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Usage examples of "aasvogel".
Scarcely was this aasvogel down, when others, summoned from the depths of sky, did as he had done.
Even if the aasvogels settle on you, you must lie quite still, so that I may see whence they come and how they settle.
He said that the Zulus declared that the sacred aasvogels of Hloma Amabutu were as savage as lions, and that when once they saw a man down they would tear him to pieces, dead or living.
When this particular royalty had arrived, the other aasvogels, of which perhaps there were now fifty or sixty gathered round Hans, began to show signs of interested animation.
Dropping my glance I saw that the whole mob of aasvogels were rushing in upon Hans, helping themselves forward by flapping their great wings, and that about three feet in front of them was their king.
In this space lay the corpses of the murdered men and the two dead aasvogels, with Hans and myself standing opposite to them.
Presently that something appeared in the shape of an aasvogel which was nearly twice as big as any of the others.
So we went, and when Hans was a little composed I told him all that I had observed about the habits of the aasvogel in the air, and he told me all that he had observed about their habits on the ground, which, as I might not shoot them sitting, did not interest me.
As the charge exploded I saw the aasvogel give a kind of backward twist.
You must get behind them, and fire into their tails, for even an aasvogel cannot see with its tail.
I shall have to drop the aasvogel, and it did give such lovely local colour to the thing.