woodheap

Never before, and likely never again, would indigenes be invited in from the woodheap to sit at the main table as they did during those Keating years.

Rudd's previous record in indigenous affairs Bill Kerr 2008

Never before, and likely never again, would indigenes be invited in from the woodheap to sit at the main table as they did during those Keating years.

Archive 2008-02-01 Bill Kerr 2008

On additional pay, the three marines and three sailors set to with a will to clear enough ground for a small wooden building and a woodheap of white oak, the same local tree which fueled both the salt house and the lime kiln because it burned to scant ash.

Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

On additional pay, the three marines and three sailors set to with a will to clear enough ground for a small wooden building and a woodheap of white oak, the same local tree which fueled both the salt house and the lime kiln because it burned to scant ash.

Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

When everyone thought she was in bed, Meggie squeezed out of her bedroom window and sneaked down to the woodheap.

The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977

Wild as the birds in the sun-drenched trees, their children skulked shyly behind the sulky wheels or scuttled for the protection of the woodheap while their parents yarned over cups of tea, swapped tall stories and books, promised to pass on vague messages to Hoopiron Collins or Brumby Waters, and told the fantastic tale of the Pommy jackaroo on Gnarlunga.

The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977

Bob had to touch up the exterior paintwork where it was necessary, Jack and Hughie dealt with the woodheap, outbuildings and milking, Stuart tended the vegetables; play compared to the horrors of school.

The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977

The boys were clustered on the back veranda playing with a frog, except for Frank; Padraic knew where he was, because he could hear the steady clocking of an axe from the direction of the woodheap.

The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977

Fee and Meggie would strew it with sawdust Stuart carefully collected from the woodheap, sprinkle the sawdust with precious particles of water and sweep the damp, pungent-fragrant mess away out of doors, down off the veranda onto the vegetable garden, there to decompose itself to humus.

The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977

A minute later they heard the axe clunking dully from the woodheap; Frank was attacking the hardwood logs Paddy had brought home to store for the slow-burning fires of winter.

The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977