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Definition of Oom Paul Kruger
1. Noun. Boer statesman (1825-1904).
Generic synonyms: National Leader, Solon, Statesman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oom Paul Kruger
Literary usage of Oom Paul Kruger
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. War in South Africa and the Dark Continent from Savagery to Civilization by William Harding (1899)
"CHAPTER X. PRESIDENT "OOM" PAUL KRUGER AND HIS HELPMATE. Before delving any deeper
into the troubles of the Boers we must glance at the leading characters ..."
2. The Land of Sunshine by Charles Fletcher Lummis (1899)
"Oom Paul Kruger, SOUTH AFRICA. ON HIS BIRTHDAY BY JOAQUÍN MILLSP His shield a
skin, his sword a prayer : Seventy-five years old to day I Yet mailed young ..."
3. General Botha: The Career and the Man by Harold Spender (1916)
"J/a ft/34 Ever since the Boer War rumors have waxed and waned about a huge treasure
of gold left hidden by Oom Paul Kruger, the last president of the ..."
4. The Story of South Africa: An Account of the Historical Transformation of by John Clark Ridpath, Edward Sylvester Ellis (1899)
"The Dutch have produced no greater leader than "Oom" Paul Kruger, President of
the South African Republic. Whatever may be the justice of the contentions ..."
5. The Nineteenth Century (1896)
"Why, even old Oom Paul Kruger himself, whom, to see nowadays in his suit of shiny,
sanctimonious black cloth and top hat, sitting on his own stoep at ..."
6. The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture edited by Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke (1918)
"... civil war between 1860 and 1870 Commandant Kruger fought valiantly. r- • " , , "OOM
PAUL"KRUGER When Van Rensburg became President of the Boer Republic ..."
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