Oom Paul
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Oom Paul quickly recognized young Smuts's ability, made him State Attorney at 28, though he was not legally eligible.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sentence was commuted to 15 years' imprisonment, and after some months, thanks to a world-wide storm of protest and Oom Paul Krugers canniness, quashed.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Pretoria, Oom Paul Kruger's old Boer capital, the Minister of External Affairs Eric Louw talks of the eventual need to establish diplomatic relations with 'the independent black nations.
From Time Magazine Archive
With a Bible in his pocket and a bandoleer over his shoulder, pudgy James Barry Munnik Hertzog fought the soldiers of Great Britain for three years as one of Oom Paul Kruger's Boer generals.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mother told me that there was trouble between the British and Boers and that my father had received certain orders from Oom Paul Kruger.
From Adventures in Swaziland The Story of a South African Boer by O'Neil, Owen Rowe
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