Down the hill he passed, crouching, darting, but the spruits behind him were turned into swirling streams, and as he hesitated for an instant upon the brink the relentless sleet of bullets came from behind.
Between these two points there are several spruits falling into it from the north, and rising on the south slope of the watershed.
I spent some weeks in going over the country, but as I proceeded westerly I found great difficulty in crossing the many spruits and small watercourses, causing much delay.
Crossing several other smallspruits we come to Klip spruit, Lion, Wolf, Maquassie, and Bamber spruits.
The Infantry and baggage also made a long march on the 17th, but as the road was obstructed by several bad spruits or dongas, they were still fourteen miles from Lindley when night closed in.
Spruits ran in all directions, and only required an ordinary dam, like the bunds the peasants build in India, to jewel each valley with a gleaming vivifying lake.
Crossing the swollen spruits was fearful," writes an officer.
They performed splendidly, climbing mountain sides and fording spruits with an agility not to be expected from their ponderous nature.
The exceeding badness of the tracks--for to call them roads is impossible--the quantity of water in the spruits and rivulets, and the enormous amount of baggage caused continual halts in the centre and rear of the column.
Here in the kloof were two deep spruits or streams, which, however, were avoided by hugging the sides of Mount Mhundla, and it was noticed that waggons could be dragged without any considerable difficulty along this path.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spruits" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
