Lexicographical Neighbors of Riems
Literary usage of Riems
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elocution and Action by Frank Townsend Southwick (1903)
"The riems had cut a little into his ankles, and a small flow of blood had made
the ground ... In an instant the riems that bound the feet were cut through; ..."
2. Gun and Camera in Southern Africa: A Year of Wanderings in Bechuanaland, the by Henry Anderson Bryden (1893)
"If an ox is more than usually troublesome he is summarily cast, his legs are
fastened tightly together, and his head is firmly roped with hide riems close ..."
3. Gun and Camera in Southern Africa: A Year of Wanderings in Bechuanaland, the by Henry Anderson Bryden (1893)
"If an ox is more than usually troublesome he is summarily cast, his legs are
fastened tightly together, and his head is firmly roped with hide riems close ..."
4. Tales from Natal: Stories about Boers and Blacks by A. R. R. Turnbull (1901)
"Then added, sneer- ingly, ' I was not aware horse-hides were used to make riems.
I'd rather flay a louse for the sake of its skin than a horse, ..."
5. Lake Ngami, Or, Explorations and Discoveries During Four Years' Wanderings by Charles John Andersson, John Charles Frémont (1857)
"They delight, however, in an amazing quantity of thin leathern " riems" (forming
... These "riems"—which are often many hundred feet in length—serve as a ..."
6. An Expedition of Discovery Into the Interior of Africa: Through the Hitherto by James Edward Alexander (1838)
"The Rejected" lowered his ancient rival by riems, or thongs of leather, ...
With that he divided the riems (which were made fast to a bush) with his knife, ..."
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