sheep-station

They therefore followed the banks of the Comnaroy rivulet, not doubting but that they would discover some stock — or sheep-station, of which there were a good many to the right of the Bathurst country.

Ralph Rashleigh 2004

The camp we left, namely, XXIX, or “MOONDI,” or the “second depôt camp,” will be found a valuable cattle-station or sheep-station, by the first squatter coming this way.

Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003

Jane had taken her mother's place; the two eldest sons were married, and settled in other parts of the colony; the third son lived with his younger sister at a sheep-station about twenty-five miles up the country; the youngest son, Thomas, a boy about fifteen years old, was still at home, and rode in daily to the collegiate school, returning in the evening.

Frank Oldfield Lost and Found T.P. Wilson

_Capital_ was required to get a sheep-station, and employment as an overseer, in consequence of the depression that existed in the markets

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 Various

A sheep-station is, probably, the most desolate place at which a man could be sent to pass his time.

Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. G. F. Davidson

Tanindie -- it's a sheep-station down on the Murray.

Frank Oldfield Lost and Found T.P. Wilson

These men live all the year round on salt beef and bread, the latter baked by themselves: they have no change either of diet, of employment, or of any thing else; for, be it known, a really good sheep-station in Australia yields nothing but grass and gum-trees, the soil being dry and poor.

Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. G. F. Davidson

His father had owned a sheep-station up in the unsettled districts.

Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land 1915

For after her father's death she married a man who had a small sheep-station and a hotel not forty miles from Carabobla, in New South Wales.

Stories by English Authors: The Orient (Selected by Scribners) Mary [Contributor] Beaumont 1900

My husband, John MacKenzie, was the manager and part proprietor of a large sheep-station in the Murchison district of Western Australia, and sister Maggie was his favourite sister.

The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 Various 1899