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The bushman's keen ears warned him, and he sprang to his feet, bow and arrow in hand, the arrow fixed in the notch and the bow bending as he sprang.
Chapter 24 2010
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He had hair like black steel wool, worn long like a bushman's mop.
Minnesota Menage Jack Swenson 2010
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As he neared the site of the depot he raised his voice in the long-drawn-out bushman's cry: Coo-ee, Coo-ee, and he shouted out the names of the men they had left there, Brahe, McDonough, Patton.
The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001
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The bushman's daughter is dirty yellow, like river water in flood time.
Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front A. G. Hales
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(Hallett's) square, determined bushman's back as he jogged along in front of her, and compared it with Blake's easy, graceful, rather rakish, bearing.
Australian Writers Desmond Byrne
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Bill's heart, like every bushman's heart, was full of that faith and devotion which passes all understanding.
The Kangaroo Marines R. W. Campbell
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The bushman's slender equipment had been reduced to its scantiest proportions, and yet it seemed cruelty to force them to carry even those slender packs; even the canvas water-bags, dry as tinder now, hanging at their necks, were
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He fingered a half-crown in his pocket, with a bushman's careless generosity.
The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel John Maurice Miller
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Ned, with his keen bushman's eyes, saw in it a stout heavy-jawed dame, large of arm and huge of bust, decked out in all the fashion, and insolent of face as one replete with that which others craved.
The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel John Maurice Miller
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Squatter's cabins were now appearing, as contrasted with the native bushman's peaked hut; sleeping-places thrown together of tin cans, boxes and jungle rubbish, many negro shanties built of
Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Harry Alverson Franck 1921
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