Matabeles
- plural of Matabele.
Example Sentences
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It was impossible for the Matabeles to understand the wisdom of this procedure.
From An African Adventure by Marcosson, Isaac Frederick
The movement surprised a score or so of Matabeles, who had approached very softly in the darkness—a kind of advance-guard, I suppose, sent to reconnoitre and report to the main body.
From Chatterbox, 1906 by Clarke, J. Erskine (John Erskine)
You pass from the green low-lands to the bare frontiers of the rocky domain where the Matabeles fled after the second war and where the Father of Rhodesia held his historic parleys with them.
From An African Adventure by Marcosson, Isaac Frederick
After two months of negotiating the Matabeles were appeased and permanent peace, so far as the natives were concerned, dawned in Rhodesia.
From An African Adventure by Marcosson, Isaac Frederick
Although at the moment he did not know it, he also was being pursued by a force of Matabeles, who were gradually surrounding him.
From Real Soldiers of Fortune by Davis, Richard Harding
