What is "msasa"

Usage examples of "msasa".

The night apes scream from the tops of the shimmering-leafed msasa trees.

The sun has set in a red ball, sinking behind the quiet, stretching black limbs of the msasa trees on Oribi Ridge, which is where my parents moved after I was married.

And then she turns her horse onto the freshly planted maize field and begins tearing through it, between the still-bleeding stumps of the newly cut msasa trees.

Softly, voluptuously fertile and sweet-smelling of khaki weed, and old cow manure and thin dust and msasa leaves.

He shuffles outside, where he sits on his haunches under the great msasa tree and smokes.

His bulk was screened by the new growth of leaves on the msasa trees, and he blended with the grey rock of the slope behind him.

The msasa forests had given way to mopani and giant swollen baobabs that flourished in the heat, and the old bull could sense the water ahead and he rumbled thirstily deep in his belly.

Craig left the house and climbed the kopie behind it to the walled family cemetery that lay under the msasa trees beneath the rocky crest.

After dinner Joseph served coffee on the veranda, and when he left Craig switched out the lights and in the darkness they watched the moon rise over the toos of the msasa trees that lined the His across the valley.

He had sent Isabella off in the Toyota with Sean to check the leopard baits, and had then ordered Isaac and his staff to set up three chairs and a folding table under a msasa tree at the edge of the glade, but well away from the camp itself.

Under the msasa tree, the three of them, Garry, Shasa and Elsa Pignatelli, were as secure from eavesdropping as at any spot on the planet.

Shasa came to share that pride as he compared her to the other semi-naked bodies sunning themselves under the msasa trees on the green lawns.

The conference-table under the msasa tree was extended and additional chairs set out for Sir Clarence and his team.

He had managed to tear it off at last and had hurled it into the top of a msasa tree.

Or he would push over a msasa tree to get at the new leaf, leaning with his forehead against the trunk and snapping the three-foot diameter of hardwood with a report like a cannon shot, and immediately four or five greedy young cows would push themselves in front of him before he could sample the juicy pink leaves.