Oom Paul

American  

[oom poh-ool] / um ˈpoʊ ʊl /

noun

1. Kruger, Stephanus Johannes Paulus.

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Example Sentences

In one message Oom Paul requests immediate information upon the whereabouts of Colonel Plumer.

From Project Gutenberg

He stood, as he himself was apt to remark, upon the border of the next world—looking back upon a span of four score years, possessing a knowledge of the affairs of these African Republics which had obtained for him the friendship of President Steyn and President Kruger; indeed, they had been comrades-in-arms, Oom Paul and himself, while he had seen Steyn spring into manhood from a stripling, and when his thoughts dwelt upon those days the voice of the old man became flooded with emotion.

From Project Gutenberg

The critical points in the present situation are the western and eastern borders of the Transvaal, where the young bloods from the backwoods are mostly gathered, and in their present state eminently calculated to force the hand of Oom Paul into an impromptu declaration of belligerency.

From Project Gutenberg

He was for six years minister of finance in the cabinet of the late Oom Paul Kruger, who has come to be regarded as one of the really great South Africans, his fame being greater to-day than at the time of his death.

From Project Gutenberg

At that time the Portuguese offered to sell Delagoa Bay to Oom Paul for twenty thousand pounds.

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