How To Use laager In A Sentence
- Before this weary conflict came to a close, nearly every Boer family was gathered in from the perils and privations of the war-wasted veldt; and so, while nearly 30,000 burghers were detained as prisoners of war at various points across the sea, their wives and children, to the number of over 100,000, were tenderly cared for in English laagers all along the line of rails or close to conveniently situated towns. With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
- Every morning my brother and I had our horses fetched from the grazing-ground and rode out to visit neighbouring camps and laagers, eager to see all that we could.
- He ordered the wagons to be inspanned, but left where they were, and refused requests to allow them to be laagered.
- Having pitched his laager, the commander sends out his scouts; some amble off on horseback at a pace they call a "tripple" -- a gait which all the Boers educate their nags to adopt. Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front
- The rest of the British movement was successfully carried out, the enemy retiring before them; but although all the troops were out, except those absolutely needed for garrisoning the works, the enemy's field bases -- "laagers" -- could not be reached. Story of the War in South Africa 1899-1900
- We could see the town of Colesberg (President Kruger's birthplace), and all the Boer laagers around it.
- Johannesburg is rapidly being surrounded by a laager of Eurotrash casinos.
- What I said was that in this day and age, it is ridiculous to think that we can all live in our racially exclusive laagers. Is That Legal?: Fundraising Through Falsehood at VDare.com
- Advances in transportation and communications technology is rendering obsolete the idea that we can all wall ourselves off into racially exclusive laagers. Is That Legal?: Fundraising Through Falsehood at VDare.com
- Here in the dark the squadron laagered and passed an uncomfortable night constantly on the alert in expectation of a German counter attack.
