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- noun Plural form of
myall .
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Examples
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Just because I'm white and have an urge to smack people whose skin is not as pale as mine does not mean I want to attack koories and myalls.
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There were a number of gums, but not very large, also plenty of myalls there.
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All were myalls, living naked among the mountains in gorges gloomy with jungle, and but rarely hunting on the foothills.
Tropic Days 2003
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Toward the east there was a boundary of myalls and gum-trees, beyond which rose Mount Hottam, its imposing peak towering 7,500 feet high.
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A mob of “myalls” (wild blacks) — they were all myalls then — was employed by a selector to clear the jungle from his land.
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Hu Dra had begun his weekly round when he had been attacked by myalls.
Tropic Days 2003
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"Look here, I say, old man, that poor little beggar's frightened out of her wits of the myalls down by the creek there."
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"No," she said, "no, not when the myalls are down along the creek."
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Where waving to the passing breeze the silver myalls stand,
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Hu Dra had begun his weekly round when he had been attacked by myalls.
Tropic Days 1887
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