He told me of his experiences in German Southwest Africa, and of the ways of the natives there.
This is for our benefit, for the natives do not mind these insects as much as we do.
The natives love these birds and make great pets of them.
We would not call it music at all, but the natives seem to like it.
We found that the natives made boats and furniture, as well as houses, from the trunk of this palm tree.
Among these last are Germans, Swedes, Danes, Russians, Frenchmen, descendants of Moorish Jews and of natives of the Canary Islands.
The natives compose much of their own music, and wild, strange melody it is.
Another very useful tree to the natives is the calabash, or gourd tree.
Dusky natives in landing boats are soon alongside, and we learn to our surprise that our ship does not go to the dock.
A revolution followed in which the greater number of the natives were killed.
The kindness of the natives was rewarded by cruelty on the part of the Spaniards.
It was one of the natives that Geoffrey had seen in the hollow of the cliffs that eventful day.
They were Indian natives of some kind, but of what race precisely Geoffrey could not say.
And because each in his or her way had had a share in making that house a Neighborhood House, the valley people, natives and cottagers alike, promptly and without any self-consciousness turned heartily in and used the house.
An infirmary that could be used by the natives for long illnesses, and by the city cottagers for emergency operations was vitally needed; so our Neighborhood House has a sunny airy infirmary and a perfectly equipped little operating room.
The decision then formed and acted on alone rendered possible the employment of natives of India in the higher branches of the administration.
These are made to play almost every evening, when the gardens are much frequented by the European gentlemen and ladies of the station, and by natives of all religions and sects.
This difference between the two societies is fundamental, and its reality is fully recognized by natives of India.
He is also aided by well-paid Inspectors, who are for the most part natives of India.
On the death of her husband she was requested to take command of the force by all the Europeans and natives that composed it, as the only possible mode of keeping them together, since the son was known to be altogether unfit.
Beware how you lay ill names, in my presence, upon the natives of this soil!
My lord is a stranger, not acquainted with the superior character of the natives of this soil.
But the natives showed little desire to take the travelers in their boats over the long sea trip, and the boy, knowing the urgency of the case, was at his wits' end.
The party of Eskimo was on its way to Point Barrow, where most of the natives expected to winter, and as they planned to trade, had an interpreter with them.
The few necessaries of the party, the maps and records were trans-shipped without delay, the natives duly paid and rewarded, mail secured, and in less than ten minutes from touching the shore the men were on board the cutter.
The natives seemed to be so friendly and the opportunity for making money was so good that he determined to make it a permanent little settlement; he brought his wife to the place, and made arrangements for other families to follow.
Since winter was drawing on, moreover, he argued that the natives would not be going up the river, and therefore, if they followed the other channel and turned seaward the next day, they might overtake the Eskimo.
It has the appearance of a large black dog, with long shaggy hair, and, as the natives express it, "eyes as big as saucers.
Of the natives of New South Wales, Turnbull remarked at the beginning of the nineteenth century that "their mode of courtship is not without its singularity.
Zundt lived at Nuremberg, his great contemporaries, Virgil Solis and Erasmus Hornick being natives of the same city.
Another theory traces the Celtic brooch from a combination of a long pin with the ancient dress fasteners--penannular rings furnished with knobs--such as are found in prehistoric graves, and are even now worn by the natives of West Africa.
The natives of the fertile country of Friesland possess vast stores of jewellery, generally of gold set with diamonds.
Not only is it displayed in abundance on festal occasions, such as weddings, but it is worn in everyday life by the well-to-do natives of the country districts.
Madagascar, and thence has been widely disseminated), are natives of Africa.
Enough of the rocky surface is covered with a thin coating of soil to enable the natives to grow yams, taro, bananas, &c.
The natives are of Papuan type, and practise cannibalism.
These natives form the bulk of the Africans who work in the Rand gold mines.
For many years the natives had a reputation as dangerous cannibals, but they are now among the most civilized Melanesians.
But the natives of Italy and the West do not seem to have been contented with copying the Theban monks at a distance.
At Ceylon was a Christian church, with a priest and a deacon, frequented by the Christians from Persia, while the natives of the place were pagans.
Many other natives of Syria soon followed Severus to Alexandria; so many indeed that as Greek literature decayed in that city, Syriac literature rose.
The Russian Government had organized a strong company to trade for furs with the natives of the Pacific coast.
In spite of Mr. Astor's injunction to keep Indians off the ship and MacKay's warning that the Nootka tribes were treacherous, the captain allowed natives to swarm over his decks.
The crime of corrupting natives can never be laid to the free trapper.
He was alone in a camp of wild, ignorant natives who moved at the nod of Pasquale.
After he had eaten, the young man drifted across to one of the gambling-houses that invited the patronage of Americans and natives alike.
So rapidly did they adopt and improve the Roman civilization of the natives that, from a rude tribe of heathen Vikings, they had developed within a single century into the most polished and intellectual people in all Europe.
Thus Italian, Spanish, and French were originally different dialects of the vulgar Latin, slightly modified by the mingling of the Roman soldiers with the natives of the conquered provinces.
