Example Sentences

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For a hundred years before the white settlers came, the Matabeles and the Mashonas raised live stock.

From An African Adventure by Marcosson, Isaac Frederick

Shortly after followed the sharp, dissonant yells of the Mashonas from their hut, fifty yards distant.

From From Veldt Camp Fires by Bryden, H.A.

Away on the southern horizon we could faintly perceive the floating yellow haze of the prairie fires lit by the Mashonas.

From Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose by Allen, Grant

There was a sound of firing at the little tree; and the cry went round the camp, "The Mashonas are releasing the spy!"

From Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Schreiner, Olive

I had hardly completed my preparations when the little party arrived, and I had an opportunity to study the first Mashonas I had ever seen.

From Through Veld and Forest An African Story by Webb, Archibald