We could see the enemy looking over their zareba and laughing in our faces, all the while keeping up a heavy fire upon us.
Leaving a Zareba under Captain Macneil with 300 men, Colonel Swayne moved against the Mullah’s camp at Yahel.
Meanwhile, General Macdonald’s brigade advanced, and only about a minute elapsed from the time the combined force crowned the rise of the hill till the Camerons and Soudanese had torn down the zareba and made way for the main body of the army.
The Zareba meantime was fiercely attacked, but gallantly defended, and the enemy driven off.
They were to clear the front with a hot rifle fire, and while some were doing this others were to tear opens in the zareba or surmount it by scaling ladders.
General Gatacre’s words were to the point, “there was to be no question about this, they were to go right through the zareba and drive the dervishes into the river.
The various detachments marched out of the zareba and lay down as they took up their positions.
Slowly the construction of the zareba was completed--a low, stone wall in front, and earthen parapets and abattis of mimosa bushes on the other three sides.
A body of three hundred men from the Guards, Heavies, and Mounted Infantry started on a return journey to the zareba to bring up the baggage, and the remainder of the force bivouacked near the wells.
Probably the column that had gone out to fetch in the baggage had not yet returned, and the small force left at the zareba on the river bank would certainly not undertake any offensive operation until it came back.
They will have to make a zareba by the river, attend to the wounded, and perhaps send back a force to bring in the camels and baggage, who were no doubt left behind at the spot where they were firing this morning.
Inside the zareba the greatest vigilance was observed.
Rupert Clinton had remained in the zareba when the square had marched forward.
Shots were indeed fired occasionally from the bushes and eminences, but the discharges were far apart, and seemed to be intended rather to show the defenders of the zareba that they were surrounded than for any other purpose.
The troops were set to work to erect a zarebawith the saddles, biscuit-boxes, and other stores, while parties of skirmishers endeavoured to keep down the fire of the enemy.
Volunteers were called for, and three hundred men from the various corps started to march back to the zareba to bring in the baggage before daylight.
He had been greatly exhausted by the night march and had had a slight sunstroke before the square moved out; the doctors had therefore ordered him not to accompany it, but to stay at the zareba and assist the general and other wounded.
Soon after one o'clock in the morning the stillness round the zareba was suddenly broken.
The general was about to give the word to retire to the zareba where there was a little water still left, when the Hussars fortunately hit upon the wells.
The assailants were on the watch, and from four or five different points round the zareba shots were fired.
A rhinoceros on trek for water and nearly mad with thirst had winded the waterskins in a Somali grazing camp and charged through the zareba to get at them.
On her we passed out of the zareba surrounding the camp, in which most of the men lay asleep on their dhurries stretched on the ground; for the native requires no softer bed and can repose contentedly on paving stones.
Thorny branches and a shrub which causes an intense irritation when touched were thrown in among them; and the zareba thus constructed formed a formidable obstacle.
In the jungle, not far from the club, I marked out the spot for our bivouac around which I ordered a zareba to be constructed.
If I should not return and the little lady should die, you will leave her in the tree, but around the tree you will build a high zareba and on the bark you will carve a great sign like this.
The horses began to push upon the zareba and were it not for the long and hard-as-steel thorns of the acacia branches, they would have demolished it.
When the downpour quenches the fire, the zareba will defend us," Stas said to pacify Nell.
No, not here, for there lie the gnawed remains of the horses; we will select some other tree, or will go to the ravine and there will build a zarebasuch as the world has not seen.
The branches of the tree mantled the tent and the whole zareba so that not a drop of rain fell upon the ground, but above could be heard the rustle of leaves.
This precaution was not at all superfluous, as a powerful whirlwind could scatter the thorny boughs with which the zareba was constructed and facilitate an attack by beasts of prey.
In front of the zareba grew single clumps of trees and further a thick forest entangled with climbing plants, beyond which loftily shot out crowns of strange palm trees resembling gigantic fans or outspread peacock tails.
But in the meantime it grew dark; so Stas conducted the little girl to the zareba where supper already awaited them.
Beyond the zarebacould be heard the snorting of horses and the crunching of grass in their teeth.
We seized a hill as soon as we arrived in the center of a mass of villages, and built a zareba as fast as billhooks could cut the brushwood.
As nearly as the boys could guess, there were something like three hundred warriors gathered about the gate of the zareba as they came up.
The zareba was made out o' ivory," was his quiet reply.
