In various parts of the United States where Dutch and German customs prevail, Kris Kringle appears in the combined role of the Christ Child and Santa Claus, and the vigil of his festival is called "Christ Kinkle eve.
Of course; and it made me so English that I don't want to kris the poor fellows now that I have come back and am Maharajah here in my father's stead.
That's a piece of a silk sarong clinging to his waist, with a kris stuck in it.
Yes--one of those awfully bad ones; and twice over he clapped his hand to his waist and uncovered the handle of his kris as if he meant to use it.
Well, I should have asked him to give me the kris to put away in case of accidents," said Archie merrily.
You got over wanting to kris the fellows, didn't you?
Never mind about the fat and lean so long as you feel that you can hit out with your fist or tackle a kris chap with one of our spears.
And taking the kris in his hand, he held the blade threateningly towards the mahout and beckoned to him to come.
If you doubt it step outside," suggested Kris Kringle.
Kris Kringle worked with the precision of an automatic gun and with proportionate speed.
Kris Kringle's face wore an expansive grin as he discovered the cause of the interruption.
From the slight vibration he knew that Kris Kringle was somewhere between himself and the top, yet not a sound did the guide make.
What he had found was a heavy tent stake, one that Kris Kringle had dropped from his bundle on the way to the cliff dweller's home.
Kris Kringle took a pot shot at one of the flashes, then slammed the door shut and barred it.
He did not know that Kris Kringle fully expected an ambush, nor that two would stand a better chance to get through and out-wit the savages than would half a dozen of them.
From that moment on, Kris Kringle was Santa Claus to the Pony Rider Boys.
Kris Kringle, leaping to the spot, thrusting the lantern down through the opening.
He was followed by the wondering Pony Rider Boys, Professor Zepplin and Kris Kringle in short order, for all crowded down through the narrow opening.
The chase came to an abrupt ending some few rods farther on, when Kris Kringle's lariat squirmed out, bringing the fleeing pony to the ground with its nose in the hot dust.
You'd better go and put on some clothes," suggestedKris Kringle.
Their shouts of merriment drifted back to the camp where Kris Kringle and Professor Zepplin were setting things to rights and preparing an early supper, the sun still being some hours high.
Mart laughed at sight of it, but to his surprise the Malay eagerly made the trade, and the kris was Bob's.
As he moved forward, Mart took precautions against the same danger, by pulling out the kris and sticking it into the wood again farther ahead.
That finishing blow of yours seems to have driven in the kris either through his throat or else through his mouth to the brain.
Something struck him and sent him staggering; then he had pulled the kris free.
The kris was stuck in the wreck at a corner, where the huge mass had split apart and had made a V-shaped opening.
Mart swiftly jerked up his kris and lunged forward with all his strength.
All I want, mates, is to get inside that there wreck, with that kris in my hand.
He did not have the kris with him, and he lay stretched out, unable to rise because of his heavy clothes and weights.
But remembering his great lightness in the water, remembering how easily he could leap out of danger, he stepped forward confidently from his shelter, the kris held ready.
But as Jerry had said, once he stood with his back against the wreck and the kris in his hand, he would be able to hold his own.
The instant those bubbles appeared, he knew there was danger; and the instant he hauled up the clean-severed ends, he guessed that the line and hose had brushed against the keen kris and had been parted.
As Jerry was interpreting the captain's address to him, Mart noticed that one of the men next to him wore a kris without any sheath.
You sure you've got that kris handy down there, Jerry?
In fishing, as well as in all their other employments, the kris and spear were invariably by their side.
Fifth boy: I stands for icy--for winter so icy; I stands for icy, when Kris drives along.
Sixth Child (Eskimo): My dolly is an Eskimo From near the Arctic Sea; Kris Kringle brought her in his sleigh On Christmas eve for me.
Then old Kris Kringle who loves a joke as well as the best, Dropped a handful of snowflakes into the oriole's empty nest.
Rick could do nothing at the moment anyway, except to swing the kris until his arm felt as though the muscles were on fire.
He tucked the pistol into his sash, and loosened the kris in its sheath.
But even as he borrowed Chahda's kris and started to run to the bow to cut the anchor rope, the first vinta slammed into the torpedo boat.
The kris was more swordlike, but it was a cutting weapon not used for stabbing.
Rick swung the kris like a flail, while the butt of Scotty's rifle slammed into bodies and heads.
The second weapon was a kris, about the same length, but with two cutting edges, both of which were wavy in typical kris fashion.
A Moro kris was crossed with a barong, and both weapons dripped blood.
Then they were fighting again, Rick wielding the kris with deadly effect, too frantic even to wonder why the Moros weren't fighting more fiercely.
The slaves of the reigning princes were very easily acquired, for a prince had only to send a messenger bearing a sword or kris to a house, and the parents were obliged to give up any one of their children without delay or question.
Mr. Douglas, who had got up his men in most imposing costume, anchored the Abdulsamat close to the Peking, and at once went on board, with the kris with the gold hilt and scabbard presented by the Sultan of Selangor.
They all carried parangs, or the short kris called a golo, and haying been told that the Malays were disarmed, I was surprised to see several muskets, a rifle, and about thirty spears on the wall.
Sighting the group of Americans the blood-crazed Mohammedan bounded toward them triumphantly, swinging a kris which no longer gleamed.
He balanced a great two-handed kris that gleamed like a row of stars where the headlight struck its polished corrugations.
They listened silently, and then their scarred old chief stepped forward and placed a naked kris in the white man's hand and kissed his feet.
It is a handsomer kris than those used by the actors in that much-studied picture of my youth.
