How To Use Inspan In A Sentence
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They were most unwilling to lose him, offered to do anything in their power for his comfort, and even when his oxen were "inspanned" and he was on the point of moving, they offered to build a new house without expense to him in some other place, if only he would not leave them.
The Personal Life of David Livingstone
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I inspanned my fourhorsed wagon, and we started upon a forty-mile march to overtake the flanking column.
MY EARLY LIFE
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While we were busy inspanning we heard the enemy's bomb-Maxim, and before the waggons had forded the dangerous drift of the donga near
On Commando
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For miles and miles men were quickly at work sinking holes into the ground; camp-fires were flaming; teamsters were inspanning and outspanning their oxen, and wagons were creaking.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
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The waentjies had functioning disselbooms, jukke and skeie complete with carefully cut riempies spantoue for inspanning the oxen.
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I felt the hot prickle of fear down my spine as I helped the sergeant. get the beasts inspanned - they were horses, thank God; bullocks would have been useless if we were going to have to cut out as fast as Moran seemed to think we must.
Watershed
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A week later, a train of seven waggons stood with the oxen "inspanned," or yoked, ready to leave the camp, from which many similar trains had previously set out.
The Settler and the Savage
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inspanned," and the day following that on which the order was received they set off towards the shores of the Indian Ocean.
The Settler and the Savage
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The Boers charged the hill four times, and were inspanning wagons preparatory to a retreat, when our men were forced to fall back owing to their reserve.
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An hour after inspanning they came to another and larger village, which had fallen to decay as had the first.
The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series
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Paddock was a fellow I had done a good turn to out on the Selakwe, and I had inspanned him as my servant as soon as I got to England.
The Thirty-Nine Steps
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He would have to wait at Rustchuk to get his return cargo, and could easily inspan a fresh engineer.
Greenmantle
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The next morning the safari filed out from the camp, the Masai greeting the inspanning with huge delight.
The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series
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The waentjies had functioning disselbooms, jukke and skeie complete with carefully cut riempies spantoue for inspanning the oxen.
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Jewcy editor Izzy Grinspan has a meditation on Counting Crows leadman Adam Duritz that hit a little close to home for this formerly moody high school student when she wrote, the Counting Crows became a sort of gateway drug — the last mainstream band they ever liked.
Shabbat Surfing: Big Weekend For Jewish Films « The Blog at 16th and Q
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He called them by the words they use on the veld, and the first star of morning he called the _voorlooper_ -- the little boy who inspans the oxen -- a name I had not heard for twenty years.
Mr. Standfast
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Once they were at close quarters, there wasn't a hope, and by the look of it, through that hell of smoke and gunfire and fleeing men, with Kaffirs rushing past, and the gunners and wagon-men frantically trying to inspan and flee, the surviving remnants of the 24th weren't going to hold that huge press of Zulus more than a matter of minutes.
Watershed
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There was a long journey ahead of us, so we only remained during the time that was occupied in outspanning the tired mules and inspanning the fresh lot.
Argentina from a British Point of View
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But, the idea of identifying former leaders on the continent to inspan into our programme of renewal and development, should be given support.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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inspan the draft animals
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South African interests, enriched by black empowerment, can be inspanned to offer Africa real progress in a whole range of activities, eg in mutual trade and commerce, air traffic control, stock exchanges, telecommunications, etc.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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With drag ropes it was moved down the hill for some distance, and then an attempt was made to inspan the oxen.
A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition
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The conference stressed that caring for those with HIV is in every way an intersectoral effort - across disciplines, across the government/civil divide, inspanning professional and lay workers alike.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Glancing up, they saw Schoverling and the gun-bearers catching up their weapons, while the natives were leading the cattle away from the wagon, the inspanning having already begun for the march.
The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series
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There was a long journey ahead of us, so we only remained during the time that was occupied in outspanning the tired mules and inspanning the fresh lot.
Argentina from a British Point of View
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For miles and miles men were quickly at work sinking holes into the ground; camp-fires were flaming; teamsters were inspanning and outspanning their oxen, and wagons were creaking.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
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Kekana suggested that Westbury take the Soweto option - inspanning law abiding youths in the area at act as the "eyes and ears" of the community in rooting out and identifying criminals.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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I did not hesitate a moment, in fact no wink of sleep had I that night, but lay tossing and turning, longing for daylight to come that I might inspan and commence my long trek.
A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa
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Then orders were given to "inspan" all our carts and other conveyances as the commandos would all have to retire.
My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War
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Dit is een van die sterkpunte van die AHI dat dit hierdie vaardighede en middele inspan in die opbou van 'n nuwe demokratiese Suid-Afrika.
NOTES FOR A SPEECH BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT A MEETING WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF THE AFRIKAANSE HANDELSINSTITUUT
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He ordered the wagons to be inspanned, but left where they were, and refused requests to allow them to be laagered.
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There was no time to talk to Katrina in the bustle of inspanning and working the wagons across the corduroy bridge.
When the Lion Feeds
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Whilst we were hastily inspanning and upsaddling, Theron came in from the right, bringing with him a captured Hussar.
With Steyn and De Wet
