Er was alleen verschil van meening of ik verdrinken zou, dan wel bestemd was mijn nek te breken; voor het laatste deed ik genoeg mijn best door als een aap in het tuig op en neer te vliegen.
Het eene was namelijk door zijn mond gegaan, het tweede in de hersenpan en het derde waarschijnlijk in of bij de hersenpan, terwijl alle drie tot heel achter in den nek en in 't hoofd doorgedrongen waren.
We could hear General Clery pounding Laing's Nek with the two 4.
General Buller and his Staff rode along our guns evidently very pleased, and indeed the force had won a brilliant little victory which cleared our way effectually and turned Laing's Nek besides.
The excellent marksmanship of the Naval Brigade, and the skilful distribution of their fire, contributed materially to the successful result of the attack on Allemann's Nek on June 11th.
I rode over to Laing's Nek with Captain Jones and Lieutenants Hunt and Steel, taking Charlestown on our way and getting up to the railway tunnel where Clery's Division is encamped.
All that was needed was Christian patience and good will to kindle and encourage kindly feeling between the conquering and the subject race; time would have done the rest.
How popular hostility was aroused and strengthened is illustrated in a letter addressed, in 1208, by Innocent III to the Count of Nevers.
If that drift and the Brakfontein Nek were seized, the way would be opened to the rolling plain which lies westward of Ladysmith, between that town and the Tabanyama range.
The railway from East London to Bloemfontein and the main road from Molteno to Burghersdorp, viâ Stormberg, cross a Nek between the Kissieberg and Rooi Kop, subsequently skirting the latter hill very closely.
As regards the Natal frontier its salient confers on the enemy facilities for cutting our line of communications, and for outflanking at pleasure the positions of Laing's Nek and the Biggarsberg.
While the embarkation of the field force was proceeding, news of the loss of the greater part of two battalions of infantry and a mountain battery at Nicholson's Nek reached England.
The column was here in perfect order, the road to the Nek was good, and there was promise of about two hours of darkness to conceal the remainder of the march.
His Intelligence staff had ascertained that the actual strength of the Boers in laager at that moment was about 1,700, and that the southern face of the Kissieberg and the Nek between that hill and Rooi Kop were entrenched.
Between the Basuto border and Laing's Nek lies the chief strategic interest of the Drakensberg.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nek" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
