With the crop in his hand, he smote indiscriminately at his gaitered legs or the bags of mealies and other merchandise surrounding him.
In the square hut, the other passengers were gathered round the usual meal: goat chops, potatoes, a steaming dish of green mealies boiled on the cob.
Jack can take a kettle and frying-pan, and the natives their blankets and twenty pounds of mealie flour for themselves and five times as much mealies for the horses.
The natives parched some mealies (Indian corn) in the frying-pan when the bacon was done, the fat serving as a condiment that they highly appreciated, and they quenched their thirst from the spring.
We are sure to be able to buy mealiesand a bullock when we want one from the natives.
The different routes were discussed, and the position of kraals, at which mealies for the five natives and the horses could be purchased, and meat possibly obtained.
While the tea is getting ready," Chris said, "we had better give a good feed of mealies to all the horses.
We still have our water-skins; the Kaffirs had better get them filled at once, and a good supply of mealies for the horses on the way; there is no saying how long we may be.
The knapsack must not be filled with kaboe mealies (roasted maize) for one's self, while the nosebag of the poor horse remains empty.
Our horses became quite sleek again from the abundance of mealiesthey got there.
I fled to Tivee Buffelgeschiet with two boiled mealies and a piece of meat in my hands.
Ah, well, it can wait, sonny; but it's time the kettle were put on and the mealies roasted.
It's worth nothin', 'cos all the mealies been shelled off.
The next morning Abe was stamping mealies with a wooden pestle in a wooden mortar made from a tree trunk.
The trap he used was an old calabash or gourd with a round hole in it about an inch in diameter; and a few pumpkin seeds and mealies and a hard crust of bread, just small enough to get into the calabash, formed the bait.
Furley dropped on a sack of mealiesgroaning out "Glory, Boys!
She made a garden, and she and the other girl worked in it; I tell you I didn't need to buy a sixpence of food for them in six months, and I used to sell green mealies and pumpkins to all the fellows about.
The men laughed and chatted round the fire, while the big Colonial ladled out the mealies and rice into tin plates, and passed them round to the men.
He had been travelling with a dozen men who were taking provisions of mealies and rice to the next camp.
And we have to live on themealies we're convoying for the horses, while he has pati and beef, and lives like a lord!
What is now known as the 'donkeys and mealies scandal' was one of them.
In the matter of the mealies (maize, the ordinary native food), large quantities were bought in South America.
There was always plenty of work for them to do in the fields, weeding mealies and minding amabele (Kafir corn) gardens--keeping the destructive little birds away from eating them.
It is generally observed at the season when the mealies and mabele (Kafir corn) are coming into flower.
His parents often went to see him, and his sister brought him presents of mealies and sweet potatoes.
They often sprinkle the mealies and mabele with some of the beer, for luck to the harvest.
The only part of it they keep up is taking a dose of the mixture each year before eating green mealies or vegetables.
Carhayes, while they were breakfasting on boiledmealies and ration beef.
In former days, meat was very sparingly eaten among the Amaxosa races, milk and mealies being the staple articles of diet.
Then, returning to the storeroom, he filled up a large measure of mealies and went to the house.
The curdled milk andmealies were both refreshing and satisfying.
No get mealies now," said the woman, interrupting the boy's musings.
If I know, I should dake two pig wagon to dem place, all vull of mealies und goot dings, und dell die beebles die diamonds vas here; und vhen dey gom to vind, I should zell mein goot dings und go und vetch zom move.
Zo you gom vrom Kopfontein all py youzelf to puy mealies and dea, and goffee and sugars?
The days he spent up a tall tree, whence he could watch all that went on in the town beneath, living meanwhile on some food which he carried in a bag tied to the saddle, helped out by green mealies which he stole from a neighbouring field.
Then we came to some fields of mealies that were, I noticed, quite untouched by the hailstorm, which, it would seem, had confined its attentions to the land of the Black Kendah.
Our road ran past but not through some villages whence we saw many women and children staring at us, and through beautiful crops of mealies and other sorts of grain that in this country were now just ripening.
After that I threw some more of the large sugar mixed with mealies to the fowls that we brought with us for cooking.
Mealies (extensively used as food for cattle and horses) are very largely grown by the coloured population and Kaffir corn almost exclusively so.
Oats are grown over a wider area than any other crop, and next to mealies are the heaviest crop grown.
They carried also sacks of mealies and Kaffir corn (the latter a kind of millet) with which to feed the horses.
He had seen mealies and oats reaped, and assisted in other operations.
This pot was half full of mealies already cooked, and which he simply meant to warm for his supper.
By and by the mealies began to "pop" in the pot, so guest and host began to chew them.
Bessie sank on a half-emptied sack of mealies and tried to reflect.
Besides, the cart will be nearly empty, so I can carry a muid of mealies and fifty bundles of forage.
There she was thrust into the store-room, which was half full of loose potatoes and mealies in sacks, and the door locked upon her.
Thank ye, sir," said Briggs stolidly; "but I should like to get the beef for the boys and a load ofmealies for the horses before we talk about that.
We could send them out every night, and they'd come back laden with mealies for us; and there you are.
We could see plainly enough that the Boers were unloading the wagons, and the Kaffirs hard at work carrying bags which no doubt contained mealies or flour.
Coming to fetch wagons and plenty mealies and flour.
Mounted on hardy Basuto ponies, carrying no provisions but a few mealies and a little biltong, armed only with rifles, they sweep incessantly from place to place, and are an everlasting source of annoyance to us.
Down they tumbled, horses and men, mashed like mealies in the millstones.
After a long and gentle boiling the mealies are as tender as young peas, and it is difficult for a stranger to believe that they have not been cooked in milk.
There was, after all, no bread, but mealies were given instead, both for the men and for ourselves.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mealies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
