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[Aus] (ref. to 1900s) R. Ward Aus. Legend 207: The influence enjoyed by ‘The Bushman’s Bible’ [...] may be gained from the sales figures.
at bushman’s bible (n.) under bushman’s..., n.
[Aus] R. Ward Aus. Legend 4: An occasional unknown workman [...] by superior industry, temperance, or skill in cattle-duffing, became a ‘shepherd king’.
at cattle-duffing, n.
[Aus] R. Ward Aus. Legend 54: Probably more and better food and an active, out-door life did make the average ‘Cornstalk’ taller and more slender than the average Briton.
at cornstalk, n.
[Aus] R. Ward Aus. Legend 98: Yes, the Old Bloke makes a good job of them [i.e. sunsets] up this way.
at old man, n.
[Aus] R. Ward Aus. Legend 5: Dad and Dave were not pastoral workers, bushmen proper, but poor selectors, ‘stringybark cockatoos’, who were sneered at.
at stringybark cockatoo (n.) under stringybark, adj.
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