"Australian" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... The Australian colonists, early in their career, found the sperm whale fishery easy of access from all their coasts, and especially lucrative. At one time they bade fair to establish a whale fishery that should rival the splendid trade of the Americans; but, like ...
— The Cruise of the Cachalot - Round the World After Sperm Whales • Frank T. Bullen
... well—it was like meat and drink to him. You meet men more or less like Jeremy Ross in any of earth's wild places, although you rarely meet his equal for audacity, irreverence and riotous good-fellowship. He isn't the only Australian by a long shot who upholds Australia by fist and boast and astounding gallantry, yet stays away from home. You couldn't fix Jeremy with concrete; he'd find some ...
— Affair in Araby • Talbot Mundy
... print—provided I suppressed names and places and sent my narrative out of the country. So I chose an Australian magazine for vehicle, as being far enough out of the country, and set myself to work on my article. And the ministers set the pumps going again, with the letter ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... mining "Age of Acrogens" Alethopteris Alizarin American coal-fields Ammoniacal liquor Aniline Aniline dyes Aniline oil, commercial Aniline salt Aniline "tailings" Anthracene Anthracite Artificial turpentine oil Asphalt Australian coals Aviculopecten ...
— The Story of a Piece of Coal - What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes • Edward A. Martin
... some mimosa flats, a day's journey ahead, had charged him, flung him into a water-hole, broken his arm, and made him lose his sugar and tea bag. Bulls in Australia are generally quiet, but this reminded me that some of the Highland black cattle imported by the Australian Company, after being driven off by a party of Gully Rakees (cattle stealers), had escaped into the mountains and turned quite wild. Out of this herd, which was of a breed quite unsuited to the country, a bull sometimes, when driven ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. • Various
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