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‘Mulga Bill’s Bicycle’ in Rio Grande’s Last Race (1904) 20: I’m good all round at everything, as everybody knows, / Although I’m not the one to talk — I hate a man that blows.at blow, v.1
‘Mulga Bill’s Bicycle’ in Rio Grande’s Last Race (1904) 20: I’m good all round at everything, as everybody knows, / Although I’m not the one to talk — I hate a man that blows. ‘The Wargeilah Handicap’ Rio Grande’s Last Race (1904) 114: The day wound up with booze and blow / And fights till all were well content.at blow, n.3
‘Hay and Hell and Booligal’ in Rio Grande’s Last Race (1904) 40: But down in Hay the shearers come / And fill themselves with fighting-rum, / And chase blue devils up the wall.at blue devils, n.
‘Driver Smith’ in Rio Grande’s Last Race (1904) 150: You have Buckley’s chance for to catch a man that was trained in Battery A.at Buckley’s, n.
‘Johnny Boer’ in Rio Grande’s Last Race (1904) 166: Next day at dawn — ‘What, ho! she bumps’ — from somewhere in the rear.at what ho, she bumps!, excl.
‘The City of Dreadful Thirst’ in Rio Grande’s Last Race (1904) 30: We all chucked-up our daily work and went upon the burst.at (go) on the burst under burst, n.2
‘A Walgett Episode’ in Rio Grande’s Last Race (1904) 42: There came a stranger – a ‘Cockatoo’ / The word means farmer, as all men know.at cockatoo, n.2
‘It’s Grand’ Rio Grande’s Last Race (1904) 123: It’s grand to be a ‘cockie’ / With wife and kids to keep, / And find an all-wise Providence / Has mustered all your sheep.at cocky, n.2
‘The Passing of Gundagai’ in Rio Grande’s Last Race (1904) 106: He smiled a sickly smile, and said / He’d ‘had a cut at “Gundagai”!’.at have a cut (at) (v.) under cut, n.1
‘Hay & Hell & Booligal’ Rio Grande’s Last Race (1904) 40: And fight the snaggers every day, / Until there is the deuce to pay.at deuce, the, phr.
‘A Walgett Episode’ Rio Grande’s Last Race (1904) 42: The iron law of the country town, /Which is — that the stranger has got to shout: /‘If he will not shout we must take him down.’.at take down, v.
‘Saltbush Bill’s Second Fight’ in Rio Grande’s Last Race (1904) 82: For they’d rush and clinch, it was Dublin Rules, and we drew no colour line.at Dublin rules (n.) under Dublin, n.
‘Out of Sight’ in Rio Grande’s Last Race (1904) 126: They said their horse could jump like fun.at like fun, adv.
‘Johnny Boer’ in Rio Grande’s Last Race (1904) 164: They reckon Fuzzy-wuzzy is the hottest fighter out.at fuzzy-wuzzy, n.1
‘Song of the Artesian Water ’ in Rio Grande’s Last Race (1904) 70: Now, our engine’s built in Glasgow by a very canny Scot, / And he marked it twenty horse-power, but he don’t know what is what: / When Canadian Bill is firing with the sun-dried gidgee logs, / She can equal thirty horses and a score or so of dogs.at horses, n.
‘Saltbush Bill’s Second Fight’ Rio Grande’s Last Race (1904) 82: ‘I’ll take the job,’ said the fighting man; ‘and hot as this cove appears, / He’ll stand no chance with a bloke like me.’.at hot, adj.
‘Saltbush Bill’s Second Fight’ in Rio Grande’s Last Race (1904) 86: ’Twas a clean take-in, and you’ll find it wise — ’twill save you a lot of pelf — / When next you’re hiring a fighting man, just fight him a round yourself.at take-in, n.
‘Saltbush Bill’s Second Fight’ Rio Grande’s Last Race (1904) 81: It’s a five-pound job if you belt him well – do anything short of kill.at job, n.2
‘Jock’ Rio Grande’s Last Race (1904) 175: Yes, it’s Jock — Scotch Jock. / He’s the fellow that can give or take a knock.at Jock, n.
‘Johnny Boer’ in Rio Grande’s Last Race (1904) 164: But when you’re fighting Johnny Boer you have to use your head.at johnny-, pfx
‘Anthony Considine’ Rio Grande’s Last Race (1904) 67: But a light-o’-love, if she sins with one, / She sinneth with ninety-nine.at light o’ love, n.
‘The City of Dreadful Thirst’ in Rio Grande’s Last Race (1904) 31: And, once outside the cloud of thirst, we felt as right as pie.at pie, n.
‘With French to Kimberley’ Rio Grande’s Last Race (1904) 161: But French looked once, and only once, and then he said, ‘Push on’.at push on (v.) under push, v.
‘The Passing of Gundagai’ in Rio Grande’s Last Race (1904) 105: On Sundays he controlled a ‘school’, / And played ‘two-up’ the livelong day.at school, n.
‘A Disqualified Jockey’s Story’ in Rio Grande’s Last Race (1904) 76: Smithy opened out / And let her up beside him on the rails, / And kept her there a-beltin’ her like smoke.at like smoke (adv.) under smoke, n.
‘Tar and Feathers’ in Rio Grande’s Last Race (1904) 121: But I reckon I’d better be quiet or / They’ll spiflicate me.at spiflicate, v.
‘Saltbush Bill’s Second Fight’ in Rio Grande’s Last Race (1904) 81: But, Boss, you’d better not fight with me, it wouldn’t be fair nor right; / I’m Stiffener Joe, from the Rocks Brigade, and I killed a man in a fight.at stiffener, n.2
‘Hard Luck’ in Rio Grande’s Last Race (1904) 87: I left the course, and by my side / There walked a ruined tout.at tout, n.1
‘The Road to Gundagai’ in Rio Grande’s Last Race (1904) 78: Then slowly, looking coyly back, / She went along the Sydney track.at track, n.2
‘Right in Front of the Army’ in Rio Grande’s Last Race (1904) 170: Correspondents and vets. in force, / Mounted foot and dismounted horse.at vet, n.1
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