The grave at the foot of the little kopjelocated the spot.
The Englishman did not bury them with her under that verdoemte kopje that he built with his two hands, and they are not in the boxes in the living-waggon.
Since the attack on Maxim Kopje had choked the Hospital with wounded men and dotted the Cemetery with little white crosses, nothing of much note had occurred.
That dead woman lying out there under the Little Kopje was small, and slight, and frail.
Then he is saying to the officer in charge at Maxim Kopje South: "The ammunition comes up to-night.
Who knew but that the white woman's ghost would rise out of the kopje there, some dark night, and pinch and cuff and thump and beat people who had ill-used her bantling?
She was the ragged Kid, crouching on the Little Kopje in the gathering twilight or on the long mound that its eastward shadow covered.
From dawn until dark the ancient seven-pounders of her batteries had banged and grumbled, her Maxims had rattled defiance from Kopje Fort, and the Nordenfelt released its showers of effective, death-dealing little projectiles.
She saw the little kopjewith the grave at its foot.
I have to inform you that an attack will be made on Maxim Kopje South by a large force of the enemy with guns in the beginning of November.
Two or three of them went out to Star Kopje and loosed two miserable old ponies, driving them towards the Boer lines to graze.
I climbed the kopje in front of them, and from there could get a fine view of the whole position except the extreme flanks.
The central rendezvous beside the Newcastle road was well protected by a high rocky hill, which one can only call a kopje now.
I heard afterwards they were shelling an empty and deserted kopjefor hours, but I know that only from hearsay.
About a mile and a half from the centre we were halted again on the top of another rocky kopje covered with low bush and trees, out of which we frightened several little brown deer and some strange birds.
Brandfort is a little town on the railway some forty miles north of Bloemfontein, overlooked by a big rockykopje on the north.
Some of the hills are rather shakily turned out, and now and then a kopje has fallen away, as it were, in the making.
From a square and flat-topped kopje just north of the town we had the whole scene of the withdrawal down the opposite slopes before our eyes.
Kopje after kopje, as the Boers push on, breaks into fire and is left extinct behind.
Under the kopje your main body are sitting about, while their ponies, with bridles thrown over their heads, graze.
From the kopje on the extreme left front, where we were, we could now see extended at our feet the whole plan of the approaching battle, while as yet the two sides were invisible to each other.
It was from this kopje that we got notice to quit, by the way.
Already, after five shots, the whole kopje is enveloped in dust and reddish smoke from the bursting lyddite, but elsewhere between us and the sunrise the hills are a perfect dark blue, pure blocks of the colour.
At last from a lowkopje top by the path comes the first loud and welcome "Halt!
There is the simple kopje or cone, not to be distinguished at a little distance from the constructed pyramids of Egypt, just as regular and perfect.
There is a little shout of approval; one bursts right among the rocks on the top of the kopje in a puff of white smoke; the other half-way down, raising a great cloud of dust.
You push on, scouts feeling the way, to occupy some prominent kopje on the line of march, and climbing up and sitting among the rocks, command with your glasses a view far and wide over the plain.
An enemy company had camped on our line of march and was slowly and cleverly retreating before us from kopje to kopje in the direction of Numarroe.
And now as the guns pealed faster and faster we saw mounted men riding up the nearer swell of kopje and diving over the edge.
No fields or orchards break the transition from man to nature; step out of the street and you are at once on rock-ribbed kopje or raw veldt.
From our billow we could not see them move; but the green on the side of the line grew broader, and the green between them and the kopje grew narrower.
Away, away on the right, from the green kopje over the brown one where still struggled the reserves of our infantry.
Below the small kopje were tents and waggons; from the leftward shoulder of the big one flashed once more the Boer guns.
On this same 7th a brother Long Tom, by the name of Fiddling Jimmy, opened on the Manchesters and Cæsar's Camp from a flat-topped kopje three or four miles south of them.
A round or two--and then suddenly came a flash from a kopje two thousand yards beyond the station on the right.
They stared hard out of sun-puckered eyes over the billows of kopje and veldt.
But nothing was seen till the last kopje was ascended prior to journeying back to the waggons, when Dean in sweeping the sides of a slope half a mile away suddenly gave the alarm.
