Lexicographical Neighbors of Bluegums
Literary usage of Bluegums
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes edited by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1898)
"... and a couple of nightjars making merry in their melancholy way under the bluegums.
Our party is larger than it was in the morning. ..."
2. The kaleidoscopic Transvaal by Carl Jeppe (1906)
"A magnificent avenue of broad-crowned bluegums—now, alas ! cut down— marked the
main entrance to the town. And a deep peace dwelt over it always. ..."
3. Descriptive Handbook of the Cape Colony: Its Condition and Resources by John Noble (1875)
"... deodar of the Himalayas, the Camphor tree of Sumatra, the lofty bluegums of
Australia, and the towering and stately araucaria of Norfolk Island. ..."
4. An Anthology of Australian Verse by Bertram Stevens (1906)
"Grim, scarred bluegums ranged austerely, Lifting blackened columns each To the
large, fair fields of azure, Stretching ever out of reach. ..."
5. Glimpses of the Animate World, Or, Science and Literature of Natural History (1885)
"bluegums have been known to reach the height of sixty-five feet, with a trunk
more than three feet and a half in circumference, in seven years. ..."
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