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Illus. Sydney News 28 Oct. 234/3: Some of the police [...] were now ordered to fall back on the hotel for its protection if necessary. The Joe!, Joe! soon began and some boys threw stones at the windows [AND].at joe, n.1
Illus. Sydney News 28 Oct. 234/3: Some of the police [...] were now ordered to fall back on the hotel for its protection if necessary. The Joe!, Joe! soon began and some boys threw stones at the windows [AND]. Illus. Sydney News 17 Feb. 3/3: The word ‘plunger,’ to represent a gentleman of fast habits, is in common use; ‘going the pace,’ and ‘taking a cropper,’ are gradually being admitted in small talk.at plunger, n.
Illus. Sydney News 23 Dec. 10/2: Everyone flocks into the up-country towns to ‘knock down’ his cheque and have a jollification.at knock down, v.
Illus. Sydney News 21 Jan. n.p.: ‘The Digger.’ The ne’er-do-wells... are... the first to rush to a new field, scrape it of its surface gold and then too lazy to seek further by deep sinking denounce the rush as a shicer [F&H].at shicer, n.
Illus. Sydney News 27 June 6/1: As the precautions taken against recognition on this occasion, were much greater than those usually adopted by ‘Knights of the Road’, it is scarcely possible that even if arrested the evidence given will be sufficient to insure conviction [AND].at knight of the road, n.
Illus. Sydney News 26 JAn. 11/2: ‘Did you ever! Well I don’t want him - wouldn’t touch him with a pair of tongsbarge’.at wouldn’t touch it with a pair of tongs under touch, v.1
Illus. Sydney News 26 May 3/1: I expect they will, to use an Americanism, ‘astonish us a few’ in both respects.at few, a, adv.
Illus. Sydney News 26 May 3/2: He has given the whole miserable farce miscalled ‘Government’ the ‘go-by’.at give someone/something the go-by (v.) under go-by, n.
Illus. Sydney News 26 May 3/2: McElhone won’t be ignored [...] but will continue to give ‘facers’ to squatters in particular.at facer, n.2
Illus. Sydney News 26 May 3/1: It is some time since the good ship ‘N. Boynton’, with the pioneer load of ‘jimmygrants’, left her moorings in [...] the United States for our shores.at jimmy grant, n.
Illus. Sydney News 26 May 3/3: I thought there was a screw loose somewhere when Mr Buchanan set the whole city in a ferment about the colour of hamlet’s hair.at a screw loose under screw, n.1
Illus. Sydney News 26 May 3/2: ‘Regulations’ [...] makes but little difference to ‘Mac’, so long as it gives him the opportunity of ‘slating’ them.at slate, v.1
Illus. Sydney News 26 May 3/2: Yankee workmen of all kinds and degrees ‘lick all white men into immortal smash’.at smash, n.1
Illus. Sydney News 2 Oct. 10/2: The long-legged Lord Burleigh, who strode over the ground like a giraffe [...] amidst shrieks of cheering from the local yokels.at local yokel, n.
Illus. Sydney News Dec. 33/3: Sam the Billabonger, / Whose noted points were ribaldry and beer [AND].at billabonger, n.
Illus. Sydney News 7 Jan. 24: The body that was found was not planted in the garden, but was dressed in a wooden overcoat and carried to Greenwood.at wooden overcoat (n.) under wooden, adj.
Illus. Sydney News 3 Oct. 32/1: A Darling Whaler is not a man who goes down to the sea in ships [...] or any other resource of civilization in the direction of water locomotion.at Murrumbidgee whaler (n.) under Murrumbidgee, n.
Illus. Sydney News 15 Oct. 14/1: He finishes under the whip like a working bullock, and can have no possible chance of winning the Melbourne Cup.at like a working bullock (adj.) under working bullock, n.
Illus. Sydney News 11 Mar. 17: She, a light, quick child of 5, had been invaluable to him as a backstop.at backstop (n.) under back, adj.2
Illus. Sydney News 11 Mar. 17: She, a light, quick child of 5, had been invaluabl to him as a backstop.at backstop, n.
Illus. Sydney News 23 Dec. 12/1: Dressed in a seedy grey tweed, ’lastic sided boots, and a brown hard-hitter hat.at hard-hitter, n.
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