He lifted his big head from the pile of karosses on which he was lying and peered at me across the fire.
Their chiefs wore karosses of the skin of the wild cat, leopard or caracal.
These karosses are now often replaced by a blanket.
However, they made the best of it, and, rolling themselves up in such cloaks and karosses as they could muster, lay down by the fires to sleep.
On its green banks reclined a crowd of Fingo warriors, in their war attire of plumes, assegais, shields of bullock-hide, and their karosses draped gracefully round them.
As they approached, I saw that they were divested of all ornaments, while they wore the oldest aprons and karosses they possessed.
Rachel watched it vacantly for a while, then went to the head of the little cave and lay down wrapped in karosses that they had made ready for her.
Then she lay down upon a pile of beautiful karosses that had been placed ready for her, and rested.
Nay," answered another, "it is the Ehlose, the guardian ghost of the Amazulu that appears and dies.
As he spoke it chanced that a bright meteor travelling from the south-west swept across the sky to burst and vanish over the kraal of Umgugundhlovo.
In a wide clear space a ring of some three score of these athletic forms, blankets and karosses thrown aside, began a war-dance to the strange chorus of their deep voices, accompanied by regular tapping on a shield of ox-hide.
The box which you kindly packed for us and despatched to Glasgow has, we hear, been gutted by the Custom-House thieves, and only a very few plain karosses left in it.
Sometimes in church they endeavor to screen themselves from the eyes of the preacher by hiding under the forms or covering their heads with their karosses as a remedy against their convictions.
The men make the karosses and attend to their cattle.
Time being no object, their work is beautifully executed, as may be seen from the karosses brought to England; many of them sold as high as ten pounds.
They also make very neat mantles, karosses and other kinds of materials for the women, the men being the tailors and dressmakers for the tribe.
The duty of the men is to attend to the oxen and cows, make karosses and clothes, hunt and work with their waggon and spans, fetching in the corn when ripe, bringing in wood for the fires; the boys look after the calves and goats.
They were wrapped up in karosses and blankets, and in their centre sat a large figure on a chair of wood.
It was a lovely day, and we took our karosses and rugs to the spot, and picnicked there.
I send you two karosses as a gift, and a little ancient gold, since ivory is too heavy for my messengers to carry, and I have no waggon.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "karosses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
