And so he raised Olifant to his lips and blew a dying blast that echoed down the cliffs and up to the mountain tops and rang through the trees of the forest.
There he found Turpin, the horn Olifant by his side, and knew that it was in trying to fetch him water that the brave bishop had died, and for tenderness and pity the hero wept.
Mine olifant is cleft, Its gems and gold all scattered by the blow.
The Count Rollánd in his great anguish blows His olifant so mightily, with such Despairing agony, his mouth pours forth The crimson blood, and his swol'n temples burst.
Then, counting over his great victories, he placed it and the olifant beneath him, and committed his soul to the Father, who sent down his angels to bear it to Paradise.
Came to Bordeaux the city of great price, And on the shrine of Baron St. Seurin, The olifant Charles laid, filled full with gold, And to this day pilgrims can see it there.
Has not your Grace heard that Basil Olifant has collected several gentlemen and men of substance in the west, and is in the act of marching to join them?
But this Basil Olifantis a Nabal, a Demas, a base churl whose wealth and power are at the disposal of him who can threaten to deprive him of them.
He advanced at a hand gallop towards Olifant, and was in the act of demanding why he had thus beset the road, when Olifant called out, "Shoot the traitor!
Olifant is a magistrate, and will have some of his own people that he can trust along with him.
Old Olifant died that winter, and the unthrifty sons ceased to clear the Swamp or mend the wire fences.
VIII Old Olifant had doubtless a right to burn all those brush-piles in the east and south of the Swamp and to clear up the wreck of the old barbed-wire hog-pen just below the spring.
It also was the work of a woodchuck, a well-meaning friendly neighbor, but a harebrained youngster whose skin in the form of a whiplash was now developing higher horse-power in the Olifant working team.
There on the altar of the Baron Saint Sevrin, Carle lays the olifant filled full Of marks and gold, where pilgrims view it still.
The Count Rollánd in his great anguish blows His olifant so mightily, with such Despairing agony, his mouth pours forth The crimson blood, and his swoll'n temples burst.
The Emperor Carle His trumpets bid resound, and the olifant Whose blast 'whelms all.
Many clans, some large and some small, had inhabited the fertile valleys of the Drakensberg between what is now Wakkerstroom and the Olifant River.
Of all the lovely scenes through which I have wandered, the landscapes along the Olifant and the Letaba dwell in my memory as the loveliest.
Sixty miles away to the north-east, but clearly visible in the rarefied mountain air, towered the mighty gates through which the Olifant River roared down to meet the Letaba.
Mulcahy and I first met at the Rotunda Creek Rush, and when that abode of "wild cat" collapsed, we arranged to take a prospecting trip towards the Olifant River.
His Last Prayer Then he flung himself on the ground under a pine-tree with his face to the earth, his sword and Olifant beneath him, his face to the foe, that Charlemagne and the Franks might see when they came that he died victorious.
The old cowolifant Susie, carrying Sears, fretted at the delay, sampling the air and rumbling.
Even during the long ordeal of the rains he had gone alone for whole days and nights, following olifant trails, sitting in patience where a broad-leaf tree they enjoyed was abundant.
The entrance of the Limpopo river is in 25 degrees 17 minutes South latitude, and about three miles broad, which it continues to be up to the junction of the Olifant river, gradually narrowing towards the north.
The trumpets sound, their voice is very clear, And the olifant its echoing music speaks.
On the olifant deign now to sound a blast; Were the King here, we should not fear damage.
But my great one, my olifant I broke; Fallen from it the crystal and the gold.
That Emperour has bid them sound trumpets; And the olifantsounds over all its knell.
In front, in rear, they sounded their trumpets, Above them all boomed the olifant again.
CXXXV The count Rollanz, though blood his mouth doth stain, And burst are both the temples of his brain, His olifant he sounds with grief and pain; Charles hath heard, listen the Franks again.
He advanced at a hand gallop; Olifant called out, "Shoot the traitor!
His servants fired and Basil Olifant and a dragoon were stretched lifeless on the ground.
However, away down near the junction of the Olifant and the Letaba was a locality which he had previously visited with satisfactory results.
That night they camped just below the enormous gates through which the Olifant breaks to reach the low country.
Krishna: The night is late, the fair one timorous and fearful: When will she of the olifant gait be here?
The feast of honey is prepared,-- Only forget the Archer's cruelty, Touching her bosom gently As an olifant a lily.
This notable leader was discovered on the 15th of July at Laatstedrift, on the right bank of the Olifant River, whither Colonel Benson had moved after the arrival of a convoy brought by General Spens from the railway to Brinkwater.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "olifant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
