And surely my sjambok must have helped them against the poison flowers, for they came right through, having smelt the water maybe; and brought us here to its very side, where I awoke to find them drinking.
And furiously lashing his startled horse he spurred madly away, striking savagely with his sjambok at the cowering quartette as he passed.
In less than a second he had put his horse straight at the original offender, and with a tough seacow-hide sjambok which dangled from his wrist was cutting into that astonished and ill-advised ruffian with the fury of a madman.
You should have seen Revell sabreing them all right and left with a sjambok when they cheeked him at that kraal," guffawed Trask.
Revell, in return, making his sjambok whistle through the air as he flourished it round his head.
The sjambok dear to the Boer soul is that made out of rhinoceros hide.
The Boer sjambok is a different article altogether; it has not nine tails, but it gets there just the same.
Ou Baas holds the sjambok in his hand when he talks to me," he said quite simply.
Sibijaan drove the mules and swung his sjambok without mercy.
Now the sjambok cuts like a knife, and the savage gave a tremendous jump.
He got careless with his sjambok and flicked a tall Swazi warrior on a naked but important part of his anatomy.
This last is accomplished by boiling some of the affected cow's milk and whipping the animal severely with a sjambok while the milk boils.
They had lived in a land where the sjambok was the symbol of progress.
The skin had been scratched by Krool's insolence and the knowledge of his treachery, and the Tartar showed--the sjambok his scimitar.
If he went to the Baas with his suspicions, the chance was that he would be flayed with a sjambok and turned into the streets; if he warned Jasmine, the same thing might happen, or worse.
You remember you asked me to come, Jasmine, when you took the sjambok from me.
Still keeping his eyes fixed on Krool's eyes, his hand reached out and slowly took the sjambok from the table.
A sjambok swung, and with a snort, which was half a groan, the trained horses sprang forward.
Her glance suddenly caught a sjambok lying along two nails on the wall.
But his eyes drew hers to his own presently, and even while he spoke to her now, the illusion of the sjambok remained, and she imagined his voice to be intermingling with the dull thud of the whip on her shoulders.
There was an instant's pause after Krool's words, and then Wolff the silent, gone wild, caught the sjambok from the hands of Barry Whalen.
With a low cry Byng ran forward, the sjambok swung through the air, and the terrible whip descended on the crouching half-caste.
In the case of Morgendaal the execution actually took place, and seems to have been attended by brutal circumstances, the man having been thrashed with a sjambok before being put to death.
One tattered little boy of ten cracked his sjambok whip behind the bullocks.
They can fight it out now," and I took the sjambokfrom Jim's hand and cut it from the white man's wrist.
That was too much for Jim; he made a spring in and grasping the raised sjambok with his left hand held Seedling powerless, while in his right the boy raised his stick on guard.
The white man, livid with fury, struggled and kicked, but the wrist loop of his sjambok held him prisoner and he could do nothing.
As Jock fastened on to the baboon, dragging the chain taut while the screaming brute struggled on its back, Seedling stood for a second irresolute, and then with a stride forward raised his sjambok to strike the dog.
Vaulting over into the driver's seat, he seized the sjambok and jumped into the river.
The sjambok is the Baas' cure for the traitor, and sometimes it kills to cure.
You don't mean that Rudyard--" She pushed the sjambokaway from her.
Stafford had far greater difficulty in staying his hand than had Barry Whalen, for thesjambok seemed the only reply to the dark suggestion.
Krool--Krool is a traitor, and the sjambok for him.
Laying the sjambok on the table among the books in delicate bindings and the bowls of flowers, she stood and looked at it with confused senses for a long time.
There was the sjambok I had forgotten still lying on the window sill.
You are 'Mwanga's dog, and he will skin you with a sjambok soon.
He frightened himself, too, so that when he saw the long achter-oss sjambok quivering on the ground where the driver had thrown it, his jaw got rigid, and moved up and down without any words coming from his mouth.
Then, with a sort of sob, he snatched up the axe, and I'm blowed if he didn't cut that sjambok into a thousand bits.
He emerged lighting a cigar, and sjambok in hand, returned to the orderly room.
When he had finished zu Pfeiffer arose languidly, lighted a fresh cigar, adjusted his helmet with care, took a gold-mounted sjambok from his servant, and strode across the square.
I will remember you," growled Piet, as he moved off, "and maybe the sjambok you promised me will fall on your own shoulders.
Webster drew a sjambok from the side of the waggon, a formidable weapon made from rhinoceros' hide, and made it whistle through the air.
I should be far more hard-hearted and cruel than you'd be, for I would have him tied up to the wheel of a wagon and set a Kaffir to flog him with a sjambok on his bare back.
He stood nervously switching a sjambok in his right hand, while he stormed in Dutch at three of his unfortunate people, or rather slaves.
They had all been implicated in the recent loss of cattle suffered by their savage master, who had already flogged the Bushman with the sjambok and was furiously interrogating the Hottentot.
In a moment the guerilla's arm was raised, and the cruel sjambok of rhinoceros-hide fell across the Englishman's face, leaving a great blue weal.
The inherent vanity of the aboriginal then finds scope, and the nation which cringed and quailed under the sjambok of the Boer will be the first to rebel against the equity of the Briton.
Just then our host appeared puffing with his exertions and declaring that he had stirred up the swine with a vengeance, in proof of which he pointed to the sjambok that was reddened with blood.
Lifting the sjambok he cut Ishmael across the mouth so sharply that the blood came from his lips, then suddenly remembering that this deed would probably mean his death, stood still awaiting the issue.
Then came shrieks, and the dull sound of the sjambok cutting soft human flesh.
I do not know his name, but I heard one of the Boers say, 'That slim duyvel with the sjambok is the new Military Commandant.
He was coming from the direction of the Hospital--a tall thin man in Service khâki, with a riding-sjambok under his arm.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sjambok" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: belt; cat; cowhide; crop; flagellum; horsewhip; lash; rawhide; scourge; strap; thong; whiplash
