Lexicographical Neighbors of Spruits
Literary usage of Spruits
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Excursions in Western Africa: And Narrative of a Campaign in Kaffir-land, on by James Edward Alexander (1840)
"... A Scientific Guide-—Missionaries have sometimes short Memories—A Breakfast—Encamp
between the spruits of the Buffalo—Movements of the Second, Third, ..."
2. Twenty-Five Years in a Waggon [Sic] by Andrew A. Anderson (1888)
"... Klite, Kalk, Eland, Enscl, all spruits, to the Moi river, upon which Potchefstroom
is built. ... Crossing several other small spruits we come to Klip ..."
3. Twenty-five Years in a Waggon: Sport and Travel in South Africa by Andrew A. Anderson (1888)
"... within the Transvaal boundary, as under—Klip, Gans, Sand, Bushman, Kapok,
Rand, Waterfal, Klite, Kalk, Eland, Ensel, all spruits, to the Moi river, ..."
4. The Gold Regions of South Eastern Africa by Thomas Baines (1877)
"... River 2 0 Next spruit 2 50 Cross do 2 35 Cross Kameel River, good drift ...
... ... ... ... 2 0 Through Kameel Poort 2 15 spruits of Elands Biver, ..."
5. Men, Mines and Animals in South Africa by Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill (1897)
"Most of the spruits were altogether dry. One of my horses succumbed ... To an ox
waggon stones and stumps and steep spruits offer little danger; ..."
6. Ten Weeks in Natal: A Journal of a First Tour of Visitation Among the by John William Colenso (1855)
"We had to get through one or two ugly " spruits," in crossing which, however, we
ran the danger, not of being drowned, but of being plunged, if we stepped ..."
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