myself and did not--nay, I dropped the corner of the kaross I wrote over my eyes, hiding my face lest he should know me.
Thy first boon is granted," said the king, slipping the kaross from his shoulders and showing the great breast beneath.
We stood together alone by the people of the dead and Baleka threw the corner of the kaross about her brows and spoke to me swiftly from beneath its shadow.
At last they came, and, sitting with my kaross thrown over my face to hide it, looked for the passing of Baleka.
As the third passed the gate, the kaross he wore brushed against me and slipped aside.
Unfortunately Swartboy's legs had not yet cleared the circle--the kaross lapped around them--and the Bushman was thrown sprawling upon the plain.
He stood until the extended trunk was within three feet of his face; and then, flinging his kaross so that it should fall over the long cylinder, he sprang nimbly to one side, and started to run back.
At the first break of dawn Hadden rose and roused his escort, who were still stretched in sleep around the dying fire, each man wrapped in his kaross or blanket.
For a few seconds, perhaps five, he covered his face with the corner of the kaross he wore, then he looked up and spoke to the king in a clear voice.
The men were as particular about their necklaces as any beau could be about the cut of his coat and the women were at times very hard to please in the matter of turban-covers and kaross back-stripes.
Kneeling down, he prepared to take a steady aim at the Bushman in advance, a wild-looking savage in a sheepskin kaross and armed with an assagai.
I unlocked the cupboard and got out a few stores, opened the windows of the bedroom next door, and flung my kaross on the cartel which did duty as bed.
A long white beard fell on his breast, and a magnificent karossof leopard skin covered his shoulders.
After this Barend was put to bed on the wagon-kartel, and the sheepskin kaross thrown lightly over him.
Yet, despite these disadvantages, when completed, the karossmight be taken for a whole and perfect skin, did not the arrangement of the shades prove otherwise.
Then I glided out, my kaross tied up, the tobacco strung round my shoulders, and my shield and assagais in my hand.
What is more, except for the colour of his skin, he was a Kaffir and nothing else, for his costume consisted of a skin moocha such as the natives wear, and a fur kaross thrown over his shoulders.
Except for a kaross upon his shoulders he wore European dress, and the ridiculous hat with the white ostrich feather in it, both of them now much the worse for wear, which she remembered so well.
His evil genius stood between him and the worst of the gusts, and the unsavoury kaross proved an acceptable shield against the stinging missiles with which the air was filled.
I returned to the room and wrapped the body in a largekaross which lay upon the bed.
Before we lowered the body into it, Alida drew the kaross back from the face and imprinted a long kiss upon the dead, smoothed-out brow of the man who had been for so long a father to her, and who had wearied so sorely for his death.
His only clothing was a noisome sheep-skin kaross which had formerly belonged to a great-grandfather--long since deceased.
Often, when I have heard some of the others at a beer-drink boasting of what they have done, I have walked away or hidden my face in my kaross lest the truth should be revealed by my looks.
Leaving the fire-stick to mark the spot to which he had carried his search, he went back to place the karossover the sleeping boy.
Mr. Hume spread the mat under the boy, wrapped the karossover him, and made him comfortable as could be, and then he looked anxiously about.
Then working round with the object of finding which of the three openings she had taken on leaving, he came upon a calabash and a kaross made of goats'-skin.
The man struggled, but with the kaross over his head and in his mouth he could not cry out.
Nangeza threw her skin kaross over both our heads, and breathed forth her plan--for the plan was hers.
Then Nangeza, creeping up behind him, flung her kaross over his head, at the same time throwing her arms around him and pinioning his tightly to his sides.
Hendrick and the horses were to remain with me; also Piet Noona's nephew who would, later, trot on and overtake the wagon with my kaross and pannikin.
I took my kaross and wandered away for a few hundred yards so as to be alone and undisturbed by snoring men or snorting horses.
I seized my kaross and climbed the steep side of the nearest dune-tentacle.
After darkness had fallen I took my kaross and strolled down to the water's edge.
Soon the temperature began to fall rapidly, so I waded back, made a wide detour so as to avoid the tarantula-infested area, and fetched my kaross from where it lay among the trees.
Then I lit my pipe, took my kaross and sought for a suitable couch some distance away.
I do not know how it was, but somehow that part of the kaross with the hole in it was always just in front of my eyes.
The corners of the handkerchiefs hanging down on the left side, gave a jaunty air to the said head-gear; the kaross concealed the form but the feet and right arm, the right hand carrying the war allowance of seven assegais.
Women were there, too, watching for the signal, which was to be the waving of a kaross by a chief.
The kaross is made by sewing a number of skins together with sinew, the skins as a rule being of rock rabbit, or small deer, and occasionally of silver jackal.
Presently she uttered an exclamation, and from among the fur of one of the tails of the kaross produced a tiny bag that appeared to be made out of the bladder of a fish.
Presently, however, I saw another glint of light which I guessed came from the spear of Saduko, who was seated by the ashes of the cooking fire wrapped in his kaross of wildcat skins.
Then I smelt out the poison, searching for it first in the hair of Mameena, and finding it in the kaross of Masapo.
There he stood, rolling his eyes and hugging his kaross around him because of the cold, and something in his anxious, indeterminate expression told me at once that he knew himself to be a man in terrible danger.
Throwing a kaross over my shoulders, I left the hut, made of boughs, in which I was sleeping and walked a few paces to the crest of a rocky ridge, whence I could see the dry vlei below.
How that powder came into his kaross I know not, but perchance it is not poison, only harmless dust.
Therefore none hid it in your karossthrough malice.
Here Cetewayo, who had been about to speak, threw the corner of his kaross over his face.
I say that my right to the succession is as good as his, and that it lies with you, and you alone, to declare which of us shall put on the royal kaross in days that my heart prays may be distant.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kaross" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
