Lexicographical Neighbors of Inspans
Literary usage of Inspans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Twenty-Five Years in a Waggon [Sic] by Andrew A. Anderson (1888)
"McArthur's driver 1 find very useful ; he is a Zulu and speaks English. 23rd.—Very
warm, 105°. Treked in two inspans to ..."
2. Kloof and Karroo: Sport, Legend and Natural History in Cape Colony, with a by Henry Anderson Bryden (1889)
"... and inspans, of vast herds of game—now, alas ! sadly reduced—of desperate
fights with Kaffirs, and raids on Bushman hordes, too often, alas ! sullied by ..."
3. Twenty-five Years in a Waggon: Sport and Travel in South Africa by Andrew A. Anderson (1888)
"We therefore hastened our departure to get clear of the dense bush before night,
and after two inspans arrived at an open space close to a small brook of ..."
4. Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society by Royal Society of South Africa (1878)
"... the country is one of those sandy ridges covered with forest so common in the
country. About 6 inspans, or 45 miles from Panta ma ..."
5. Peculiar People in a Pleasant Land: A South African Narrative by Reginald Fenton (1905)
"They traveled at a snail's pace, and by short inspans, so as to keep in with the
wood-wagons; and this made it easy for him to do as much of the journey on ..."
6. The War to Date (March 1, 1900) by Arthur Hodgkin Scaife (1900)
"If a Boer has a basketful of peaches or a litter of sucking pigs to take to
market, he always inspans ten, twelve, fourteen, or sixteen oxen— whatever ..."
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