scherm

It was still light, but no time was to be lost; so hastily cutting down a number of the stunted thorn bushes with which the pan abounded, we proceeded to build a "scherm" in which to pass the night.

A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa Frederick Cornell

A "scherm" can be made with heather or gorse -- only look out for its catching fire!

Young Knights of the Empire : Their Code, and Further Scout Yarns Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baden-Powell of Gilwell 1899

By the time the "scherm" was finished the moon peeped up, and our dinners of giraffe steaks and roasted marrow-bones were ready.

King Solomon's Mines Henry Rider Haggard 1890

a little 'scherm', or small enclosure, fenced with thorn bushes, and to light a fire.

Allan Quatermain Henry Rider Haggard 1890

The word for lampshade in Spanish is pantalla (pahn taya), in German it is lampenschirm (lam pen scherm) and in Swedish it is lampskarm (lamps-karm, like arm) (with an umlaut over the letter a)

abat-jour - French Word-A-Day 2008

The word for lampshade in Spanish is pantalla (pahn taya), in German it is lampenschirm (lam pen scherm) and in Swedish it is lampskarm (lamps-karm, like arm) ( with an umlaut over the letter a)

abat-jour - French Word-A-Day 2008

We had refrained from shooting, as it was impossible to see the brutes through our scherm; but as the fire got lower, and they became more daring, we sent a few shots among them, and the hellish hubbub that ensued showed that some of them were hit.

A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa Frederick Cornell

There came a lull for a short time after this, and we were congratulating ourselves that morning would soon be dawning, when the lions would slink away, or when the light would enable us to finish them when without the least warning a huge form leapt clean over the hedge and landed in the centre of the scherm, scattering the few remaining embers in all directions.

A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa Frederick Cornell

As night fell, however, their roars became louder and nearer, and by mid-night there were at least a dozen of them pacing round our scherm, and barely kept at a distance by the frequent fire - brands we threw over the fragile protection.

A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa Frederick Cornell

Then I came back to the scherm, my mad fit of rage over, and nothing but grief, and a sorrow too deep for words to express, left in my heart.

A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa Frederick Cornell