At long intervals we pass a n'zala, a square empty space surrounded by a zariba of thorn and prickly pear.
If there are thieves abroad the zariba will not keep them out, and if there are no thieves a tired traveller may forget his fatigue.
He himself stayed behind in the zariba with the rest of the troops.
In the centre of our zariba was a mound, on the top of which I placed an old bench found in one of Madibbo's huts, and which an Egyptian had turned into a chair.
That evening I presented our guide with a piece of red cloth, a pair of silver bangles, and a few dollars, which I borrowed from the surviving merchants, and he quitted the zariba full of gratitude.
As Abu Anga had promised, it was now arranged that I should definitely remain under his charge; a tattered old tent was pitched for me, and around it, close to the tent ropes, a thorn zariba was made.
Arrived here, he at once proceeded to construct a zaribaand entrench himself.
While at my zariba at Deain, Sheikh Afifi Wad Ahmed of the Habbania, accompanied by Sheikhs Khamis Wad Nenya and Khudr Wad Girba, arrived with twenty horsemen, and gave me assurances of their loyalty to Government.
In a few moments we heard some rifle shots, and fearing that Madibbo's main body had arrived, I called the mounted Arabs into the zariba and prepared for defence.
I did not wish him to enter the zariba and see all our wounded; I therefore went out, and found that he was one of Madibbo's slaves, bearing a letter for me from his master.
The latter had made a zariba at Murrai, about half a day's march from Shakka, and thither most of the merchants, with their wives and families, had fled for protection.
The zariba was stormed; some attempted to drag away the thorn bushes, others tried to set fire to it, whilst the Dervishes opened a terrific fire on the masses.
Zeki Tummal took counsel with his emirs whether it would be better to await the enemy's arrival in the zariba or whether it would be advisable to advance and fight in the open.
Close to the zaribaare three sets of gallows, besides two others in different parts of the town.
Abdullah effected a junction with Yussef Pasha, and the combined force reached Gedir, where they entrenched themselves in a zariba near the base of the mountain.
The air in the zariba was poisoned by the number of people suffering from small-pox; but curiously enough, the disease never seemed to touch the white people.
The immense zariba was now further fortified and strengthened.
He also wrote to Sherif Mahmud at Delen, and to Khartum; a few days later orders came from Mahmud that we were to be imprisoned in the zariba of the beit el mal.
At Rahad a special zariba was built for the Nuba captives, who were driven like cattle into a pen to be sold.
The next instant flames shot twenty feet or more into the air--a fire so intense that the heat could be distinctly felt by the defenders of the trench, while the zariba quivered in the current of air set up by the sudden rise of temperature.
Yet before the evacuation of the zariba was accomplished night had fallen.
Mr. Osborne, will you see that the zariba is repaired?
During the attack on the zariba he had received a mortal wound; yet, with a remarkable reticence, he had crawled away to die in solitude.
It was pretty hot when we were pulling away the zariba fence; the ground was flying up as if it was being harrowed all round me, with the fire of the riflemen, and I lost a terrible bunch of men at that {204} spot.
I made all my men lie down, so that nothing could be seen of us except our zariba fence.
By his solution of the Zariba Dam problem, he has virtually put half a million, dollars into my pocket.
You're not going to leave the Zariba Dam in the air.
This means, does it not, that you believe you can solve the problem of the Zariba Dam?
As you probably know, Grif screwed the company up to offer me a stiff salary--on the strength of that Zariba work, I suppose.
Your father unloaded theZariba project onto the Coville Construction Company, and they've offered a cool fifty thousand dollars to the man that figures out a feasible way to construct the dam.
Griffith tells me that he was well along toward a solution of the Zariba Dam.
I offer fifty thousand dollars as reward to the man who solves the problem of the Zariba Dam.
But if they've ever done anything just like this Zariba Dam, they've kept it out of print.
Old Griffith wrote me about the way you had put through the Zariba Dam.
