Kalulu would act differently from this youth if he were in his place; he would have taken the pombe and then killed me as soon as he had the opportunity.
Pots full ofpombe and plantain-wine were ranged a little distance off, from which the dancers and the singers could regale themselves when they felt disposed.
Ask this tallest one why will he not take this cup of pombe from the hand of Ferodia, chief of the Watuta warriors.
Said he, "Bring me two score of sheep; Bring me pombe in pots thus deep; Bring me ten goats of the best class, Thy son may take my pretty lass.
Two or three huge pots of pombe failed to satisfy the raging thirst which the vigorous exercise they were engaged in, created.
As the pombe was but stale ale in taste, and milk and water in colour, after drinking a small glassful I passed it to the delighted soldiers and pagazis.
This important arrangement being conceded by the king more promptly than we expected, a cow, plantains, and pombe were requested; but the cow only was given, though our men were said to be feeding on grass.
Now, with a promise that the compass would be sent him in the morning, he said he would see what pombe his women could spare us; and, bidding good evening, walked away.
On hearing the king's order that I was to be supplied with fish, the fishermen ran away, and pombe was no longer brewed for fear of Kasoro.
The meeting then broke up in the same chilling manner as it began, and we returned as we came, but no sooner reached home than four pots of pombe were sent us, with a hope that we had arrived all safely.
The reply was, that if Bombay did not return within four days, Kamrasi would send other men after him on the fifth day; and, in the meantime, he sent one pot of pombe as a token of his kind regard.
The queen and her ministers then plunged into pombe and became uproarious, laughing with all their might and main.
Kali placed above his grave a cross made of bamboo, while the negroes left a few utensils with pombe and smoked meat "in order that he should not annoy and haunt them during the night-time.
Pombe in this condition is a solid tipple, which comes as near being both food and drink as anything of an intoxicating nature can be, and many an African chief all but lives on it.
The chiefs, however, are as a general thing animated pombe sponges, constantly soaked and with the gourd seldom out of reach.
I doubt if anything weaker than milletpombe is ever drunk inside the royal boma.
These visitors had been drinking freely of pombe to keep up their courage.
The father of Meréré never drank pombe or beer, and assigned as a reason that a great man who had charge of people's lives should never become intoxicated so as to do evil.
Casembe sent us another large basket of fire-dried fish in addition to that sent us at Chungu, two baskets of flour, one of dried cassava, and a pot of pombe or beer.
We came in the midst of a general jollification, and were most bountifully supplied with pombe and food.
He is said to be an enormously bloated old man, who cannot move unless carried, and women are constantly in attendance pouring pombe into him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pombe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
