What is "rhodesian"

Usage examples of "rhodesian".

With this rifle he had killed leopards, lions, rhinos, buffalos, elephants by the hundred-and men, many men, in the days of the Rhodesian bush war.

As they drove towards Cholon, it was the Rhodesian who asked the questions.

With these high-spirited reinforcements and with his own hardy Rhodesians Plumer pushed on, and the two columns reached the hamlet of Masibi Stadt within an hour of each other.

They were 500 in number, Victorians, New South Welshmen, and Queenslanders, the latter the larger unit, with a corps of Rhodesians.

Oscar, our Rhodesian ridgeback, is found lying on the road outside our house and he has been sliced up and down with a panga.

Over the next few days Craig availed himself of the invitations to visit Bawu's old friends, and was smothered with traditional old Rhodesian hospitality.

The police band under the spathodea trees at the end of the lawn played light Italian operetta with an exuberant African beat, and only the motley selection of guests distinguished the gathering from a Rhodesian governor, general garden party that Craig had attended six years previously.

This Rhodesian Man is evidently still closer to real men than the Neanderthal Man.

A Rhodesian Ridgeback, it was, and apparently quite a handsome one.

Teddy Bear, her giant Rhodesian Ridgeback, who generally slept outside in the summer, was whining at the back door.

Along those narrow paths, whenever he could get home from Houston or the Moon, he had walked with his beloved Rhodesian Ridgeback, throwing sticks for him to retrieve, as man and dog had done from time immemorial.

Leila crossed the floor of sawn Rhodesian teak, the highly polished surface of which was strewn with tanned animal skins and hand-woven rugs in bold patterns and primary colours.

The morning paper was folded neatly o his side plate, and he shook it open at the front page as he sat dowl The main news was the proposed meeting between the British prim minister, Harold Wilson, and Ian Smith to settle the Rhodesian issm Now he saw that the suggested venue was a British warship at se Israel and Jordan were still disputing the Hebron Valley, and closer t home the Robben Island ferry had capsized during the night with th certain loss of at least two lives, while eight others were missing.

We saw the white people look out of their windows, like ghosts, and sometimes they would toss us one of their Rhodesian pennies-large copper coins with a hole in the middle-or, if we were lucky, a tiny silver coin we called a tickey, which could buy us a small tin of syrup.