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Life and Adventures of Martin Cash in Tasmania in 1843 choose

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[Aus] Launceston Advertiser 19 April in M. Cash Life and Adventures 177: The Criminal Court has been occupied the whole week in trying the bushrangers. They have all been found guilty.
at bushranger (n.) under bush, n.1
[Aus] M. Cash Life and Adventures 123: He’s the bravest man that you could choose from Sydney men or Cockatoos.
at cockatoo, n.2
[Aus] M. Cash Life and Adventures 59: As Stephens heard that ‘he held it’ (a slang phrase implying possession of money) and he would not ‘tip up,’ he resolved to take it out of him another way.
at hold, v.1
[Aus] M. Cash Life and Adventures 129: Jacky Jacky was [...] a quiet inoffensive man.
at jacky jacky, n.
[Aus] M. Cash Life and Adventures 43: Three armed bushrangers [...] took refuge in this hut, after sticking up a public-house at Cleveland.
at stick up, v.1
[Aus] M. Cash Life and Adventures 44: Jerusalem chain gang was then in charge of a worthy styled Wingy W-n.
at wingy, n.
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