Your English companies are taking it out of the land by the pikul In the old days, before the Portuguese came, the handle of every warrior's kris was of ivory.
Back of the throne were four young princes, two bearing each the golden bejewelled kris of the Malay, another the golden sword of state, and the fourth the cimeter of the Prophet.
I do not know whether mykris has ever taken life or not.
The golden handle of his kris shone like a dying coal in the centre of a circle of flamelike knives; then with one wild plunge forward, into the midst of the gleaming points, it went out.
For an instant the snake-like blade of the kris shone dully in the firelight above his head, and then with a yell that echoed far out among the palms, it descended straight into the heart of the nearest Malay.
The sarong and kris are distinctly and solely Malayan; they are shared with no other country; they are to be placed side by side with the green turban of the Moslem pilgrim and the cimeter of the Prophet.
Fires burned about among the graceful palms at night, and lit up the silken sarongs and polished kris handles of the men, and gold-run kabayas of the women.
The kris as a weapon of offence and defence is now almost a thing of the past.
Is it any wonder that the American boy is bewildered, standing there under the great banian tree with a Malay in sarong and krisby his side, singing with his syrah-stained lips the glorious promises of the Koran?
I went to the encyclopædia and found that the name of the knife was spelled kris and pronounced creese.
The sheath of the kris is generally made of kamooning wood, but often of ivory, gold, or silver.
All this while the Malay stood brandishing his kris and showing his teeth at us in a mocking smile, as if we were a set of the greatest cowards under the sun.
He turned like lightning on the lad, and raised his kris to throw; but a bullet was quicker, and he leaped into the air and fell dead without a cry, the kris dropping from his hand.
But as the kris flew the youth spurred his horse out of the ranks and down upon the murderer, who sprang back into the Bazaar.
He awoke and knew it was a dream; and there beside him stood Pango Dooni, in his dress of scarlet and gold and brown, his broadsword buckled on, a kris at his belt, and a rich jewel in his cap.
There was clattering of hoofs on Koongat Bridge, and the password of the clan came back to the lad, even as a kris struck him in the leg and drew out again.
Pango Dooni had also seen the kris thrown at himself, but he could not escape it, though he half swung round.
Even as he saw the figure of Boonda Broke disguised as a native soldier the half-breed's arm was raised, and a kris flew from his hands, aimed at the heart of Pango Dooni.
The kris of Boonda Broke is for the hearts of every one of us," said he.
He was standing with the crimson kris in his hand above the dog.
And elsewhere Boonda Broke was showing Cumner's Son how to throw a kris towards one object and make it hit another.
An' sa's the kris dantered adree his gullo, he was pash tassered, an' the panni welled in his yakkas.
An' he rakkered pauli, "The kris lelled mandys bavol ajaw.
It was the little scarlet military cap and the brightly tinted plaid sarong with kris at the waist which gave the Eastern tinge to his appearance.
Bent nearly double with his kris gripped in his right hand he kept in advance of us.
The hilt of a kris showed above the folds of his sarong, and the two lower buttons of the jacket were left open, so that the dagger might be free to his hand.
Which, by the way, reminds me how I caught this dreadful hacking cough: "I cut off the tail of my Ulster furred To make young Kris a coat of state.
If in any dispute between two people krises are drawn the person who first drew his kris shall be fined fourteen dollars.
If a person attempting to seize a man in the act of thieving shall get hold of any part of his clothes which are known, or his kris or siwah, this shall be deemed a sufficient token of the theft.
The value of a kris is supposed to be enhanced in proportion to the number of persons it has slain.
It may not be today, because the rajah will be looking over his presents, and will be in a good temper; but tomorrow they will come in and kris us.
Harry and Abdool had both armed themselves with a kris and spear.
We shall have the krises, and if they seize either of us, the other must go down and try and jab his kris into the beast's eyes.
Ten men had been killed by balls that had passed through the embrasures, or by kris or lance wounds, and twenty-eight others had been more or less severely wounded.
The rajah scowled at them, and from the manner in which he kept fingering his kris they saw that it needed a great effort on his part to abstain from killing them at once.
You ask him, Soh Hay, whether he wishes to be able to lead his tribe in battle again, or to go through life unable to use a kris or hurl a spear.
You could get close to him, and if he moves, catch up his kris and cut him down.
She saw no good Kris Kringle standing on the hearth, with his bag of toys.
She really thought it must be Christmas morning and that good Kris Kringle has suffered a bad fall.
It had cost infinite labor and urging to get Aunt Sarah to put her stocking in evidence for Kris Kringle; but there it was, a shapeless white affair with unbleached foot and top.
Fellows who know they'll have a kris stuck into them, and be pitched into the river if they let a prisoner escape, look out pretty sharp.
Frank, with a shudder, "I shall never wear that kris again.
Everybody wears a kris here," he continued, as he returned the weapon to his waistband.
I wint after him, sor, for he made me a bit mad shticking at me with his kris thing.
An English gentleman does not break his word," he said, giving the kris to the boy.
Ned; but the next moment he drew in his breath with a hiss, as if he suffered pain, for the executioner whipped out, from its wooden sheath at his waist, a short kris with a curved handle and a dull thin steel blade.
He felt the silken baju and sarong and the hilt of the kris against him, and then he went down heavily.
These were the rajah's sword-bearers, and each held by the ornamental sheath a kris or parang of singular workmanship, with the hilt resting against the right shoulder.
It was time, for the Malays dashed forward, kris in hand, but from out of the cave a scattered volley of revolver shots greeted them so warmly that two dropped, and the others fell back, followed by their wounded companions.
If you see a fellow with his kris in his waist uncovered, that means war, so cock your pistol and look out.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kris" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
