Example Sentences

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Just as soon as it was unveiled the Matabeles expressed considerable astonishment over it.

From An African Adventure by Marcosson, Isaac Frederick

“It would appear,” said the missionary, who was busy preparing some skins of birds he had shot, “that a strong party of the Matabeles have joined their king.”

From The Ruined Cities of Zululand by Walmsley, Hugh Mulleneux

They reached the other bank only to find Forbes hotly engaged with another force of the Matabeles.

From Real Soldiers of Fortune by Davis, Richard Harding

The Matabeles and Mashona tribes between them contrived to render the country uninhabitable.

From South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899 by Creswicke, Louis

Umkopo, as the name suggests, had something to do with the Zulus or Matabeles.

From Chatterbox, 1906 by Clarke, J. Erskine (John Erskine)