Fingo
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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And in the rear marched the Fingo contingent, howling their war-song and looking intensely valiant now that the danger was over.
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Mitford, Bertram
On its green banks reclined a crowd of Fingo warriors, in their war attire of plumes, assegais, shields of bullock-hide, and their karosses draped gracefully round them.
From The Cape and the Kaffirs A Diary of Five Years' Residence in Kaffirland by Ward, Harriet
Rhodes sent for N'jube and asked him if he wanted to marry the Fingo girl.
From An African Adventure by Marcosson, Isaac Frederick
By the system of intelligence that he maintained, Rhodes learned of the frame-up, the whereabouts of the boy, and furthermore, that he was in love with a Fingo girl.
From An African Adventure by Marcosson, Isaac Frederick
I am thinking what your wife would do, if you should be caught, through the treachery of this Fingo.
From An I.D.B. in South Africa by Vescelius-Sheldon, Louise
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