The startled boys saw the latter bend, there came another terrific roar, then the stout thorn zareba was burst apart and into the enclosure rolled the form of an immense lion!
They then left the ivory zareba while Mbopo made a cast around the place for the lion's trail.
Behind the warriors and inside the zareba was a still larger assemblage of women and children.
A few moments later a moving light appeared at the zareba gate, followed by others.
He couldn't see the zareba but he could smell all right.
And we can carry off this whole blamed zareba that way, with the ankh too!
Strands of thorn-bush were interwoven among the tusks, which were planted closely in the ground, but the zareba was so low that the lion would have had no difficulty in leaping over it.
Running to his side, Burt saw the beaten spot in the tall grass where the lion must have alighted from his last leap over the ivory zareba after having been wounded.
The zareba hides you from the village, as long as you keep away from the entrance.
Two or three hundred horsemen, with their emirs, dashed at the zareba at full gallop.
The whole force was at once employed in pulling down huts, clearing the ground of the high grass, and forming a zarebaround the town.
Half a mile from the zareba the infantry halted, and the artillery and Maxims opened fire.
The zareba rose before me, even as I had left it, but the gate was open.
We therefore blocked the entrance to our zareba by filling it up with several thorny bushes, and left our camp with the stores entirely surrounded by this protecting hedge.
So the carriers cut a circle and built a zareba and the messenger was swallowed by the green wall bearing presents of two rifles.
They rode back to camp to find the zareba done, and von Hofe standing before the charred gate-posts, hands on hips.
Jack learned how the thorn zareba was built, and Charlie visited the Kikuyu village with his camera.
Charlie as the explorer told him to return to the zareba with von Hofe and make every preparation to receive their visitor.
The party left the zareba and moved over to the stockade.
The Masai built a zareba around, and for the rest of the afternoon they stayed quietly recuperating from the terrible exertions of that battle.
The wagon and zareba were in plain sight, but they seemed to be puzzled by the absence of men or cattle.
Fortunately, the zareba and oxen were at the other end of the camp, and the courageous Gholab ran down to the horses and loosed them as the rhinoceros charged.
That night Schoverling issued orders that with each halt the Masai should construct a thorn zareba for the oxen, while big fires should be kept blazing all night.
The novelist blocks his reader's path with a zareba of stars.
It suffices to say that the Mullah and his followers were driven off with heavy loss, and that so great was their consternation, that they at once left the neighbourhood of the zareba and fled towards the interior.
Otherwise you would have the zareba filled with water, and the animals would quickly die.
Moreover, it occurs to me that a strong zareba might be made in the heart of the trees, for there is wood to be had, and do we not carry ample wire with hooks upon it to surround the whole place?
Will you, Tom, stay here, and defend the zarebawith one half, while I take the other?
Nodding coolly to his companion, Jim rose to his feet, and silently crossed the zareba to the spot where the followers lay sleeping.
Then they pull up in a matter of two yards, and express their astonishment at finding a hasty zareba formed, and preparations already made for an attack.
Lying behind the thick thorn-bushes, with rifles in readiness, all in the upperzareba kept their eyes upon that tall, khaki-clad figure standing beside the Maxim.
Stay here, then, for to reach the zareba the tribesmen must pass through this gorge, there being no other way round.
Then, if you place the zareba over there, a trench from the wells will carry the water to them, so that their wants can be supplied.
All realized that they had perhaps a thousand fanatical foes to deal with, and that many, many miles of rolling country intervened between themselves and the zareba away in the desert.
There is no news of these infidel dogs," he cried, "but they are as surely in our hands as are those others who have formed their zareba in the desert.
I was so done up when we got back to the zareba last night that I felt I could not listen.
A zareba was formed, and the men lay down to rest, which intermittent firing made almost impossible.
Sir Herbert Stewart marched on he found his way to the Nile barred by them, so a zareba was formed at Abu Kru, and here he was mortally wounded.
Had their antagonists continued to keep that range the defenders must either have made a hopeless sally or tried to shelter themselves behind their zareba as best they might on the chance that the sound might bring up help.
Not much--you don't get my polo-pony to make a zareba with.
The other half of that regiment formed square, and with a steady fire kept the Arabs at bay, and eventually gained the north-east zareba without losing a man.
The zareba was soon reached and torn aside, and in a few minutes our men were in the enclosure.
The camp was protected by a zareba and trench, with spaces at intervals, and all along the river were the flotilla of gunboats.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "zareba" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