He is clever enough at choosing good open country where my bullocks can get along, and he never stops at a kopje without our finding water.
If you gen'lemen wish for lion hunting all you have got to do is to tell Mak, and he will take us right out on the open veldt where there's a kopje of rocks here and there and the spring boks and antelope beasts go in droves.
Kopje Wallopers" was the generic term by which such dealers were known.
When I reached the kopje which, by the way, never was a kopje at all men were swarming over it like ants over a heap of sugar.
Then I left the road and made for a kopje about a mile away, on which were some very large rocks.
Finding the Boers were in pursuit, and fearing the arrival of reinforcements from the investing forces, however, they returned to a kopje in the vicinity of Madibi.
The capture of the kopje was an excellent move, as it was a useful position whence to watch for and intercept reinforcements that might be coming from Ladysmith or elsewhere to the succour of the doomed.
Cronje, finding that the reinforcements failed to reach him, decided on the night of the 26th to cut his way out and seize a kopje before dawn.
The Lancashire's Mounted Infantry and two guns were posted on Otto's Kopje while the Cape Police protected the Dam Wall.
A bombardment of our front on Cannon Kopje by the Boer 94-pounder followed.
Closer and closer rode our men and now I could see them open out and work like a perfect machine round the bases of the kopje and then across the still morning air came the ominous crack!
In the afternoon they neared a kopje in which the Dutchmen were ensconced.
On thekopje by Shoeman's Farm were left seven killed and five wounded.
These held a strong position on a kopje which seemed to be specially constructed by nature for defensive purposes.
Because he was so fond of eating; and he said the black would be found curled up amongst the stones somewhere in the kopje among the baboons, sleeping off his feed.
I listened as our horses tramped quietly on through what was, now that the kopje had been left behind, like a sandy desert, whose soft surface completely muffled the hoofs.
Then all we have to do is to make a ring of our men round the kopje there, and drive the baboons into the court here.
It was too dark yet to make out much of the enemy's position; but right away to our left, and not many miles distant, was the heavy-looking mass of the great kopje and the ancient buildings we had left.
Then I should tell Joeboy to begin creeping out towards the east yonder, and keep on till we were out of bearing before striking away for the kopje here.
Look here; those brutes of Boers will reach that great kopje first, drop amongst the stones, and shoot us all down just when we get there with our horses pumped out.
Why, that's the old fort and the kopje yonder, a mile ahead," I said suddenly.
I've slept out on the veldt or up in a kopje scores of times," I replied, "and have grown used to it.
There used to be a pack of them in a big kopje not far from our place, and they would come down and make raids upon the farm till we had to make it too hot for them with small-shot, and then they went right away.
Happily Colonel Buller had left Baker and his men on the stonykopje to cover our retreat, and his men peppered one of these intercepting columns so effectually as to stop their advance.
Zulus crept down to the strong kopje commanding the drift, and fired on the soldiers, who were washing and bathing in the river below.
After moving some two or three miles, our further way was blocked by mauser-fire from a very ominous, black-looking kopje which stretched down into the valley from the high ground on our left.
Colonel Hicks was again detailed to take a kopje from which a considerable but ineffectual fire was coming.
The three companies which had made their attack on the kopje spent the night on the captured position.
The attack was successful, and the kopje was captured.
The enemy did not pay much attention to us at first, but after going a little way I galloped with my section to take possession of a small kopje which commanded the route.
We finally bivouacked for the night on the most stonykopje in all South Africa.
The guns still thundered invitingly just ahead, and as we topped each fresh horizon or rounded the slope of the next kopje we all expected to see our prey close in front.
The assault was successful, and the greater part of Pieter's Hill fell into our hands, but the Boers still held a kopje to the north of the hill, and maintained a heavy fire.
No Boers were seen in the pass, so the force, with the battalion as rearguard, returned to Indumana Kopje at 12.
Camp was made high up on the kopje whence the eye could carry to immense distances.
The safari of the Leopard Woman had passed the kopje not over a mile away; indeed Kingozi had left her trail only a short distance back.
