The zeriba grew stronger and thicker, the glacis wider, the field kitchens more elaborate, the pools of the Atbara more dirty.
It was then that the dusty, tired-out infantry provided sentries and pickets, who in a ceaseless succession paced the zeriba and guarded its occupants.
Suddenly the whole black line which seemed to be zeriba began to move.
Behind this zeribalow palisades and entrenchments bent back to the scrub by the river.
As soon as the troops were re-formed, the zeriba was evacuated and the army drew up in line along the neighbouring ridge.
The leading masses of the centre deployed facing the zeriba and marched forthwith to the direct assault.
The Abyssinians, undaunted by the rifle fire of the Soudanese, succeeded in setting the zeriba alight.
As the sun rose, the 21st Lancers trotted out of the zeriba and threw out a spray of officers' patrols.
The news caused the gravest anxiety, which was not diminished when it was found that the bush around the zeriba was being strongly occupied by Dervish spearmen.
A battery had unlimbered in the plain between the zeriba and the ridge, and was beginning to shell the summit of the hill.
The interior of the zeribawas crowded with women and children, who were ruthlessly butchered by the exultant Abyssinians.
A small but strong zeriba was built near this precious pool, and the reserve food and a few sick men were left with a small garrison under an Egyptian officer.
The zeriba of the camp at Royan had been already made and much of the ground cleared by the energy of the Soudanese division, which had been the first to arrive.
At a very early hour Mazamboni appeared outside of thezeriba with an imposing retinue of followers.
In the morning we buried our own people, and around our zeriba there were nine natives dead, while within there were six.
Lieutenant Stairs promptly stepped out of the zeriba and was introduced by Fetteh.
In half an hour the column was safe on the hill, the zeriba was near completion, there was water for the thirsty, and we had a few minutes to draw breath and to observe from our commanding elevation what were our surroundings.
As usual, a zeriba must first be constructed and the force put in laager.
In the meantime a company was extended along the ridge some 50 yards beyond the zeriba to check the enemy's fire; but they had nothing at which to aim except the puffs of smoke rising above the scrub.
Several men were hit, and were carried back to thezeriba by our men, while the square moved forward at quick march.
The Naval Brigade had no better luck with the Gardner gun, placed outside the zeriba near the left angle of the front.
The rest of the Column were hurriedly building a zeriba in the valley.
What we did know was that if the square had been defeated, the zeribawould very soon be attacked in overwhelming force.
I cannot mention the Hussars without paying a tribute to the admirable scouting work they did under Lieutenant-Colonel Barrow during the whole march, up to the time the last zeriba was formed, when the gallant little horses were dead beat.
But as the moments passed the strain of suspense slackened; for, as the fire of the enemy directed upon the zeriba diminished and soon ceased altogether, the presumption was that the square had been victorious and had got through to the river.
The square was formed up in rear of the zeriba at 2.
So we 'ad to cover 'em back into the zeriba of the seraphim--which is our glorious selves.
Sergeant William Connor, of the Berkshire Regiment, in the sergeants' mess at Suakim, two nights before the attack on McNeill's zeriba at Tofrik.
Next morning the party despatched to the zeriba returned, and the whole column, including camels and baggage, was now concentrated at the wells.
On the same day the Black Watch marched out and occupied a zeriba constructed by Baker some weeks before, and distant about eight miles on the road from Souakim to Sinkat.
It has been asked, Why were the fatigue men employed in cutting materials for the zeriba allowed to go into the bush unarmed?
The British infantry were led forward a few paces, and formed up in double rank in the rear of their zeriba defences, the Egyptian battalions doing the same behind their trenches.
At this moment the rear rank of the Berkshire half battalion engaged in defending the western face of the south zeribafaced about and occupied the gap through which the Soudanese were now pouring.
A strong zeriba has been constructed, and I consider position secure against any number of enemy.
During the advance, the garrison in the zeriba had been engaging the enemy at long range.
The reply also stated that, as the halt had been made at only six miles distance, no intermediate zeriba would be required at the five-mile point previously ordered.
The orders were for the whole force to proceed to a point eight miles distant in the direction of Tamaai, there to form a zeriba (No.
Kitchener, realizing the insufficient number of his troops for an attack, and running short of water, abandoned the zeriba and fell back upon the river.
At the same time, about 1,000 men, with a gun, threatened the zeribaon the west bank, held by the Egyptian troops.
Another trick of the assailants was to bring hides, and throwing them on the top of the thorny bushes forming the fence, they would spring over into the zeriba and rush at the defenders and engage in a hand-to-hand fight.
A native had brought information that the enemy intended to attack while the zeriba was being formed, and this actually occurred.
On the 9th of March the whole force was back at Suakin, and on the evening of the 11th an advance to Tamai began, and the force bivouacked and formed a zeriba in the evening.
A small party of dervishes still held a zeriba when King John was struck by a stray bullet.
The wells being occupied and a zeriba formed, the column started on the evening of the 18th.
Kitchener met with no opposition; and on the 1st of September the army bivouacked in zeriba at Egeiga, on the west bank of the Nile, within 4 m.
By the time I reached the British portion of the zeriba the men were all in their places, with reserve companies in position a little to the rear.
As the Sirdar appeared to think that all danger from Dervish attack was now past and over, the entire army received orders to leave the zeriba and march in échelon straight on Omdurman.
Colonel Collinson's brigade was posted as a reserve inside the zeriba some distance to the rear of Macdonald's division.
Next in order came the two British Brigades with two Maxim batteries, and the remaining two-thirds of the zeribawas held by the various native battalions.
On the extreme left of our line lay a gap between the end of the zeriba and the river, left purposely, I presume, in order to admit the cavalry.
The division of the enemy nearest to the zeriba was advancing over the ridge between Surgham and the river, and with a good field glass I could see the fearful havoc played by the fire of our guns.
Few of the twenty-three thousand men who passed that night within the zeriba are likely to forget it.
A zeriba had, of course, been formed, and just behind it thousands of troops lay all night under arms, ready to repulse any Dervish attempt to surprise the camp by a sudden rush.
While the Lancers had met and engaged the enemy beyond Gebel Surgham, the whole of the infantry, artillery, and baggage-train had left the zeriba and advanced in échelon upon Omdurman.
The signallers from Gebel Surgham had come in by this time, and the cavalry, after a temporary halt beyond Geren Nebi, entered the zeriba by the gap beyond the batteries, and there waited ready for future emergencies.
On the 16th June, after a long march of four and three-quarter hours, we arrived at the zeriba of Rusesse.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "zeriba" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
