Lexicographical Neighbors of Sluits
Literary usage of Sluits
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Transvaal War, 1880-81 by Blanche St. John Moschzisker Bellairs, Lady Bellairs (1885)
"The town was supplied with water from the —- stream below and to the east of the
camp ground. supply. sluits, or deep furrows, having been cut to divert the ..."
2. The Transvaal War, 1880-81 by Blanche St. John Ballairs, Blanche St. John Moschzisker Bellairs, Lady Bellairs (1885)
"The town was supplied with water from the —- stream below and to the east of the
camp ground, supply. sluits, or deep furrows ..."
3. History of the War in South Africa, 1899-1902 by Great Britain War Office, John Frederick Maurice, Maurice Harold Grant (1907)
"The party now turned back, and on their way in the dim light of dawn came suddenly
on a strong Boer piquet entrenched in one of the deep sluits, which had ..."
4. Precis of the Archives of the Cape of Good Hope by H. C. V. Leibbrandt, Jan van Riebeeck (1902)
"... to cut down all the high bushes surrounding them and fill in all .the sluits,
and in order to mark off and enclose their plots to use some dry stuff, ..."
5. Farming Industries of Cape Colony by Robert Wallace, Harry Stratford Caldecott (1896)
"A portion of the soil has lodged in the hollows, and this has subsequently been
cut in many places by deep sluits, and is again beginning to wash away. ..."
6. Zululand and Cetewayo: Containing an Account of Zulu Customs, Manners, and by Walter Robert Ludlow (1882)
"Adams seemed rather to enjoy .my dismay, and remarked, that we should have to
wade, and that these sluits were frequented by crocodiles. ..."
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