Only lacked a few rocky kopje fastnesses to make it ideal; but that lack could be, and was, overlooked.
Behind them the kopje dwindled in importance until it took its place with insignificant landmarks.
Nor were the rest of the band less remarkable for "grit," for out of the small number holding the kopje nine were wounded and five killed!
At the same time, the raiding party will assemble behind the Kopje E, situated two kilometres from the town.
From this point the Dutchmen were driven by the Seaforths, who from thence proceeded to a peaked kopje which commanded the water supply, a position which was at once vigorously contested by the Boers.
When the men creeping up the stony kopjecame to peer for the enemy in the trenches they found--merely trenches.
Still more north--about two miles--went two companies of Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders to ensconce themselves on a kopje which commanded the road towards Heilbron.
The plan of attack will be carried out under the following conditions: At eleven o'clock in the evening, the Boers under Field-Cornet Daniell will be in position on the Kopje C, and the telegraph wire on the Kimberley road will be cut by them.
At the rise of Kopje D, a halt will be made behind the cemetery, and the Saeremburg echelon will carry the kopje by assault and will occupy it.
This advance of the troops was masterly, though no cover was available till the base of the kopje occupied by the enemy was reached.
The Boers were espied in a long, low kopje to the east and west of the Dewetsdorp Road, the wide, flat ridge of which General French meant to seize.
As soon as it came from under the shelter of the kopje on which we and the C.
The manoeuvre was unsuccessful, for a party of hidden Boers, from a kopje north-west of Reddersburg, assailed him and forced him to retire and wait till the main column should come to his assistance.
The relievers came in for nasty attentions from a Maxim, but in spite of this they behaved with great gallantry, made for the kopje on which the Boers were ensconced, and finally cleared the summit.
Some twenty-five of the Behar Section, who were holding a detached kopje during the reconnaissance, were surrounded and fired on in their isolated position by some 200 Boers.
He took up, and did his best to make defensible, a plateau and kopje position two miles N.
The presence of De Wet on Kitchener's Kopje gave Cronje a moral support which was not of much use to him.
The artillery preparation enjoined by the regulations had, however, to be curtailed owing to the approach of night, but not before the two Boer guns on the southern kopje were silenced; and then the main attack was delivered.
The officer in command on the inner kopje considered that he was bound by the act and recognized it, and only hastened the inevitable end.
The chief incident of the affair was the holding of an outflanked and commanded kopje position by a few companies of the Royal Irish Fusiliers for six hours.
The outer kopje was rushed by the enemy, the detachment occupying it being driven back towards the inner kopje.
Vendutie Drift, a hill, to which the name of Kitchener's Kopje was afterwards given, rises out of the veld.
On May 30 a kopje on the west, from which the Boers were sniping into the position, was captured by Spragge, but soon fell again into the hands of the burghers.
Towards the south and south-east this kopje is cut off from the Kliprandts (known by the name of Suikerboschplaats) by a deep circular cleft called Rhenosterpoort.
A mouthful of brandy and water (which I always carried with me) was given me and restored me somewhat, and when I opened my eyes I saw the enemy climbing the kopje on three sides of us, some of them only a hundred paces away from me.
I mounted a high kopjefrom which I could see the whole Orange Free State army, followed by a long line of quite 500 carts and a lot of cattle, in full retreat, and enveloped in great clouds of red dust.
Jack and Tanta Sal had gone together to the kopje for company's sake to fetch three or four buckets from the cool fresh spring, of whose use he had been so lavish during the past day.
The night was coming on fast, and a faint star or two became visible, while the granite kopje rose up, softly rounded in the evening light, with a faint glow appearing from behind it, just as if the moon were beginning to rise there.
Far enough, for the kopje was only just visible against the sky.
During the earlier part of the fight it had done good service in holding back the Ramdam detachment of Boers which occupied a kopje about two and a quarter miles to the south-east of the battlefield.
The heat of the day was intense, and considerable difficulty was experienced in conveying water and ammunition up the steep slopes of the kopje to the British fighting line.
The burghers, therefore, began slipping away from the hill, and by nightfall had practically evacuated it, leaving their gun for some time on the kopje unprotected save by a small escort.
