Dopper

The Dopper is the ultra Boer of South Africa, the Puritan of Puritans, the Covenanter of Covenanters, whose religious creed and conduct are compacted of manifold rigidities, and who would deem it as unpardonable a sin to shave off his beard, as it would have been for an early Methodist preacher to wear one.

With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back Edward P. Lowry

Just opposite stands the little chapel of the so-called Dopper sect in which he occasionally preaches.

Impressions of South Africa James Bryce Bryce 1880

The agency said its Dopper radar indicated a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado near Centreville.

Local tornado warnings are over 2011

There are also two good-sized Dopper churches, which habitually remain void and empty all the year round, except on one Sunday in each quarter, when the farmer folk come from near and far to hold a fair, and to celebrate the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper -- "The night meal," as they appropriately call it.

With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back Edward P. Lowry

These are the four great events of the Dopper year, and of this tiny city's business life.

With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back Edward P. Lowry

As I rode down the solitary street I found a big burly _Dopper_ flogging brutally a half-grown native boy.

The Secrets of the German War Office Dr. Armgaard Karl Graves

His florid bearded face, thick-set figure and his deep guttural growls reminded me of a Boer _Dopper_.

The Secrets of the German War Office Dr. Armgaard Karl Graves

No wonder Pretoria with its dominant Dopper Church, and its still more decidedly dominant Dopper President, mistook the true hour of its destiny, and madly made war precisely when peace was easiest of attainment.

With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back Edward P. Lowry

The only sign of movement is that eight young Boers, theological students of the Dopper or strict Lutheran college here, left last night for the Free State for active service.

From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War G. W. Steevens

And when one realises the old Dopper President hemmed in once more by the hurrying tide of civilisation, from which his people have fled for generations -- trying to fight both Fate and Nature, standing up to stem a tide as resistless as the eternal sea -- one sees the pathos of the picture.

South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899 Louis Creswicke