Pauline was zeer nieuwsgierig en wilde weten, waarom oom Versuylen en zijne dame zoo spoedig opstonden; was het tijd om te vertrekken, ze meende dat het nog zeer vroeg was.
Ook de Koningin had haar gehoord, en na dat Adonisfeest was Antonius door haar oom Arius in haar huis binnengeleid.
Doch nauwelijks had hij bespeurd wat hem bedreigde, en zich haar gezegde herinnerd, dat zijn groote oom alleen voor haar en voor den dood had moeten zwichten, of het gelukte hem ook weder, zijn snel ontvlamde zinnen te beheerschen.
Besides, he is older and knows a great deal, being in the Government railroads.
In a strange, inspired voice, he cried softly: "A toast!
As she finished, we heard Gavrilo calling her name from the street, and a moment later he came in through the garden gate.
I wished to do as Gavrilo said, but as my relative had caught it and given it to me I felt I should first speak to him.
So I told him the tale, from the time of my going to Karen until the time of my coming to Kalgai town and the arrival of Pra Oom Bwaht.
Pra Oom Bwaht smiled again, got up and stalked out.
It was Pra Oom Bwaht, who smiled down on us with his twisty smile.
If I followed your example," Oom Koos retorted, "I would not be that.
Not since the hour when he had turned his back upon the white walls of Benfontein and driven beside Oom Koos Marais across the blackened veld, had he experienced such heaviness of spirit.
He is a lazy schelm," put in Oom Koos, his customary amiability temporarily eclipsed behind his disapproval of the talk.
He imagined he detected satisfaction in Andreas' eyes, and suspected Oom Koos' habitual twinkle of being assumed at his expense.
Whereat Oom Koos laughed gently, refusing in his amiable good nature to take this cynical conclusion seriously.
It is a fine agricultural country," Oom Koos proceeded.
Most men trusted Oom Koos; Oom Koos in turn trusted no man, and only one woman--his wife.
If you ever travel by Three Sisters come to my farm--any one will tell you where Oom Koos Marais lives.
With the finish of breakfast Oom Koos announced his intention to start.
Henriëtte vraagt, of gij niet een boodschap aan haar oom zoudt kunnen zenden, die anders in ongerustheid zou wezen over zijn lieve zoontje.
Met een diepen zucht zocht ik dus slechts heil in philosophische overdenkingen en herinnerde mij de gedachten van Gil Blas in het roovershol: »Ziehier den waardigen neef van mijn oom Gil Perez, als een rat in de val geloopen.
Toen ik van school gedrost was, omdat het me daar te droog was, besloot oom dat ik in zijn zog zou gaan varen.
In 't eerst is men in een dwaze houding; men maakt bijna een mal figuur.
Och, mijne goede Van den Aanzett, toen wij te zamen bij uw waardigen oom in de Amstelstraat het vak in onze jeugd beoefenden, was het een ander vak en een andere tijd.
And this was not Oom Paul, but one whom he had betrayed, whose wife he had sought to ruin, whose subordinate he had turned into a traitor.
He knew so much that was useful--to Oom Paul; but what he knew he did not himself convey, though it reached those who welcomed it eagerly and grimly.
The Baas is gone to find a rope to tieOom Paul to a tree, as Oom Paul tied you at Lichtenburg.
On the very day in which Oom Paul would send his ultimatum, the means came to his hand.
To-morrow" was here, and it would bring the challenge from Oom Paul to try the might of England against the iron courage of those to whom the Vierkleur was the symbol of sovereignty from sea to sea and the ruin of the Rooinek.
But Oom Paul flayed you at Vleifontein; tied you up and skinned you with a sjambok.
They'll catch him at Doornkop or thereabouts, if I know myself--and Oom Paul.
He help Oom Paul against the Rooinek--against the Philistine.
Dit is ook zoo'n ongelukkig land, waar onze oom regent over is; de bevolking ziet ieder jaar met angst en beven den westmoesson tegemoet, die altoos 't land verdrinkt.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oom" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