Meanwhile the three companies of the Irish Rifles, which had seized kopje +a+, had made their way step by step up the northern extremity of the Kissieberg, and had struggled on to within close proximity of its crest line.
These, with a Maxim, somewhat isolated on the kopje on what was now the right flank, were beginning to be hotly engaged.
There the brigade halted for a moment; the Naval battalion was immediately facing the eastern kopje and now slightly in advance of the other units.
To the south and south-west, it is enclosed by a lower hill, named the Kissieberg, and on the north by a flat-topped kopje on which forts had been constructed by the British garrison when in occupation of the junction.
Between this kopje and the northern point of the Kissieberg, there is a gap of a mile through which pass out the spruit, which drains the vlei, and the branch line to Naauwpoort.
This officer, whose company was on the left of the line of the Scots Guards, found himself under heavy fire from the kopje marked +d+.
With the Gordons he held the kopje on the western face of the mountain to the very last, and all but two of his men were killed or wounded.
On the 5th, the Boer lines were shelled and a careful examination was made of the grassy kopje at the north-western extremity, known as Grassy or Suffolk Hill.
Once more the seamen and marines pressed upward at an order from the wounded Captain Prothero: "Men of the Naval Brigade, advance at the double; take that kopje and be hanged to it.
General French, with the heliographers, climbed a small kopje on the right and set to work to open communication with the besieged garrison.
Only the small Scandinavian contingent, seventy men strong, pushed boldly forward and seized a kopje on the right.
So the storming force retired, and a steady rifle fire was directed upon the kopje to bring the Boers to their senses.
Several of the enemy rose and held up their hands; the kopje was taken.
It was this kopje which the cavalry had failed to seize on January 1.
Opposite thekopje that the cavalry had failed to seize, at the northern extremity of the Boer position, 400 of the Suffolks were forthwith entrenched.
A squadron of South African Light Horse held a kopje all day under heavy fire, but, by carefully taking cover, without losing a man.
But it was with a feeling of relief that I turned the corner of the further kopje and found I had thrown double sixes again.
Gallopers were sent off, one to warn the right corps of Mounted Infantry, another to bid the main body of the force go dead slow, another to the threatened eastern kopje to learn the state of affairs there.
The reports which reached the town, that Kitchener's Horse were 'cut off' on a kopje four miles from the camp, induced General French to send the Gordon Highlanders to their relief.
Rundle considered that the retention of the kopje was of first importance, and Sir Herbert Chermside, his second in command, fully agreed with him.
Far away on the broad expanse of down parties of Dutch horsemen cantered swiftly forward; and along a road beyond the eastern kopje rose a steady trickle of mounted men.
The top of the Diamond Hill plateau was swept by fire from a long rocky kopje about 1,800 yards distant from the edge, and was, moreover, partially enfiladed from the enemy's position on the right.
At length the track, which had been winding among the smooth undulations, rounded an unusually steep hillock of kopje character, and we saw before us at the distance of a mile the pretty little town of Lindley.
Behind that steep kopje a man might scorn the shrapnel.
I looked at the Boers, they were nearer to the white stone kopje than we, but, on the other hand, they had the hill to climb, and were probably worse mounted.
The firing about the kopje had been loud, and a rumour--who starts these tales?
The Dutch replied at once with three or four guns, one of which seemed a very heavy piece of ordnance on the main Rand ridge, and another fired from the kopje against which the Gordons were marching.
Nearly all the children of the town came to the Kopjein the afternoons.
She remembered the Kopje and her old friend the mimosa tree, but there was a certain gloom about the Kopje on a dark night.
At once Mrs. Kennedy's imagination conjured up a picture of Ina sitting on a damp stone on the Kopje while Poppy amused herself reading a book.
Sometimes, when Poppy had been very unhappy at school, she used to stop at the Kopje instead of hurrying home, so that she could cry without being spied on by Ina or the twins.
Bobby was a heavy-weight, and though she changed him from one hip to another all the way up the street, she never got to the Kopjewithout a pain in her stomach and a feeling of deathly sickness.
As soon as it was dark, four companies of the Regiment were left on Devon Kopje as an advanced post, whilst the remainder of the Regiment retired to the rear of the hill and bivouacked.
