How To Use Outspan In A Sentence
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He brings his waggon with him, and outspans on some open space within the town.
The Boer in Peace and War
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At 9.30 that morning the column moved on again, reached outspan at twenty miles by 1.35 in the afternoon, rested for an hour and a half and pushed on again till a quarter before midnight, when it rode into Wilhelmsfeste.
With Botha in the Field
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And the care-free heart outspans Where the camp-fires star the slopes, And time and tears and the troubled past Seem lost in tomorrow's hopes.
Canada Finds Her Voice
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I at once went back and informed De Wet, who ordered the column to halt and outspan.
With Steyn and De Wet
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It was night as a rule before the column reached its camp, and there were some gorgeous pictures in the great outspanning commotion seen through dust clouds and the red sunset, and by light of many camp fires.
The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900
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You’re just jealous because a) of my Sylvia Plath’s cat remark a few weeks ago, and b) that my ass outspans your ass by a comfortable margin.
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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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We'll need those traps here, I guess," declared Charlie when the outspanning was going on.
The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series
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Visit Hugo's; dinner Van As; outspan (rest); cigar grand.
Woman's Endurance
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There was nothing for it but to outspan and carry the heavy loads up the steep bank.
With Steyn and De Wet
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British commando halted to-day would not reach Fauresmith until evening to-morrow; a Boer _paarde kommando_ will have done its fifty miles by the time one of our 'crawlers' outspans for breakfast.
On the Heels of De Wet
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We then outspanned for the night.
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Following Mushroom Valley, we trekked, with two brief outspans only, to
With Botha in the Field
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outspan the draft animals
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Yet, as Cassy Mavor looked out upon the exquisite beauty of the scene, upon the splendid outspanning of the sun along the hills, the deep plangent blue of the sky and the thrilling light, she saw
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
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This is my outspan place, the Boer explained to him.
When the Lion Feeds
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Just before outspanning to-day, Boey, being on horseback looking for water, met with a majestic one, which stood still and looked at him.
Robert Moffat The Missionary Hero of Kuruman
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At our outspan at noon yesterday he came to me and offered me my liberty if I would help him.
Prester John
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I outspanned on what is now Market Square and let the oxen graze there whilst I walked up to where my Aunt lay ill in a tent.
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Since they had left Pretoria the small voices of the jackals had yapped discreetly around each outspan, they were so much a part of the African night that they went unnoticed, but now suddenly there was a difference.
When the Lion Feeds
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After going some miles, I was pleased to see the waggons turning off the slippery track on to the veldt and outspanning.
A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition
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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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Sean left MbeJane to outspan the wagons on the open square in front of the church and he went to search for a doctor.
When the Lion Feeds
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Yet, as Cassy Mavor looked out upon the exquisite beauty of the scene, upon the splendid outspanning of the sun along the hills, the deep plangent blue of the sky and the thrilling light, she saw a world in agony and she heard the moans of the afflicted.
Northern Lights
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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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From an early start the following morning they put another twenty miles behind them before outspan that night and twenty more the next day.
When the Lion Feeds
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The trek was done at a fierce pace till midnight, when an outspan was ordered; the party slept for four hours, and made Otjimbingwe just as the dawn of the 1st of May was breaking.
With Botha in the Field
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Its decline set in on what day the first lank "nester" from the States outspanned his sun-burned team as he pulled up beside some sweet water on the rolling lands, somewhere in the West, and looked about him, and looked again at the land map held in his hand.
The Passing of the Frontier; a chronicle of the old West
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At lunchtime the editor of the East African Standard telephoned the princess's secretary, Martin Charteris, at the Outspan to ask if the teleprinter reports were true.
The day Princess Elizabeth became Queen
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The trekking routes and outspans - a term derived from unyoking a team of oxen - became major channels of communication into the interior.
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After midnight, outspanning in a piercing wind, we formed square; main guard was posted over the General's car, and those lucky enough to escape turn of duty huddled together under cloaks and dozed fitfully until two-thirty.
With Botha in the Field
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He can gallop on the wild horses of wave and wind, outspanning his team in the caravanserai of night.
The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
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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