hands-up

Updated: June 3, 2025

Only the inhabitants of the township remained, and they were but too ready to "hands-up." One of these, however, was of a different mould. I refer to Veldtcornet Thring, who had arrived with me at Kroonstad that morning, but who had suddenly fallen ill. On the day following he was a prisoner in the hands of the English. Thring was an honourable man in every way.

Christiaan Rudolf De Wet - Three Years' War