Lexicographical Neighbors of Geebungs
Literary usage of Geebungs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales by Royal Society of New South Wales (1900)
"Ba'-bath-ool nam'-boo-ra-mm jil'-long ngun'-neen wur'-ran- gin-bar'-roo, geebung
lie-they beneath boomerang-at; ie, the geebungs beneath the boomerang. ..."
2. The Making of the Australian Commonwealth, 1889-1900: A Stage in the Growth by Bernhard Ringrose Wise (1913)
"... the ' geebungs,' whose belief in the predominance of Sydney was the very core
of his political being, he would have no parleying with the other Colonies ..."
3. Poets and Prose Writers of New South Wales by George Burnett Barton (1866)
"... plentifully as " geebungs " and " five-corners " were wont in the woods of
our boyhood. Mr. Halloran's domestic verses, as we believe it is the fashion ..."
4. The wealth and progress of New South Wales (1906)
"... the principal genera being the geebungs (Persoonia), (thirty-two species and
eight varieties), the Grevilleas (forty-seven species and eleven varieties) ..."
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