Lexicographical Neighbors of Bushies
Literary usage of Bushies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Australia at the Front: A Colonial View of the Boer War by Frank Wilkinson (1901)
"... CHAPTER XXVI THE "bushies " I HAVE known the Australian Bushman for years—as
he exists on his native heath. He is not a " Bushranger" in our sense of ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1878)
"Subsequently he had undergone much mental worry about his bushies* matters.
Some eight months or so before coming to me he began to notice a dull, ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1855)
"... the northern hosts, cleaving, repell- in wooden legs, and have beguiled would
lead tho .line of sparkling helmets and dark bushies against lived through ..."
4. Report by American Temperance Society (1832)
"Do they not tend by their whole influence to render the bushies>! respectable,
to perpetuate it, and permanently to produce such results ? results none the ..."
5. The Pygmies by Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau (1894)
"But he does not recognise that " the bushies'' are only hordes of dispersed
Hottentots who have adopted the mode of life of the Bushmen. ..."
6. "Over There" with the Australians by R. Hugh Knyvett (1918)
"On this occasion we took over from the Grenadier Guards, which numbers among its
officers many of the English nobility. We "bushies" and ..."
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