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- noun Plural form of
bushfighter .
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Examples
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In some respects it belongs on the same shelf with Meshach Browning's; for we think the best chapters in it are those which bring us into contact with Cartwright and other Methodist ministers, the frontiersmen and bushfighters of the Church, who do not bandy subtilties with
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 Various
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Virginian bushfighters; and the redcoat troops held such contempt towards the buckskin frontiersmen that friction arose from the first about the relative rank of regulars and provincials.
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Loudon, the English commander, did not arrive in New York till well on in midsummer of 1756, and he found far different material from the trained bushfighters in the hands of Montcalm.
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The Virginian bushfighters alone knew how to meet such an emergency.
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George Washington was the officer in charge of a thousand bushfighters to guard this frontier.
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Under a chief of such a stamp, they were admirable bushfighters, and such were those now chosen to lead them.
Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV Francis Parkman 1858
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Kindred impulses, in ruder forms, possessed the humbler colonists, drove them into the forest, and made them hardy woodsmen and skilful bushfighters, though turbulent and lawless members of civilized society.
A Half-Century of Conflict - Volume II Francis Parkman 1858
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You’d be overdoing it, as a fiction writer, if you had Congolese bushfighters eating their enemies’ flesh during an ebola outbreak … except that it’s happening as I write.
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You'd be overdoing it, as a fiction writer, if you had Congolese bushfighters eating their enemies 'flesh during an ebola outbreak … except that it's happening as I write. "
Comic Book Resources 2009
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