Most gorillas killed by natives are believed by Mr Bates to have been encountered suddenly in the daytime on the ground or in low trees in the outlying clearings.
They are, however, devoid of any injurious physiological action, and are much esteemed as a spice by the natives of Guinea.
The natives of Gotland speak a dialect distinguished from that of any part of the Swedish mainland.
The natives gazed at the landau, hardly wondering at it; then they forgot it.
A little further down the banks were several nativesmaking a raft, and I strolled down to have a look at them.
But Mustafa's name was still only mentioned in whispered words of awe, and this not by plundered natives alone, but by Turkish regulars and Turkish officials alike.
The natives live in the tombs and in caves cut out of the rocks.
He would have made any warm desert scene look cold, as it would not be obvious that he was perspiring, and in any group of picturesque natives he would look ludicrous.
Constantin began preparing the evening meal, and the natives hung round in groups staring at us, or bringing in supplies of fuel and milk and eggs.
Officials rushed up and down the platform, and swore at the natives who were loading our baggage.
The natives lining the streets shouted encouragingly; finally we landed at the Dervish mosque.
In one moment we were hemmed in by an angry, buzzing mob; there was no mistaking the glaring menaces of their expressions and the significant handling of the long knives worn by all natives in their belts.
A mud wall separated it from a collection of mud huts; here live the natives employed in removing the sand which buries the architectural monuments of ancient times.
In this instance we discovered another treachery of the natives towards us, and which we found it impossible to account for, considering their kindness towards us in many other respects.
The food of the natives must henceforth be for our support.
The bread used among the natives was made by boiling a vine, which they find on the ground in those places where the snow melts off during summer.
When the fowl are sufficiently near for their purpose, the natives rise up, and throw, with singular force and precision, these balls at the flock of passing ducks.
We went with the natives into the settlement, and were immediately conducted into the presence of a very old woman, who marked one side of our faces with two lines, and our hands in the same manner, with a burnt stick.
But how far it was east of us, or the circumstances attending the wreck, how many were saved or lost, or whether all were lost, we obtained no satisfactory information from the natives at that time.
The natives select the bleakest spot in the region for their settlements, where the wind blows without any obstruction.
Report by theNatives that our Men were frozen to Death.
The day following, preparations were made by ourselves, in connection with the natives and their dog teams, to visit the wreck.
Being cast helpless and almost destitute upon such a desolate coast, they had to depend principally upon the kindness and generosity of the natives for protection, food, and clothing.
One of the most common diseases among the natives appeared to be that of worms--originating, probably, from the character of their diet.
It was from such storehouses as these that the natives drew out their chief support for the winter, and nearly for the whole year.
The coming of a typhoon is well known to the natives at least twenty-four hours beforehand, and every preparation is made for it.
So far as the natives go, the change will assuredly have been for the worse; for the aborigines, in all parts of the world, lose their primitive simplicity and soon acquire the worst vices of civilisation.
On our arrival at Golden Grove, there was a great turn-out of the natives to welcome their young lord and 'massa.
He was consoled, however, by seeing the next regiment, which consisted of natives of Ulster, turn off to a man.
In the spring a French army might land in Ireland; the natives might again rise in arms from Donegal to Kerry; and the war, which was now all but extinguished, might blaze forth fiercer than ever.
The most enlightened natives of India were scarcely aware that England existed.
The vanquished and disarmed natives assisted, with suppressed grief and anger, at the triumph of the caste which they had, five months before, oppressed and plundered with impunity.
The natives of the Caucasus," says Cuvier, "are even now considered as the handsomest on earth.
Here a new cancer-like degenerative disease had been appearing among the natives of the planet.
With its vast snow-fields and great mountain ranges, the planet was a popular resort area for oxygen-breathing creatures; most of the natives were engaged in some work related to winter sports.
You claim that I brought harm to two hundred of the natives there, yet if you study our notes and records, you will see that our errors there were unavoidable.
The demands upon his time were constant and pressing, for he was looked up to as the savior of the colony, while the simple natives regarded him almost as a father, and came to him for advice on all occasions.
That is--that shall be--the object of my endeavors, and to that the getting of captives and the plundering of natives shall be subordinate.
The governor of Santo Domingo at that time was Don Francisco de Bobadilla, who, though but a year or so in office, had already committed irreparable wrongs upon the natives of the island.
Great trees, their roots in the earth of opposite banks, mingled their verdant crowns together, and over their trunks (as though formed by nature for this purpose) climbed the natives of the region when they wished to cross the stream.
In the season of rains, which is now, gold, in great nuggets large as eggs, is washed down by the torrents, and all the natives do to collect it is to stretch nets across the streams.
What, then, was his astonishment to find the redoubtable Vasco Nunez de Balboa, Conqueror of the Mountains, and Pacificator of the Indians, overseeing a group of natives who were engaged in thatching his humble hut with straw!
At Pescocalascio it was the mysterious influence of the mountains and valleys themselves which seemed always to be annihilating the Englishwoman: nay, not only her, but the very natives themselves.
And the two natives seemed to press their cheer on Alvina and Ciccio whole-heartedly.
But the natives shied off as if he had offered them the poisoned robes of Herakles.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "natives" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
