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Example sentences for "natal"

  • Another year is quickly past, And Angus hails another son; His natal day is like the last, Nor soon the jocund feast was done.

  • From natal bed to mortuary box happiness escapes us--the faster, the more we pursue it.

  • I do not believe that Mrs. Cleveland is particeps criminis in these pre-natal proclamations to which the h'upper suckkles of New York are so shockingly addicted.

  • The spirited defence of Rorke's Drift saved Natal from a Zulu invasion, and Chard's and Bromhead's gallantry was rewarded with the V.

  • Cetywayo was, however, suspicious of the Natal government, which afforded protection to two of his brothers.

  • Cetywayo's attitude became menacing; he allowed a minor chief to make raids into the Transvaal, and seized natives within the Natal border.

  • Cetywayo was a young man when in 1840 his father was placed on the throne by the aid of the Natal Boers; and three years later Natal became a British colony.

  • Friendly relations were then maintained between the Zulus and Natal for many years.

  • Cape Colony, at Vereeniging, Boksburg and elsewhere in the Transvaal, in Natal and in Swaziland.

  • Nevertheless, whether voluntarily or whether fixed to the natal soil by social necessities, he has limited the field of his fantastic pursuits to the very limits of old Flanders.

  • A man journeys through the world bearing with him a coffer that contains free natal earth; he carries his love.

  • The Major was an original student of theories and facts of Heredity and Pre-natal Influence.

  • Further he was not wholly hopeful as to the effect of all the post-natal influences likely to be brought to bear upon a child who grew up in the bungalow, and the dislike of Colonel Matthew Devon de Warrenne.

  • Seated in a third smoker, on the way to his natal city of Blackhampton, upon which he had not set eyes for seven long and incredible years, the emotions of Henry Harper were very complex.

  • As for the sequel, involving a farewell to the wharf of Antcliff and Jackson, Limited, and a triumphal return to his natal city as a salaried player of the Rovers, even when this had really happened, it was very hard to believe.

  • You have heard of Umdava, who used to eat men in Natal long ago, after the wars of Tshaka--well, he was my uncle.

  • Thou wast some foundling whom the Hours Nursed, laughing, with the milk of Mirth; Some influence more gay than ours Hath ruled thy nature from its birth, As if thy natal stars were flowers That shook their seeds round thee on earth.

  • Thus pass'd the days on England's happy strand, Till the dear mem'ry of their natal land Sigh'd for the banks of Tagus.

  • Natal is not a nice country, for women at all events, to walk in.

  • The sweet-scented verbena is one of the commonest and most successful shrubs in a Natal garden, and just now the large bushes of it which one sees in every direction are covered by tapering spikes of its tiny white blossoms.

  • Mrs. Porter herself would have put it down to some atavistic tendency or pre-natal influence.

  • A young man has forsaken his natal city in the depths of one of the departments, rather clearly marked by M.

  • The young man who is the object of this exportation, invariably passes in his natal town for a man of as much imagination as the most famous author.

  • On the East Coast the London Missionary Society has wrought among the warlike Kaffirs, and other British societies are labouring in Natal among the Zulus.

  • It is woman's first' to give bias to the brain cells and soul impulses of ante-natal and post-natal infantile life.

  • Mr. Clifford drew a copy of the Natal Mercury of the previous day from the pocket of his ulster, and while she waited in an agony he hunted through the long columns descriptive of the loss of the Zanzibar.

  • By his side was a Natal Zulu, Robert Seymour's driver, who could speak English and acted as interpreter.

  • He was wealthy as things went in those days--that is to say, he had lots of land in Natal and the Transvaal, and great herds of stock.

  • As a girl of fourteen she had left Natal with her parents and had "trekked," with other families, through the wild waste of country, into the unknown and barbaric regions in which she was destined to spend her youth.

  • Europe as he had come, via Natal and Delagoa Bay, well satisfied that his mission should have been accomplished with so much ease.

  • It was proposed by the settlers to proclaim the Republic of Natalia, but on the appearance of a strong British force, they subsided quietly, and Natal was placed under the control of the Governor of the Cape.

  • The productions of Natal are even more varied than those of the Cape, while arrowroot, sugar, cotton, and Indian corn are staple articles.

  • The myriads of spectators who gazed at that natal emblem might well have thought that his life's star was now at its zenith.

  • This passionate utterance, penned by Napoleon Buonaparte at the beginning of the French Revolution, describes the state of Corsica in his natal year.

  • To combat the evils of infant mortality, natal and pre-natal care is not sufficient.

  • Natal has now peace by you; we have peace by you because God and the Queen sent you.

  • If the Zulu wished to remember Kambula and Ulundi, this would be his supreme opportunity to rise and hurl himself across the Natal frontier.

  • Arthur Harwood kept his work and left by the steamer for Natal two days afterwards; and in the same steamer Mr. Despard took passage also, declaring his intention to enlist on the side of the Zulus.

  • I am surprised myself to find myself here, but papa would not hear of my remaining at Natal when he went on to the frontier with the regiment, so I am staying with a friend in Cape Town.

  • Yes, he left in the steamer for Natal two hours ago.

  • I go round to Natal in two days, and then to my work in the camp.

  • She knew that the fact of her having persuaded this Mr. Markham to accompany her to Natal would cause his name to be joined with hers pretty frequently, and in her innocence she had no objection to make to this.

  • But the hearing of the gun of the mail steamer that was to convey the special correspondent to Natal was the pleasantest sensation Mrs. Crawford had experienced for long.

  • He was in the uniform of a Natal volunteer.

  • Mr. Markham had given his portmanteau into the charge of one of the Natal Zulus, and then he turned to Harwood.

  • His natal soil, had it been the haunt of Calmucks or Bedouins, his fancy would have transformed into Paradise.

  • Those images which bind us to our natal soil, to the abode of our innocent and careless youth, were recalled to her fancy by the scenes which she now beheld.

  • It is evident therefore that mankind differs in natal capacity and intrinsic intellectual endowment.


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