Blankets were thrown off, and with a tough kerrie in each hand, they fell to.
Here the Fingo, Kleinbooi, who had been striding on in front, his kerrie over his shoulder, now signed them to dismount.
They were not armed, except with sticks; and without his kerrie a Kafir rarely moves.
He carried a heavy knob-kerrie and several assegais, one of which he was twisting about in easy, listless fashion in his right hand.
One of these, poising himself erect with a peculiar springy, quivering motion, holds his kerrieready to hurl.
Had he succeeded in seizing it, a rapidly followed up blow from the deadly kerriewould have stretched the rider senseless, if not dead, upon the veldt.
He holds a knob-kerrie in his hand, ready for use as soon as the quarry shall be within hurling distance.
Echoing the mighty roar of exultation that went up from the spectators, Hlangani stood with his foot on the chest of his prostrate adversary, his kerrie raised to strike again.
Without attempting to follow up his success the savage sprang back, whirling his kerrie round his head.
Then suddenly a crushing blow on the wrist sent Carhayes' kerrie flying from his grasp and almost simultaneously with it came a sickening "scrunch.
A kerriehurtles through the air with an ugly "whigge.
In a trice the man's kerrie was struck from his grasp, and he was thrown down, beaten, kicked, and very roughly handled.
The native boys fished out a knob-kerrie apiece from somewhere--not that it would have been of much use, still it was some sort of a weapon.
Rawson had gone down under a knob-kerrie deftly hurled, but he and Fleetwood still kept their position upon the waggon box, their undischarged weapons in their hands.
I didn't know which way to turn at first; then I seed a Kaffir raising his kerrie to smash the Colonel, who were lying on the ground, and I shot him.
The end of his long kerrie peeped out below his blanket, and the sergeant touched it with his ash stick, then stood on guard.
Then he took his kerrie by the end, and held it out the full length of his arm, with his head forrard and his toes apart, and back so that he leant forward.
Nanzicele snatched out the short-handled heavy knob kerrie stuck through his belt.
His rifle was knocked from his grasp by a blow with a kerrie which he thought had shattered his wrist.
I never left my hut without one or two assagies and a knob-kerrie in my hand; for close to our kraal there were leopards, hyaenas, and other animals that were very dangerous.
I rose to my feet, but felt very sick and giddy from the blow I had received from the knob-kerrie on my head, and was obliged to sit down again.
Watching my chance, I dropped my knob-kerrie on the shoulder of the highwayman.
In two days the hunting party had been assembled, and consisted of about five hundred men, armed with assagies, for the knob-kerrie was no use against a buffalo.
He seemed to understand my meaning, for he smiled, gave me a pat on the head, and gave me a knob-kerrie and an assagy to carry.
If there be one thing I have a downright horror of, it is a snake, so pray let us leave the reptile to itself, for I am not sure enough with my knob-kerrie to knock it over.
This pestilent savage was squatting on his haunches, holding forth volubly, emphasising his points with a flourish of his kerrie in the air, or bringing it down with a whack on the ground.
The blade was caught, however, in the folds of the blanket, and the kerrie came with a sounding crack across the unprotected shins, bringing the Zulu to the ground.
Klaas threw his head back and shouted the Gaika war-cry, then rolled a blanket about his left arm, and moved forward with his long iron-wood kerrie outstretched.
The Gaika had his kerrie trailing from his side, and as the Zulu bounded through the air he made a sweeping blow upwards, which, falling full on the Zulu's elbow, made him drop his stick.
They halted in long, unbroken lines, with outstretched shields and heads held low; no man's head rose more than the length of a dance kerrie from the earth.
Now making pretence to be angry, I leaped at her with my kerrie up, and, forgetting her courage, she dropped her spear, and uttered a little scream.
But Dingaan and Umhlangana were of another wood, and from them might be fashioned a kerrie that should scatter the brains of Chaka to the birds.
I went to the corner of my hut, Noma watching me all the while, and took a kerrie and my small shield.
I was close enough to see their actions and hear the blows when knob-kerrie struck shield with a hollow thump.
He raised his shield and knob-kerrie above his head and saluted the dead king.
The thud of knob-kerrie on shield, the flash of steel, and Makeza lay there in the bright sun, a bleeding, mangled thing!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kerrie" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
