The Kangaroo Hunters, Or, Adventures in the BushG. Routledge, 1859 - 444 pages |
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... appeared in sight , and distinguishing their signals , made up to them . It was bound to Melbourne , which was now within a few days ' sail , and , with as much kindness as difficulty , the stranger succeeded in taking the disabled ...
... appeared in sight , and distinguishing their signals , made up to them . It was bound to Melbourne , which was now within a few days ' sail , and , with as much kindness as difficulty , the stranger succeeded in taking the disabled ...
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... appearance ; he had discarded his convict's habit , and had expended the earnest - money received from Mr. Deverell in an old suit of black clothes , and a very bad English hat , which he had placed on his head in a jaunty style ...
... appearance ; he had discarded his convict's habit , and had expended the earnest - money received from Mr. Deverell in an old suit of black clothes , and a very bad English hat , which he had placed on his head in a jaunty style ...
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... appearance of neglect and disorder in the Golden Fairy that was repugnant to the taste of the Mayburns , after being accustomed to the trim , orderly arrangements of the Amoor ; Edward Deverell pointed out to Captain Markham several ...
... appearance of neglect and disorder in the Golden Fairy that was repugnant to the taste of the Mayburns , after being accustomed to the trim , orderly arrangements of the Amoor ; Edward Deverell pointed out to Captain Markham several ...
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... appeared , he had contrived to bring a box about his person ; still before night they had approached within a mile of a rocky island . Then the sudden darkness of a tropical region surprised them , and compelled them to wait for day ...
... appeared , he had contrived to bring a box about his person ; still before night they had approached within a mile of a rocky island . Then the sudden darkness of a tropical region surprised them , and compelled them to wait for day ...
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... appeared as if an impenetrable barricade was formed by nature to forbid approach to the interior . A niche formed by the up - rooting of some aged tree , of which few remnants remained , offered a shady retreat , much more attractive ...
... appeared as if an impenetrable barricade was formed by nature to forbid approach to the interior . A niche formed by the up - rooting of some aged tree , of which few remnants remained , offered a shady retreat , much more attractive ...
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Page 100 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Page 114 - His steps are not upon thy paths, - thy fields Are not a spoil for him, - thou dost arise And shake him from thee; the vile strength he wields For earth's destruction thou dost all despise, Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies, And send'st him, shivering in thy playful spray And howling, to his Gods, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth: - there let him lay.
Page 21 - Up and down ! up and down ! From the base of the wave to the billow's crown, And amidst the flashing and feathery foam, The stormy petrel finds a home. A home ! if such a place may be For her who lives on the wide, wide sea...
Page 286 - O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height.
Page 22 - It ate the food it ne'er had eat, And round and round it flew. The ice did split with a thunder-fit; The helmsman steered us through! And a good south wind sprung up behind; The Albatross did follow, And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariners
Page 217 - His pinion, and with short uneasy sweeps Circles above his eyry, with loud screams Chiding his mate back to her nest; but she Lies dying, with the arrow in her side, In some far stony gorge out of his ken, A heap of fluttering feathers — never more Shall the lake glass her, flying over it...
Page 139 - And mounts in spray the skies, and thence again Returns in an unceasing shower, which round, With its unemptied cloud of gentle rain, Is an eternal April to the ground, Making it all one emerald : how profound The gulf! and how the giant element From rock to rock leaps with delirious bound, Crushing the cliffs, which, downward worn and rent With his fierce footsteps, yield in chasms a fearful vent...
Page 217 - Far off; — anon her mate comes winging back From hunting, and a great way off descries His huddling young left sole; at that, he checks His pinion, and with short uneasy sweeps Circles above his eyry, with loud screams...
Page 234 - Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD.
Page 345 - To look on the creation with an eye of interest and feeling must be ever acceptable to the Creator. To trace out the several properties of his works, and to study with diligence and humility their laws, their uses and operations, is an employment worthy the immortal mind of man ; since it is one of those studies which we may reasonably hope will survive beyond tho grave—when we shall no longer see through a " glass darkly," what wonders of creation spiritual as well as material, may unfold themselves...