THE STOCKMAN’S LAST BED MUSTERING SONG THE AUSTRALIAN STOCKMAN THE SHEPHERD THE OVERLANDER A THOUSAND MILES AWAY THE FREEHOLD ON THE PLAIN THE WALLABY BRIGADE MY RELIGION BOURKE’S DREAM BILLY BARLOW IN AUSTRALIA INTRODUCTION “All human beings not utterly savage long for some information about past times, and are delighted by narratives which present pictures to the eye of the mind.

It was like the skeleton of some giant creature of a prehistoric age, incredibly savage even in its stark, unlovely death.

"They've gone before you, or they'll soon follow," said a savage fiercely, as he raised her in his powerful arms and hurled her overboard.

He looked strangely savage and disheveled, but Barbara went to him and her eyes shone.

You can see this small, middle-aged, early Victorian spinster, exiled for ever from the sunshine of the town she loved, dragging out her sad, fastidious life in a cold and comparatively savage country that she unspeakably disliked.

But it is well known that the walrus, though not in the least a malignant animal, if allowed to display its remarkably plain person and blundering performances at ease in any element it chooses, becomes desperately savage and musters alarming auxiliaries when attacked or hurt.

I knew he was expecting me to help him out, but I felt doggedly savage and wouldn't.

Continuing our voyage, we came to a certain island about fifteen leagues from the coast, which we agreed to visit, that we might see if it were inhabited; and we accordingly found it possessed by a race of exceedingly savage people, who were notwithstanding extremely simple and very courteous.

"It's time," said Ephraim Savage grimly.

It is not only the savage heathen who run under Juggernaut every day.

A great bull head; undershot jaw, square and lengthy and terrible; vicious yellow gleaming eyes; cropped ears; and an expression incomparably savage.

His habits were now so inveterately savage that he could not tolerate civilization.

Then their manners are so atrociously savage.

Why the sachem had taken such an interest in the unfortunate man I could not make out; most likely the savages themselves were ignorant on that point.

I guessed the cause of this illness, though not a sign of it came near her, and as soon as my trembling knees could bear me, I again set outalways Westwardenjoying now a certain luxury in travelling compared with that Turkish difficulty, for here were no twisted metals, more and better engines, in the cities as many good petrol motors as I chose, and Nature markedly less savage.

The Appalachians were in the barbarous, rather than in the merely savage state.

And Azuma-zi was practically a savage still; the veneer of civilisation lay no deeper than his slop suit, his bruises, and the coal grime on his face and hands.

Pot-luck, as it is called, in Scotlandwhen the man's wife is in the sulks, the wife's man proportionably savage, the children blear-eyed from the recent blubber in the nurserythe governess afraid to lift her eyes from her platethe aunt sourer than the vinegar cruetand wealas!

His face was red and he looked rather ridiculously savage.

Though these words by chance were spoken As an omen I 'll admit them: Since Carpophorus (who in Rome Was the most renowned, most gifted Master in all science), now Flying from the emperor's lictors, Through suspect of being a Christian, In lone deserts wild and dismal Lives a saintly savage life, He will give to all my wishes The solution of these doubts:

Sternly the savage did her answer mark, Her glowing eye-balls glittering in the dark, And said but this: Since lucre was your trade, Succeeding times such dreadful gaps have made, 'Tis dangerous climbing: to your sons and you I leave the ladder, and its omen too.

And it is precisely because savages are pitiless that they are stillmerely savages.

Nevertheless there was are air of manly dignity about him which assured me that he was not likely to be unnecessarily savage.

Benavides, though unquestionably a ferocious savage, was, nevertheless, a man of resource, full of activity, and of considerable energy of character.

About the fourth hour after noon, the time of the Mozlem's dinner, the Sultan Akhmet Khan was unusually savage and gloomy.