Cautiously I sank back, wormed myself round and looked over the edge of the scherm in the direction from which the sound came.
Within a few minutes my scherm was complete, and I extended prone within it.
Ostrich shooting in the desert from a scherm was far more than my fancy had painted it.
We outspanned for the night without water, and with the accompaniment of scherm and camp fires.
Apart from other terrors, a night in those wilds is likely to be disturbed from the attentions of beasts of prey, and a man who has not the means of making a scherm or a fire will have to spend a restless night in a tree.
There we found our relays of mules, and on a dusty patch near the mule-scherm we outspanned for the night.
We encamped after dark in a little wayside hollow, where we built a large fire and a massive scherm or enclosure of thorns for the animals.
When she came from the scherm with the cup she coloured angrily and her eye flashed.
The Hottentot servants had inhabited a scherm about fifty yards to the rear of the camp.
The old woman slept most of the day, but at night the cheerful firelight from the scherm lit up the kopjes long after the last of the Boers lay snoring.
She took a rusk from the cupboard and then went to the scherm for a cup of coffee which Katryn, the Hottentot servant-girl, had saved for her.
He took these--not to the scherm belonging to the camp at which he was a guest, but to the deserted scherm formerly occupied by Gert Gemsbok.
He moved his scherm to another spot; that did not improve matters, so he moved it back again.
From the scherm arose the notes of the air he knew so well.
The scherm was in full view of the Besters' camp, and the sight of the cheerful camp-fire with the old couple sitting next to it was a nightly affront.
The Hottentots at the scherm had evidently thrown another armful of candle-bush upon the embers, for a bright flame shot up and momentarily increased in volume.
He was now popularising it among the dwellers of the Desert, for he played it at every scherm he visited.
The scattered bushes of the scherm fence he rearranged, not against the wind but on the side facing the shop.
As Gert went to his scherm Nathan turned and winked to Max again.
Mrs Bester, for the sake of keeping the neighbourhood quiet, had told the servants to move their scherm farther away.
All but the ramkee player were lying down resting behind the scherm fence.
During the afternoon Jan Kokerboom and his assistants had cut down a large number of thorn bushes, and made a strong scherm or fence, within which the oxen, after grazing, were enclosed for the night.
The next thing to this fifth scherm was some thick bush; the order was given to get into that, and in a moment we were out of sight there.
We passed scherm after scherm, and still more Matabele, more fires, and on we rode.
I also observed that those monkeys who were actually engaged in the construction of the scherm laid the bunches of thorns in place with elaborate care and, as it appeared to me, with quite amazing skill and cunning.
At length as the night fell the king's men were driven back from their last scherm in the western half of the valley, across the open space back upon the koppie where stood the Tree of Doom.
The muzzles of all these guns were within our scherm when they were discharged, so that our assailants must have crawled right up to the back of our camp and fired through the interstices between the cornstalks.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scherm" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
