Lexicographical Neighbors of Kieries
Literary usage of Kieries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lake Ngami, Or, Explorations and Discoveries During Four Years' Wanderings by Charles John Andersson, John Charles Frémont (1857)
"The story our guide told us previously to leaving Barmen, about a tree, the fruit
of which was attainable only by means of " knob-kieries thrown up at it," ..."
2. Fifty Years of the History of the Republic in South Africa (1795-1845) by Johan Carel Voigt (1899)
"The laager camp was impregnable to the attacking columns, armed only with assegais,
kieries, and light battle-axes. The Zulu shield of ox-hide formed no ..."
3. The Okavango River: A Narrative of Travel, Exploration and Adventure by Charles John Andersson (1861)
"I saw also knob- kieries, made from rhinoceroses' horn, and honey and beeswax in
great abundance. "It was evident, however, that we had not the confidence ..."
4. With Rhodes in Mashonaland by David Christiaan de Waal (1896)
"... some with axes and assegais, some with knob-kieries and others with guns —and
that every eye was fixed on us with unusual gravity, my suspicions were ..."
5. A Narrative of the Irruption of the Kafir Hordes Into the Eastern Province by Robert Godlonton (1836)
"... but they forcibly thrust her away, beating her with their kieries (or knob-sticks)
while they perpetrated the wanton and savage butchery. ..."
6. Zulu-land: Or, Life Among the Zulu-Kafirs of Natal and Zulu-land, South by Lewis Grout (1864)
"They m"1" " 'th their shields and kieries, uttering at tne ».. the most discordant
yells and cries. ..."
7. Lake Ngami: Or, Explorations and Discoveries During Four Years' Wanderings by Charles John Andersson (1857)
"... only by means of " knob-kieries thrown up at it," was now easily comprehended.
But we experienced greater difficulty in realizing his other tales, ..."
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