But I've been given work and a chance at one of the biggest things in hydraulics--the Zariba Dam, out in Arizona.
I want your promise you'll do nothing or say nothing to him till after you've made good on the Zariba Dam," went on Griffith.
No, not until I begin to see my way out on the Zariba Dam.
It was advancing leisurely to the support of the main force, as though the leader expected the zariba to be carried easily at the first shock of the huge mass.
Thankful to the bottom of his heart, yet pitying the wretches who lay all around him, Tom returned with a few men to the zariba to do what could be done for the wounded.
The light was growing, and the mist hanging over the zariba was gradually rolled by the breeze back on to the swamp.
The zariba was still partially curtained by mist; but the Arabs could not have expected to surprise the camp, for the shots fired by the scouts as they were driven in must have shown that Tom's troops were on the alert.
He got his men to throw up a semicircular entrenchment inside the zariba and resting on the swamp, as a protection for his reserve.
Tom merely smiled, and pressed on the work, allowing his men short spells of rest, until about eleven o'clock, by which time the zariba was complete.
At one point on each face of the zariba he so arranged the screen of mimosa and cactus that it formed a rough gateway opening outwards, thus allowing, if opportunity should arise, of a rapid sally by the defenders.
A sheet of flame burst from the two sides of the zariba on which the attack was directed.
Illustration: The Zariba and its defences at the moment of the 2nd.
On each of the three exposed sides of the zariba he placed a front rank of musketeers and a rear rank of pikemen, the double line accounting for two thousand seven hundred men.
His tent was pitched in the centre of a thorn zariba a hundred and twenty yards square, and the men were busily engaged in running up grass huts and entrenching the camp.
They formed a zariba on a stretch of dry ground about half a mile from the river, intending to continue the march next day towards their stronghold beyond the hills.
At each of the corners of the zariba Tom posted fifty additional pikemen, forming thus a double line.
On every face of the zariba the ground was strewn with prone bodies, and it was a harrowing thought that, in the heat of the fight, nothing could be done for the wounded men, whose groans mingled with the yells of the combatants.
Collinson's division and the camel corps were ordered to advance from the neighbourhood of the zariba and support Macdonald on that side.
Fortunately they had constructed a zariba (a camp surrounded by thorn-bushes) on the north bank of the Atbara at a point twenty miles above its confluence with the Nile.
Again, however, the advance of other Arabs from Omdurman caused a delay until a fortified camp or zaribacould be formed.
The Anglo-Egyptian force made a zaribaaround the village of el-Gennuaia on the river bank; and there, in full expectation of a night attack, they sought what slumber was to be had.
Possibly the seeming weakness of the zariba tempted him to a concentric attack from the Kerreri Hills and the ridge which stretches on both sides of the steep slopes of the hill, Gebel Surgham.
It was judged to be too risky at once to charge a superior force that clung to so strong a shelter; and for an hour and a half the British and Egyptian guns plied the zariba in the hope of bringing the fanatics out to fight.
Leslie and my father are the ones who backed him on the Zariba Dam.
Course he couldn't know we'd got all the reports on that Zariba Dam and who backed the engineer, nor that we'd know all about Blake.
I looked it up in the magazine that told about his helping to back the Zariba Dam project.
But--We get all the reports--There is an Ashton connected with that wonderful Zariba Dam, just being finished in Arizona.
Yes, Mr. Blake, the engineer--the great Thomas Blake of the Zariba Dam.
He arranged the night camp with the Eastern horses inside the zariba of wagons, and the Western horses, mostly broncos, on the outside--an arrangement that turned out well in view of a stampede that took place.
The trees surrounding the open space could be turned into an effective zariba by planting poles between them, and interlacing the poles with strands of prickly thorn.
Before the glimmering dawn had penetrated the nullah, when the four-footed creatures had slunk to their dens and the birds were beginning to stir, the three clambered down on the outside of the zariba and started on their long tramp.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "zariba" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
