278 examples of boer in sentences

No one of the five would have believed he could feel so towards a human being about a morsel of food, but those who think they would be above it, have not wintered in the Arctic regions or fought in the Boer War.

The telegram of the Kaiser to Kruger in 1895 no doubt left an unpleasant impression in England, and German feeling, of course, at the time of the Boer War, ran strongly against England, but so did feeling in France and America, and, indeed, throughout the civilized world.

This was at the beginning of the Boer war.

I suppose also that the Fabians among ourselves would support the foreign domination, just as their leaders supported the overthrow of the Boer republics, on the ground that larger states bring the Fabianthe very Fabianrevolution nearer.

This form of unimaginative obtuseness undoubtedly increased during the extension of our grip upon subject races between the overthrow of Gladstone's first Home Rule Bill and the end of the Boer War.

In the Boer War our real objects were to paint the country red on the maps and to exploit the gold-mines.

A section of the country was opposed to the Crimean War; a far larger section was opposed to the Boer War.

The present commander-in-chief is Lord Kitchener, the hero of Khartoum and of the recent Boer war.

And it was the very same, the North Cork, that went of their own free will to the Boer war, volunteered, asked to go that is.

But they wrote back that there were so many young men crippled in the Boer war there was nothing to be spared for the old.

It was the Boer war killed her, she being aged, and seeing all her men going out, and able to do nothing.

It is since the Boer War there is coin sent back from Africa every week that is dug from the goldpits out there.

I am reminded again of the days during the Boer war, when one realised that it had never occurred to our happy-go-lucky Army that it was possible to make a military use of barbed wire or construct a trench to defy shrapnel.

Our consciousness of defects, of fields of effort untilled, of vast possibilities neglected and slipping away from us for ever, has never really slumbered again since the chastening experiences of the Boer War.

The one grave shock of the Boer War has long been explained and sentimentalised away.

Meanwhile General Botha, Boer and Briton too, is on the war-path, and we can, without an undue stretch of imagination, picture him composing a telegram to the Kaiser in these terms: "Just off to repel another raid.

We have now six times as many men in the field as formed the original Expeditionary Force, and in the few days fighting round Neuve Chapelle almost as much ammunition was expended by our guns as in the whole of the two and three-quarter years of the Boer War.

In two months' fighting in Gallipoli our casualties have largely exceeded those sustained by us during the whole of the Boer War.

The German Kamerun has cried "Kamerad!" General Smuts, like Botha, "Boer and Briton too," has gone off to take command in East Africa, and in the Caucasus Erzerum has fallen to the Russians.

A fried sole was the luxury which officers who served in the Boer War declared that they enjoyed most of all after their campaigning.

The grim necessity of providing, after the events of the Boer War, for effective thought in the government of the British army produced the War Office Council.

[Footnote 3: Boer 'war' of 1899-1902.]

During the (Boer) war one watched the contingents from every point of view, and, most likely, drew wrong inferences.

Thanks to the (Boer) war, many of them had reached out to the ends of our earth, and spoke of the sister nations as it did one good to hear.

A Major of the Mounted Police, who had done a year at the (Boer) war, told us how the ostrich-farm fencing and the little meercats sitting up and racing about South Africa had made him homesick for the sight of the gophers by the wayside, and the endless panels of wire fencing along which we rushed.

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