Lexicographical Neighbors of Sjamboked
Literary usage of Sjamboked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Conspicuous Destruction: War, Famine, and the Reform Process in Mozambique by Human Rights Watch (Organization)., Human Rights Watch (Organization (1992)
"During the judgment those who had been robbed took what had been robbed at the
same time that the accused were sjamboked [lashed] in front of the Malawian ..."
2. South Africa After the War: A Narrative of Recent Travel by Edward Frederick Knight (1903)
"The Boers sjamboked unmercifully or shot natives whom they suspected of ...
The relatives of people who have been sjamboked to death do not readily forget. ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1902)
"They burned the farms of loyalists, murdered natives, sjamboked those who gave
information to our columns, and set at naught the laws of war. ..."
4. Basutoland: Its Legends and Customs by Minnie Martin (1903)
"... If he is idle he is sjamboked, kicked, and generally ill-used, and in some
cases even thus treated simply as a matter of course, though there is no ..."
5. The Great Boer War by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
"cried one of his wounded burghers, " for he sjamboked me into the firing line
this morning." Fifty dead and a great number of wounded were left upon the ..."
6. Mr Chamberlain: His Life and Public Career by Samuel Henry Jeyes (1903)
"... had been remitted, and others had been largely reduced. And how had the Boers
treated their own Rebels ? They shot, imprisoned, and sjamboked them ..."
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