Kopjes is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for KOPJES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• KOPJE, in South Africa, a small hill, also KOPPIE
• a small hill in a generally flat area.

Words related to KOPJES

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How to use KOPJES in a sentence

• The country was terribly rough as we drove the transports up and over the Orange River, and rougher still in the low kopjes on the other side.
• At that time we were not far from the edge of some kopjes, which, though lying low, were covered with rocky boulders and low scrub.
• In a few seconds Boers were dashing out of the kopjes on all sides, trying to cut the small band of Australians off or shoot them down.
• In war time the Boer never, under any circumstances, makes his laager in the open country if there are any kopjes about.
• The enemy could be seen by the aid of glasses slipping from the kopjes down towards this farm and back again at intervals.
• Properly speaking, it was not a valley at all, but a series of valleys interspersed by great kopjes, nearly all of which presented an almost impregnable appearance.
• The night was cold and rough, a bleak wind whistling amidst the kopjes half a mile away.
• On a flat piece of green in front of the rocky kopjes, where the enemy evidently was, I could see men, not running, but walking about in different directions.
• Australian and Canadian heroism was ushered into being on the grassy plains and kopjes of the Transvaal.
• But our people were retreating from the other kopjes, and we had to get to our horses as quickly as possible.
• The Boers took up their position in some kopjes in our line of march.
• Rimington with one squadron got into a tight place among some kopjes on our right.
• They have now retired, we presume, to the next range of kopjes, there to smoke their pipes and read their Bibles and await our coming.
• The railway going north leaves it to the right, but other hills and kopjes carry on the position westward across the railway, barring an advance.
• Are those kopjes out of range? is a question that suggests itself as we draw alongside, leaving them wide on our port beam.
• Suddenly several guns open from the kopjes ahead, the shells dropping well among us.
• All of a sudden you come to a crowd of low bungalow-like roofs under the shadow of some flat-topped kopjes and realise the presence in this void of the Free State capital.
• Suddenly a white flag was seen fluttering near the laager between the kopjes.
• Buller appears to have been unaware how far the Boer trenches extended towards the west, and to have assumed that only the kopjes immediately opposite Colenso were occupied.
• The drifts were held by small parties of the enemy, who offered no resistance, and on the evening of February 13 the Division took possession of the kopjes on the north bank.
• The whole area is commanded by the surrounding kopjes and ridges.
• However, Kelly-Kenny occupied Seven Kopjes without opposition, and it is said that the infantry on the south bank were never in touch with the enemy.
• These were the most eastern kopjes of the defences.
• An advance was made shortly afterwards towards Schwartz Kopjes, which place was reached without much opposition towards dark.
• Schwartz kopjes were immediately occupied by the Boers, who collected there in large numbers and endeavoured to get round the flanks of the column.
• Sometimes too, at nightfall, a large bird would fly with a strong harsh note across the stony veldt to the kopjes in the distance.
• Huge spiral columns of sand tear across the plain over the tops of the kopjes, carrying with them scraps of paper and rubbish of all sorts.
• The battle of Graspan consisted, as at Belmont, in a frontal attack upon a line of kopjes held by a much larger force of the enemy than was present at the earlier engagement.
• Lord Methuen succeeded in working his way to the foot of the kopjes, and a final rush swept the Boers away in headlong flight.
• A little to the north of the kopjes which formed the scene of the Graspan engagement lies the station of Enslin.
• At Richmond Road we came across a detachment of Cape Volunteers who were practising the capture of kopjes in the neighbourhood of the line.
• Vast gorges, black and brown kopjes, boulders, sand stretches, clumps of bush, minute trees.

Similar words containing KOPJE without suffix s

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