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  • Fifteen miles to the westward, they could see the pretty town of Paramatta, which is a favorite resort for Sydney merry-makers; while to the eastward, the broad line of the Pacific Ocean was spread before their gaze.

    The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent Thomas Wallace Knox 1865

  • The siege is taking place at a barristers' chambers across the street from the Family Court in the Sydney suburb of Paramatta.

    Sydney Police in Child-Hostage Standoff Ross Kelly 2011

  • I went with him to Thompson Marconi Sonar out at Paramatta: pretty impressive technology - they build everything from towed arrays for seismographic work to mine-hunter sonars and of course sonars for submarines.

    Journal for 28 October Alex Allan 2009

  • By 1825 when he was encouraged to go home “too pro-convicts” or “too prosettlers,” take your pick, Brisbane had logged no fewer than 7,385 southern-sky stars at the observatory he built in Paramatta outside Sydney.

    American Connections James Burke 2007

  • By 1825 when he was encouraged to go home “too pro-convicts” or “too prosettlers,” take your pick, Brisbane had logged no fewer than 7,385 southern-sky stars at the observatory he built in Paramatta outside Sydney.

    American Connections James Burke 2007

  • He had a shooting party, chiefly foreigners: there was a Chinese (a pleasant man), two South Americans, the Duke of Paramatta, the Australian ambassador, and a New

    A Dialogue for the Year 2130 2002

  • I do against Birmingham and Paramatta, with their crack machines, that would fly like balloons over a ten foot wall.

    A Dialogue for the Year 2130 2002

  • The same way with land; he bought up all the little bits of allotments with cottages on them round Paramatta and Windsor way and Campbelltown — all them old-fashioned sleepy old places near Sydney, for cash, and cheap enough.

    Robbery Under Arms 2004

  • Paramatta, which I ought to have won; but he had greatly the advantage in point of equipment.

    A Dialogue for the Year 2130 2002

  • The first stage took us to Paramatta, a small country town, next to Sydney in importance.

    Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

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