Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages, with Those Aboriginal-Australian and Maori Words which Have Become Incorporated in the Language and the Commoner Scientific Words that Have Had Their Origin in AustralasiaMacmillan, 1898 - 525 Seiten |
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A. B. Paterson A. C. Grant aboriginal aboriginal name aboriginal word Acacia animal Antipodes Argus Australasia Australia Felix bark Benth Birds of Australia Botany bush called cattle colonists colony colour common Cunn Diemen's Land E. J. Wakefield E. W. Hornung Eucalyptus feet fish flowers forest fruit genus Gould grass ground Günth Hook horse Howitt Ibid Island J. E. Tenison-Woods J. H. Maiden kangaroo known larrikin Lath Leichhardt Linn Maori name Maori word marsupial Melbourne Myrtacea N.O. Myrtacea name given name is applied Native Plants North Island opossum Overland Expe Port Phillip Queensland quotation R. M. Praed R.Br resemblance River Rolf Boldrewood scientific name scrub settlers sheep shrub slang South Australia South Wales squatters Sydney Tasmania Tea-tree term timber tion tralia Van Diemen's Land Victoria Voyage Wallaby Wattle Western Australia wild wood Zealand Zealand Institute
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Seite 8 - I will go on the slightest errand now to the Antipodes that you can devise to send me on. I will fetch you a tooth-picker now from the farthest inch of Asia ; bring you the length of Préster John's foot ; fetch you a hair of the great
Seite 361 - the Prologue (erroneously imputed to a convict Barrington, but believed to have been written by an officer) declared 'True patriots we, for be it understood We left our country for our country's good."
Seite 19 - Farewell, Australia ! You are a rising child, and doubtless some day will reign a great princess in the South ; but you are too great and ambitious for affection, yet not great enough for respect. I leave your shores without sorrow or regret.'
Seite 19 - Had I permitted myself any innovation upon the original term, it would have been to convert it into Australia ; as being more agreeable to the ear, and an assimilation to the names of the other great portions of the earth.
Seite 253 - The kangaroos—your Aborigines —do they keep their primitive simplicity un-Europe-tainted, with those little short fore puds, looking like a lesson framed by nature to the pickpocket ! Marry, for diving into fobs they are rather lamely provided
Seite 159 - 'Tree-ferns thrive luxuriantly in Van Diemen's Land (lat. 45°), and I measured one trunk no less than six feet in circumference. An arborescent fern was found by Forster in New Zealand in 46°, where orchideous plants are parasitical on the trees. In the Auckland Islands, ferns, according to Dr.
Seite 381 - Under its throat hang two little tufts of curled snow-white feathers, called its poies, which being the Otaheitean word for ear-rings occasioned our giving that name to the bird, which is not more remarkable for the beauty of its plumage than for the sweetness of its note.
Seite 314 - So far as my skill in interpreting an osseous fragment may be credited, I am willing to risk the reputation for it, on the statement that there has existed, if there does not now exist, in New Zealand a Struthious bird, nearly, if not quite equal in size to the Ostrich."]
Seite 332 - It seems to give us no nutriment. . . . Starvation on nardoo is by no means very unpleasant, but for the weakness one feels and the utter inability to move oneself, for, as far as appetite is concerned, it gives me the greatest satisfaction.
Seite 114 - while we were there. These men as well as those of the tribe belonging to King George's Sound, being tempted by the offer of some tubs of rice and sugar were persuaded to hold a ' corrobery ' or great dancing party.