It was on the fringe of the Drakensberg, and many spurs of hill, divided by deep kloofs like gashes, descended on to it.
Once the baboons had tasted the sweetness of the young corn, they would come again and again, camping in the kloofs overhead as long as anything remained for them, like a deaf guest.
Any one may hear them in the kloofson a windless night, and, I can tell you, the sound of their sorrow is pitiful.
Superficially it differed in no way from any round dozen of the wild bushy kloofs on any other part of the farm.
The sky was clear and the stars shone in myriad frosty twinkle, and up from the shaggy forest strips which lined the deep kloofs abutting on the great hollow, came the multifold voices of the creatures of the night, winged or four-footed.
As we gathered round the fallen tree to finish the cleaning and slip it down to the track Jim remarked irrelevantly that tigers were `schelms,' and it was his conviction that there were a great many in the kloofs round about.
It was moonlight, and we moved along through the heavily-timbered kloofs in single file behind the shadowy figure of the shrivelled old chief.
Black densely-timbered kloofs broke the edge of the plateau into a long series of projecting turrets, in some places cutting far in, deep crevices into which the bigger waterfalls plunged and were lost.
Bushbuck too were plentiful enough, but so wily in keeping to the dark woods and deep kloofs that unless we organised a drive the only chance one got was to stalk them in the early morning as they fed on the fringes of the bush.
The elbow was the poort, the arm the terrace--except that the terrace was irregularly curved--and the fingers the small kloofs in the mountains.
At the top end it opened out like a fan which died away in a frayed edge in the numberless small kloofs and spurs fringing the amphitheatre of the hills.
Shortly after daylight several Boers were observed to be driving their cattle into kloofs above the Badfontein valley for safety.
The mounted troops and guns were very slow in coming out, with the result that a large quantity of cattle located in the various kloofs which should have been captured, escaped.
The mountain was intersected by deep kloofs and ravines, into most of which the Boers had collected their families and supplies, in the hope that neither would be found.
They also brought in a number of families, some of whom had been hiding for months in kloofs and dongas in great fear of the Kaffirs.
Well, it need concern him no further, for in a day or two his interest in Seven Kloofs would be a thing of the past.
The bottom of the kloofs was smooth and grassy, which, of course, favoured him.
Now Seven Kloofs was the property of her father, his only bad bargain, as we have said elsewhere.
He guessed that the donga was of the same nature as the one at Seven Kloofs although here there was no river for it to open into, and to that end he slowly began to make his way downward.
The reference was to the network of rugged bushy kloofs of which mention has been made, and which were specially adapted for the harbouring of various forms of wild life, antipathetic and detrimental to stock.
He was back at Seven Kloofs again, and, once more, it was his very own.
In the silence of night his voice is so distinctly audible from the homestead that you would imagine him to be close by, though in reality he is far off in one of the kloofs of the mountains.
There is also some very fine timber, particularly in the kloofs amongst the hills.
Fine timber and bush grow in the kloofs and along the banks; many of the hills are very picturesque, and the country produces fine grasses for cattle.
Tigers and tiger-cats are yet plentiful in the kloofs of the mountain ranges that extend so far through the colony.
Wood is plentiful in the kloofs and on the river-banks, where the water is procured.
The Back river commences in a range of the Brinus mountains, a beautiful and picturesque group, several thousand feet in height, of granite formation, well-wooded in the kloofs and ravines.
From down there, Baas," replied the fellow, in fair English, jerking his thumb in the direction of a labyrinth of bushy kloofs stretching away beneath.
But they were in for it now, and soon the path opened, and before and beneath them lay a network of kloofs covered with a thick, jungly scrub, here and there a rugged krantz shooting up from the waves of foliage.
Some of his force escaped between the British columns, and some remained in the kloofs and forests of that difficult country.
I used to know the spot well; it is where one of the numerous wooden kloofs that scar the mountain slopes ends on a grassy plain of turf, short but very sweet.
Still they galloped forward till they reached a more broken stretch of veldt, where trees grew singly, and here and there were kloofs with bush in them.
