askaris
- plural of askari.
Example Sentences
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All the askaris were on their tea break at the time.
From Newsweek ● Sep. 5, 2013
Under his command were some 21,000 Savoy Grenadiers, seven legions of askaris* and a reserve of some 70,000 semi-trained labor troops.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tanganyika's President Julius Nyerere took the most direct approach: he announced that both battalions of his Tanganyika Rifles would be disbanded and the aberrant askaris replaced by members of his party's militant Youth Wing.
From Time Magazine Archive
The capture by the askaris had made but little difference to her, for, as she phrased it, the beak of her soul was like unto the mouth of the crocodile.
From Witch-Doctors by Beadle, Charles
Upon the hill of MKoffo was a palisade enclosing the barracks of two companies of the askaris and two guns.
From Witch-Doctors by Beadle, Charles
