It was still light, but no time was to be lost; so hastily cutting down a number of the stunted thorn bushes with which the pan abounded, we proceeded to build a "scherm" in which to pass the night. ❋ Frederick Cornell (N/A)
A "scherm" can be made with heather or gorse -- only look out for its catching fire! ❋ Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baden-Powell Of Gilwell (1899)
By the time the "scherm" was finished the moon peeped up, and our dinners of giraffe steaks and roasted marrow-bones were ready. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
a little 'scherm', or small enclosure, fenced with thorn bushes, and to light a fire. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
The word for lampshade in Spanish is pantalla (pahn taya), in German it is lampenschirm (lam pen scherm) and in Swedish it is lampskarm (lamps-karm, like arm) (with an umlaut over the letter a) ❋ Unknown (2008)
The word for lampshade in Spanish is pantalla (pahn taya), in German it is lampenschirm (lam pen scherm) and in Swedish it is lampskarm (lamps-karm, like arm) ( with an umlaut over the letter a) ❋ Unknown (2008)
We had refrained from shooting, as it was impossible to see the brutes through our scherm; but as the fire got lower, and they became more daring, we sent a few shots among them, and the hellish hubbub that ensued showed that some of them were hit. ❋ Frederick Cornell (N/A)
There came a lull for a short time after this, and we were congratulating ourselves that morning would soon be dawning, when the lions would slink away, or when the light would enable us to finish them when without the least warning a huge form leapt clean over the hedge and landed in the centre of the scherm, scattering the few remaining embers in all directions. ❋ Frederick Cornell (N/A)
As night fell, however, their roars became louder and nearer, and by mid-night there were at least a dozen of them pacing round our scherm, and barely kept at a distance by the frequent fire - brands we threw over the fragile protection. ❋ Frederick Cornell (N/A)
Then I came back to the scherm, my mad fit of rage over, and nothing but grief, and a sorrow too deep for words to express, left in my heart. ❋ Frederick Cornell (N/A)
The next thing to this fifth scherm was some thick bush; the order was given to get into that, and in a moment we were out of sight there. ❋ Andrew Lang (1900)
At length as the night fell the king's men were driven back from their last scherm in the western half of the valley, across the open space back upon the koppie where stood the Tree of Doom. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
Here they stayed a while till, overmatched and outworn, they were pushed from its rocks across the narrow stretch of broken ground into the shelter of the great stone scherm or wall that ran from side to side of the further neck of the valley, whereon thousands of women and such men as could be spared had been working incessantly during the past night and day. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
We seized our rifles, and slipping on our veldtschoons, that is shoes made of untanned hide, ran out of the scherm. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
Having set some of the "boys" to cut off the best of the giraffe's meat, we went to work to build a "scherm" near one of the pools and about a hundred yards to its right. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
Kafirs, and between us managed to drag their carcases up to the scherm. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
Jan and I were following Ralph when he entered the river scherm, and reached it just in time to see pursued and pursuer vanishing up the narrow cleft. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
I also observed that those monkeys who were actually engaged in the construction of the scherm laid the bunches of thorns in place with elaborate care and, as it appeared to me, with quite amazing skill and cunning. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)
Some ten or twelve minutes after I had come to a halt the scherm was finished, and then came an end to the silence which the monkeys had been at such pains to observe during the progress of the work; for, with its completion, the creatures set up a sudden chattering and howling and shrieking which distinctly reached me even at the distance of a good half-mile. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)
I now found that the scherm, constructed of small branches of formidable thorns -- each thorn being nearly three inches long, and sharp-pointed as ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)
