Like the horned cattle, he can tell by the smell of it in the air the near presence of water, and where, glaring in the sun, you can see only a bare kopje, he distinguishes the muzzle of a pompom, the crown of a Boer sombrero, the levelled barrel of a Mauser.
"Real Soldiers of Fortune"
Richard Harding Davis
"They are very amusing," said the marchioness, sharing the hilarity of her husband, and looking at Rose-pompom through her glass; then she resumed, in about a minute, addressing herself to Adrienne: "I am quite certain of one thing.
"The Wandering Jew, Book VIII."
Eugene Sue
One of the columns had sent out 300 men and a pompom in pursuit of Hertzog's fugitives, and the force had just returned with quite a haul of prisoners.
"On the Heels of De Wet"
The Intelligence Officer