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Definition of Swagmen
1. swagman [n] - See also: swagman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swagmen
Literary usage of Swagmen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Place for a Village by Brian Spittle (2006)
"She coped with the regular swagmen who called with firm kindness. swagmen walked
for countless miles through the countryside during the depression. ..."
2. State Experiments in Australia & New Zealand by William Pember Reeves (1902)
"A few of these wandering swagmen are chronic vagabonds who tramp along, not
dejectedly, ... Most of the swagmen, however, are genuinely anxious for work, ..."
3. Adrift in New Zealand by Ernest Way Elkington (1906)
"This was for their lunch, which swagmen have in the open, ... At about ten o'clock
the swagmen rolled up their swags and left the station, Happy Jack and I ..."
4. Adrift in New Zealand by Ernest Way Elkington (1906)
"... as I have myself been on a station where, one night, there have been no less
than thirty swagmen to be fed and lodged; and this, I have been told, ..."
5. Adrift in New Zealand by Ernest Way Elkington (1906)
"... as I have myself been on a station where, one night, there have been no less
than thirty swagmen to be fed and lodged ; and this, I have been told, ..."
6. An Anthology of Australian Verse by Bertram Stevens (1906)
"He begged his way on the parched Paroo and the Warrego tracks once more, And
lived like a dog, as the swagmen do, till the Western stations shore; ..."
7. British Farmer's Magazine (1869)
"... found to consist of idlers and swagmen. It has oft« «и1 to me that it is an
unspeakable misfortune to им; » £ working men that this fine colony presents ..."
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