kopje

1 On lonely veldt and behind unassailable kopjes a daring and sullen foe held on.

2 He occupied Heerendorp, a ramshackle farmhouse under a kopje, and had cattle and horses, also a wife and grown-up sons and daughters.

3 They form the kopjes, or characteristic flat-topped hills of the Great Karroo.

4 This half-haunting, half-hilarious display is even more fascinating in the wild, where colonies of up to 60 individuals gather on kopjes, or rock outcroppings.

5 They went very warily now, looking keenly along the base of the little range of kopjes, to see that the hartebeests were not feeding quietly among the scattered bush that grew about the lower slopes.

6 The town nestled in the hollow of a plain, with low, wooded kopjes brooding round it.

7 I walked the ground until I was weary, then sat on a rock on the kopje side, wondering dully what further daggers for my heart Africa had hidden in her mantle.

8 Being almost immediately afterwards reinforced by the arrival of two regular battalions who had been pushed forward from Rettendon, a determined assault was made on the southern kopje.

9 They were about three miles away from the town, and in a position different from that from which the guns had shelled the kopje in the morning.

10 Three companies, however, had to remain on picket, including H company, which was to stay on the kopje it had originally occupied.

11 At length Koos found that he could stand the ramkee no longer, so he shifted his camp to the other side of the kopjes, where the tune could not reach his disgusted ears.

12 The old woman slept most of the day, but at night the cheerful firelight from the scherm lit up the kopjes long after the last of the Boers lay snoring.

13 Katryn had seen Max follow Susannah to the kopje, and, as she noticed the new look upon the girl’s face, had drawn her own conclusions.

14 I was thankful when at last Maurice Stair rode up to tell me that Kentucky Hills, my brother’s place, was just round the next kopje.

15 As the wagons cleared the circle of low kopjes it could be seen that the trek was an unusually large one.

16 Lighted candles did not drive them from the kopje pillow where they fought.

17 Had anybody heard the white man's shout, Caught by the kopjes, echoed in rebound?

18 Our camp was on a small kopje, or hill, with the river at its base, and with the first streaks of dawn we awoke our men.

19 The sea of zinias still swayed its multi-coloured waves below us, but boundaries had been set, and full-tide now only reached to the foot of the kopje.

20 There was a fair quantity of game about; Klaas shot some klipspringer antelopes—hereabouts comparatively tame—up in the mountains, and there were koodoos, steinbok and duykers in the bushes and kopjes.

1 丘陵

tumulose down hill fell downland

2 小山

mount hill knoll hummock toft mound pinnacle knap monticule spitzkoppie swelling pimple tuft hillock kop brae tuffet