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[Aus] H. Lawson Over the Sliprails 52: He [...] watched my brush for a while, as if he was thinking, in a broody sort of way, of […] going in for house-painting.
at broody, adj.
[Aus] H. Lawson Over the Sliprails 44: The pup curled like a glob of mud on the sand in the moonlight.
at glob, n.
[Aus] H. Lawson ‘The Hero of Redclay’ Over the Sliprails 39: The banker, the storekeeper, [...] the postmaster, and his toady, the lightning squirter, were the scrub-aristocracy.
at lightning jerker (n.) under lightning, n.
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