No wonder there are few wild flowers to be seen, save in the kloofs of the mountains.
Numbers of green parrots were screaming in the kloofs near Hans' retreat, whilst the sweet double whistle of the quail resounded from every patch of grass.
Report has it that in some of the Drakensberg kloofs between Basutoland and Natal a few stray eland may also be found.
He drew all the kloofs and grass that I had tested half an hour before, unconsciously passing over my plainly written horse's footmarks, with a laudable perseverance that deserved success.
I was walking one day about the kloofs near this town, when I heard a noise like running water; I listened attentively, and was convinced I heard its ripple, although the ground was apparently unbroken.
We had for nearly four hours continually searched kloofsand ravines, but we had seen no game whatsoever.
Colonel Park, who was unavoidably prevented from reaching his assigned position in time, proceeded to investigate the kloofs on the western side of Rhenoster Kop, and unearthed seventeen prisoners and many oxen, horses, and vehicles.
Then, 24 prisoners were hemmed in and taken in the kloofs between Spitz Kop and Castrols Nek.
The remnant, however, broke back and hid in kloofs and ravines in the difficult region around the Koetzeesberg.
On each side of the main valley the cliffs are broken by smaller kloofs running up them, and they contain any number of caves and huge boulders.
These are situated away from the main roads, and hidden in kloofs and valleys among the hill ranges.
The Orange River Valley to the east and all its mysterious kloofs were thoroughly searched, and the loopholes, whence the hunted might evade the vigilance of General French's troops on the other side, were watched with lynx eyes.
Colonel Lawley and Major Du Cane made more captures in the vicinity of the Doornberg, and Colonel Barker's troops groped for Boers in the kloofs and caves of the western slopes of the Wittebergen.
Game too was plentiful, though the dark bushy kloofs intersecting a high rand on one side of the place gave promise of the more undesirable kind from the stock-raiser's point of view--such as leopards and wild dogs and baboons.
Afar off was a roaring sound new to her, that, later, she discovered to be the rushing waters in the kloofs that were tearing tumultuously to swell the river a few miles off.
On the third day, one of the kloofs on the farm gave up a wig of golden hair, all muddy and weed-entangled.
As for Roddy, poor kid, he is probably drowned in one of the kloofs and speeding for the river by now--just the sort of adventure his queer little mind would embark on.
Skirting the wooded Kloofs from Bathurst towards the banks of the Klienemonden, were ranged the parties of James and Hyman.
The officer was anxious to get his men out of these dark kloofs in daylight.
In place of the endless bush and woodedkloofs and hills were smooth grassy plains, and mountains verdant to their broken summits.
In one or two places belts of bush, running up from the wooded kloofs below, encroached on the green plain, and as Kaffir spies were hovering round, we kept out of musket range of the treacherous cover.
May said there were holes in the calabash, and so it was; the warrior bands were broken, but they infested the colony in all directions, walking in and out of it as it pleased them, by manifold kloofs and passes untrod by settlers.
Women and children fled into nooks and corners; some found their way to their huts, and the herdsmen on the hills rushed into the adjacent kloofs and valleys.
What they did not see was the flower and pick of their manhood strewing their native hills and kloofs with stiffened corpses in thousands, to the advantage of the aasvogel and the jackal.
To-day, however, all seems peaceful enough as the sun beats down upon the rolling plains and silent kloofs of British Kaffraria, with unwonted force for a spring day.
The Ingonyama came next, and joined the Ntabatulu and Ingoma ranges, the latter of which overhangs the left bank of the Black Umfolosi, all along which are the most extensive forests and inaccessible kloofs and krantzes.
About three miles to the right, and to the south of the ford last crossed, rose several thickly-wooded hills, and in the kloofs could be seen the smoke of kraals.
The Volunteers do their work neatly, coolly, quickly, to the chagrin of Boers who wait in kloofs beyond Klip River for a chance of carrying off some valuable horses.
The black men owned little of the country: they hid in the kloofs and thickets in terror, while the European conquerors shed each other's blood for gold, and land, and power.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kloofs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
