Dungloe

They were going to a town called Dungloe, only fifty miles short of Cairns, which was the far northern terminus of the line which ran all the way along the Queensland coast.

The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977

Oh my love is tall and handsome and her age is scarce eighteen, she far exceeds all other fair maids when she trips o'er the green, her lovely neck and shoulders are fairer than the snow, till the day I die I'll ne'er deny my Mary from Dungloe.

Mary From Dungloe 1999

I'd call for liquor of the best and I'd pay before I go and I'd roll my Mary in my arms in the town of sweet Dungloe.

Mary From Dungloe 1999

'Tis in her father's garden the fairest violets grow, and 'twas there I came to court the maid, my Mary from Dungloe

Mary From Dungloe 1999

If I was at home in sweet Dungloe a letter I would write, kind thoughts would fill my bosom for Mary, my delight.

Mary From Dungloe 1999

And I wished I was in sweet Dungloe and seated on the grass.

Mary From Dungloe 1999

Dungloe was seventeen degrees south of the equator, so night fell like a thunderclap; one minute it seemed the sun was scarcely setting, and the next minute pitch-black darkness spread itself thick and warm like treacle.

The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977

Then he took her arm and walked her around Dungloe proudly, as if he owned it.

The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977

Left in Dungloe with the Muellers, Meggie sweated her way through The Wet, as the monsoon season was called.

The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977

Most of all she hated the dunny, which was not only the local patois for toilet but the diminutive for Dungloe, much to the delight of the local populace, who punned on it perpetually.

The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977