This kopje was a small hill covered with large boulders.
Lieutenant Field rushed forward beyond this kopje and lay down in the open and commenced firing at the Boers at the crest just in front.
On March 14th the 7th Brigade marched to Arcadia, seven miles out of Ladysmith on the Vanreenen's Pass road, camping on a kopje overlooking Dewdrop Spruit.
He was shot through the head (as were most of the killed) within fifteen yards of the kopje held by the Boers.
A Field Battery opened fire on to the kopje at about 3000 yards' range from some rising ground.
This rocky kopje was strongly fortified and held by the Boers.
The kopje was entrenched and everything made comfortable for the following day.
At this place the Regiment stopped for the day, taking cover from shell fire behind the large boulders of rocks of which the kopje was composed.
A small elevation near Durban and a spruit near Cape Town were marked as plainly as a kopje near Pretoria, while the British forts at Durban and Cape Town were as accurately pictured as the roads that led to them.
On the summit of the kopje the burghers were firing leisurely but accurately.
The two men went out on patrol and by night crept up a kopje behind which about three hundred British cavalrymen were bivouacking.
Lieutenant Oelfse, of the State Artillery, and Reginald Sheppard, of the Pretoria commando, observed a strong force of the British advancing towards a kopjewhere the Krugersdorp commando was concealed.
The burghers in the kopje fired a few shots, and the troops turned quickly to the left and again broke into a gallop.
The cavalrymen, who had gained the summit of the kopje meanwhile, opened fire on the fleeing Boers, and their bullets cut open the horses' sides and ploughed holes into the burgher's clothing.
More followed several minutes afterwards, and when those who remained on the summit of the kopje saw that ten times their number of soldiers were ascending the hill under cover of cannon fire they also fled to their horses.
The general asked two young Boers to carry ammunition to the top of a kopje which was being hard-shelled by the enemy.
General Meyer occupied Talana Hill, east of Dundee, and a kopje south of the town, and attacked General Penn-Symons's forces at daybreak.
An open plain half a mile wide lay between the point where the burghers mounted their horses, and another kopje in the north-east.
Almost at the same moment, a smart fire was opened from a smallkopje 1,000 yards in rear, which, owing to the pace and the change of advanced guards, had not been searched.
The guns had come into action on the slope of the ridge against a kopje to the north, as the marks made by the spades shewed.
Thorne collected men from among the wagons, dashed across the bridge, and seized a kopje on the further side, thereby gaining a mention in column orders.
A desultory fire was kept up for a short time from a kopjeon the extreme right, but soon ceased.
Those that were on the right originally had been pushed off slightly to the right front, after occupying the hill we attacked, in order to search a kopje some little way off.
A sugar-loaf hill and a small kopje stand in front of the ridge at about the centre.
The Volunteer company, under Captain Blake, came up in extended order and opened fire on the kopje at a range of 2,000 yards, afterwards advancing somewhat down the slope so as to get within closer range.
An occasional kopje sticking up darkly here and there only served to mark the great distances.
On the 15th of November the General made a dash from Lindley at a Boer laager, which was supposed to be about 7 miles out on the Reitz road, on the other side of a huge kopje easily visible at a considerable distance.
The instance occurred on the kopje east of Driefontein Farm yesterday evening, and was witnessed by several of my own staff officers, as well as by myself, and resulted in the wounding of several of my officers and men.
Now it is evident that the Boer sniper who draws his Mauser from its hiding-place in order to have a shot at the Rooineks from a safe kopje does not comply with any one of these conditions.
We found the people in the farm-house on the distant kopje quite hysterical over the near presence of the British, and the entire place in such an uproar that we slept out in the veldt.
From the top of a kopje we saw that the battle had at last begun and that the bridge was the objective point.
He told us we could not reach the bridge that night, and showed us a farm-house on a distant kopje where we could find a place to spread our blankets.
Above is a blue glaring sky, into which the top of the kopje seems to reach, and to draw and concentrate upon itself all of the sun's heat.
The Tommies begin to roll the rocks away, endangering the limbs of the men below them, and half the kopje is obliterated.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kopje" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
