What is "kemp"

Usage examples of "kemp".

He acted with remarkable swiftness: on the 27th he dispersed the commandos of Beyers and Kemp, and on 7 November General Smuts announced that there were but a few scattered bands of rebels in the Transvaal.

The burly Lucas Meyer, smart young Smuts fresh from the siege of Ookiep, Beyers from the north, Kemp the dashing cavalry leader, Muller the hero of many fights--all these with many others of their sun-blackened, gaunt, hard-featured comrades were grouped within the great tent of Vereeniging.

He focused his attention on the two most powerful spokesmen, Cassius of Bryn Shander and Kemp of Targos, as they sat at the head of the rectangular table and chatted.

Kemp said, raising a cosh and giving them each in turn a none too gentle tap on the crown of their heads.

He bounced out of the hole and as Koa caught him he told Kemp to go ahead.

With a quick movement Kemp thrust the Invisible Man back, sprang aside, and slammed the door.

Miss Kemp, forced to admit that Mary Clarke was her predecessor, acknowledged that she had taken the business over from her without a written agreement and without a lease of the premises, other than the original sub-lease to Mrs Mounter, which was, Miss Kemp said, yet another name for Mary Clarke.

Mary Clarke, alias Mrs Mounter, and later from a woman called Martha Kemp, both acting under the instructions of Gordon Longford?

Somewhere in the middle of it, while Kemp was supervising the recoupling of the tractors to the other end of the rig it was discovered that McGrath was missing.

Kemp had given Milly the address of an excellent pension near the Arc, at which Sam Reddon expressed a frank disgust.

Sarah Kemp walked across the cabin, smiled at Beaumont and then stopped directly in front of Drummond.

Kemp went to the door and began to slip the bolts as silently as possible.

Kemp had managed to furl the captured flags and now handed them to one of the troopers, then drew his saber to slash at the guy ropes of the nearest tents.

The village or town of Kalo, built at the base of the peninsula, close to the mouth of the Vanigela or Kemp Welch River, is said to be the wealthiest village in British New Guinea.

The harried Boers moved a hundred miles north to Rustenburg, followed by Methuen, Fetherstonhaugh, Hamilton, Kekewich, and Allenby, who found the commandos of De la Rey and Kemp to be scattering in front of them and hiding in the kloofs and dongas, whence in the early days of September no less than two hundred were extracted.