Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who free-selects crown lands in Australia. See
free-selection .
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Examples
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And when a young man did come, who might make matters so pleasant for them, Harry quarreled with him because he was a free-selector.
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Nevertheless the man was a free-selector, and had taken a bit of the Gangoil run after a fashion which to Heathcote was objectionable politically, morally, and socially.
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Let me explain to you that a free-selector may be, and very often is, a rich man.
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The sun has a right to be there, and is no interloper, like a free-selector.
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Where the wily free-selector walks in armour-plated pants,
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Johnson was a free-selector, and his brain went rather queer,
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The sun has a right to be there, and is no interloper, like a free-selector.
Harry Heathcote of Gangoil Anthony Trollope 1848
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Let Medlicot in regard to character be what he might, he was a free-selector, and a squatter's enemy, and had clinched his hostility by employing a servant dismissed from the very run out of which he had bought his land.
Harry Heathcote of Gangoil Anthony Trollope 1848
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And when a young man did come, who might make matters so pleasant for them, Harry quarreled with him because he was a free-selector.
Harry Heathcote of Gangoil Anthony Trollope 1848
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Let me explain to you that a free-selector may be, and very often is, a rich man.
Harry Heathcote of Gangoil Anthony Trollope 1848
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