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Content to Lie in the Sun 58: The stubborn will of a good bushman who was powerful enough to force our camel string through a night as black as the ‘inside of a dog’s guts’.at black as..., adj.
Content to Lie in the Sun 58: The stubborn will of a good bushman who was powerful enough to force our camel string through a night as black as the ‘inside of a dog’s guts’. Content to Lie in the Sun 43: A stockman who had been for a holiday to the ‘big smoke’.at Big Smoke, n.
Content to Lie in the Sun 36: A drink of tea and a piece of ‘brownie’ (bush cake).at brownie, n.1
Content to Lie in the Sun 68: Old bucks get the young gins … the law of the tribe.at buck, n.1
Content to Lie in the Sun 63: My worldly possessions were rolled in a ‘cigarette swag’.at cigarette swag (n.) under cigarette, n.
Content to Lie in the Sun 50: I would like to see one of the strait-laced scoffers of ‘Combos’ planted on an island full of these ‘girls’.at combo, n.1
Content to Lie in the Sun 46: ‘The downtrodden’s day will come soon, then you “gin-burglars” will have to respect the rights of the weak.’ [...] ‘Yes, and that day, both you and I, my friend, will have to pay more for the “girls”.’.at gin-burglar (n.) under gin, n.1
Content to Lie in the Sun 35: ’Twas here, on one cold night I witnessed my mate going for his life down a lignum ‘pad’, with an irate ‘gin shepherd’ (a white man who lives with a native woman) on his heels.at gin-shepherd (n.) under gin, n.1
Content to Lie in the Sun 54: I returned to camp in time to hear a discussion about great ‘gin-shepherds’ — a bush term for those people who guard their flock of ‘girls’ and so keep them away from their rivals, the ‘gin burglars’.at gin-shepherd (n.) under gin, n.1
Content to Lie in the Sun 32: Some Aborigines from the coastal lands had speared a stockman [...] and everywhere was talk of ‘cleaning up the jackies’.at jacky jacky, n.
Content to Lie in the Sun 30: So ‘dough boys,’ with a little golden syrup, was our staple food [...] ‘rib liners,’ as Dad called them.at liner, n.1
Content to Lie in the Sun 75: We stockmen were after the wanted heifers and ‘mickies’ (young bulls) fleeing for safety.at mickey, n.1
Content to Lie in the Sun 172: Just as the piccaninny dawn breaks.at piccaninny, adj.
Content to Lie in the Sun 203: When the ‘wet’ is over, I too will go on my walkabout.at wet, the, n.
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