Rooinek

a cursed "Rooinek," allows her temper to run away with her discretion.

Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front A. G. Hales

Now Krool understood, and he made as if to spring on Stafford, but a pistol suddenly faced him, and he knew well that what Stafford would not do in cold blood, he would do in the exercise of his duty and as a soldier before these Rooinek privates.

The Judgment House Gilbert Parker 1897

Then an evil smile passed over his face, as he thought of the fall of the Rooinek -- of Dr. Jim in Oom Paul's clutches.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

He, more than all of them, had been in open conflict with Oom Paul in the the past, had fought him the most vigorously, and yet for him the old veldschoen Boer had some regard and much respect, in so far as he could respect a Rooinek at all.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

These were both here as they were when Elias Brinkwort and his people went out to join the Boer army in the hills, knowing that the verdomde Rooinek would not loot his house or ravage his belongings.

The Judgment House Gilbert Parker 1897

He help Oom Paul against the Rooinek -- against the Philistine.

The Judgment House Gilbert Parker 1897

Then an evil smile passed over his face, as he thought of the fall of the Rooinek -- of Dr. Jim in Oom Paul's clutches.

The Judgment House Gilbert Parker 1897

Not a shot had been fired, and there would certainly have been firing if the Boer had known; for he could not allow the Rooinek to get to the point where his own position would be threatened or commanded.

The Judgment House Gilbert Parker 1897

"To-morrow" was here, and it would bring the challenge from Oom Paul to try the might of England against the iron courage of those to whom the Vierkleur was the symbol of sovereignty from sea to sea and the ruin of the Rooinek.

The Judgment House Gilbert Parker 1897

He, more than all of them, had been in open conflict with Oom Paul in the the past, had fought him the most vigorously, and yet for him the old veldschoen Boer had some regard and much respect, in so far as he could respect a Rooinek at all.

The Judgment House Gilbert Parker 1897