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Definition of Brumbies
1. brumby [n] - See also: brumby
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brumbies
Literary usage of Brumbies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cassell's Picturesque Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris (1890)
"The relentless exterminator of brumbies must creep warily on his prey, ...
There are men who might count by the thousand the brumbies they have thus shot. ..."
2. Cassell's Picturesque Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris (1888)
"At present something about the methods of procuring brumbies, or " running them
in," as it is called, must be said. It is not my purpose in these few words ..."
3. Australian Life in Town and Country by Ernest Charles Buley (1905)
"The 'brumbies,' as the wild horses are called, are usually to be found in the
hilly districts, and their existence on a run in any number is soon made ..."
4. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"3 : " Passing through a belt o we saw, on reaching its edge, horses grazing on
the plains These our guide pronounce 'brumbies,' the bush nai [Queensland] ..."
5. The Bulletin Story Book: A Selection of Stories and Literary Sketches from by Bulletin (Sydney, Alfred George Stephens (1901)
"But when he heard the rush of the brumbies' feet in the scrub, ... Nearly every
Sunday we were after the brumbies, until they got as lean as greyhounds and ..."
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