He first discharged his roer at the nearest and foremost of the honden, which went rolling over with a howl.
It did not even succeed in finishing that, being abruptly silenced by a bullet that dropped it dead in its tracks; the loud report of the roer replacing the animal's voice in prolonged reverberation over the plain.
Handing the roer he was carrying to one of his sons, after much fumbling he produced a book from his pocket, in which the place was marked with a piece of grass.
Thinking that after their fashion they were preparing to attack us at dawn, I called the news to the others, whereon Marais rushed forward, just as he had left his bed, cocking his roer as he came.
Groot Willem was at length within range, and was about to level his roer on the game, when the movements of the little animal caused him to hold his hand.
He knew nothing about them; and with either rifle or roer he could scarcely have hit an elephant, much less an ostrich!
It was with a heavy heart that he did so--for he had for many years entertained an ardent longing to try his roer upon the huge thick-skinned quadrupeds that now roamed far beyond the frontier of the settlements.
Groot Willem had levelled his roer for a chance shot, when he thought of the unpleasant consequences of a "miss;" and reluctantly bringing down his piece he permitted the blesboks to sweep past.
His roer was levelled; and, glancing through his ivory sights, he fired the large ball through the thickest part of the reptile's body.
It still wanted nearly two hours of sunset, and the hunter, observing a reddish object at a distance that looked like some animal, shouldered his roer and proceeded towards it.
On the opposite bank it was too distant for the a carry of their guns--even the elephant roer could not have sent a bullet to that side with any chance of hitting.
Inspired either by pity or revenge, he sent a bullet from his roer into the head of the struggling skeleton; and, throwing himself into the saddle, he turned the head of his horse once more towards the house.
Just as he was about to raise the roer to his shoulder and take aim at one of the condemned captives, a large party of dark-skinned men made their appearance upon the spot.
Groot Willem stepped in front of it, and was raising the long barrel of his roer to the level of one of the elephant's eyes, when he was stopped by two or three of the blacks, who rushed forward and restrained him from discharging the piece.
I am not yet so hungry as to leave my roer behind me; therefore, I second your proposal," said Groot Willem.
Groot Willem instantly brought the roerto his shoulder and fired.
The loud crack of the roer seemed to echo far-away through the forest, and anxiously they listened for some response to the sound.
Willem as he brought the roer to his shoulder; "it may be needed.
But before he could touch his trigger, Willem's roerdelivered its loud report, and the thief fell forward on to the fire.
As it turned side towards them, Willem fired, and the large heavy bullet from the roer went crashing through the creature's ribs.
Mingled with the struggling mass were seen some of the camelopards; and, fearing they might be subjected to the destroying power of the huge rhinoceros, Willem placed the muzzle of his roer near one of its eyes, and fired.
Grasping his roer by the barrel, he prepared to defend himself, intending to use the weapon as a club.
Willem, as he spoke, raised the heavy death-dealing roer to his shoulder.
Laying his roer athwart the loading-rod, and holding the long barrel steady against it, he took deliberate aim through the ivory sights.
Perhaps they had never heard the report of a gun before that of his own long roer pealed in their huge ears.
The chimney was but a score of feet in height; the long roer was pointed upward, reaching nearly half that distance.
Someone with a racking cough warned the guard the Roer was rising rapidly: Nazi's are flooding us out.
Radio says that sluice gates on the Roer were opened during the night .
It was a long way to the Roer River, black-walking.
Dennison had requested a transfer--any unit: after his injury at the Roer River, Landel was often violent, word and action.
Dennison examined the lanky civic tower of the town of Bretten, across the Roer River: he noticed the Teutonic coat-of-arms on its tiled side, the ivy climbing its brick walls.
In all we were about a hundred men, but we only mustered five guns between us, my elephantroer and four that had belonged to Mr. Carson.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "roer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
