Austral English Part 211
1890. R. A. F. Murray, `Reports and Statistics of the Mining Department [of Victoria] for the Quarter ending 31st December':
"The quartz here is very white and crystalline, with ferruginous, clayey joints, and--from a miner's point of view--of most unpromising or `hungry' appearance."
. a machine for crushing quartz, and so extracting gold.
1890. `The Argus,' July 26, p. 4, col. 4:
"There was a row [noise] like a quartz-battery."
. blade of a miner's knife used for picking lumps of gold out of the stone.
1891. `The Argus,' Dec. 19, p. 4, col. 2:
"They had slashed open his loins with a quartz-blade knife."
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1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Miner's Right,' c. x.x.xix. p. 341:
"The dull reverberating clash of the quartz-crushing batteries."
. a non-alluvial goldfield.
1890. `The Argus,' June 16, p. 6, col. 1:
"Our princ.i.p.al quartz-field."
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See Quartz.
1880. G. Sutherland, `Tales of Goldfields,' p. 32:
"He chose the piece which the New North Clunes now occupy for quartz-mining; but the quartz-lodes were very difficult to follow."
, as distinguished from one digging in alluvial. See above.
, verb. (2) A place where there is gold mixed with quartz.
1861. Mrs. Meredith, `Over the Straits,' c. iv. p. 133:
"You'd best go to a quartz-reefin'. I've been surfacing this good while; but quartz-reefin's the payinest game, now."
1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Miner's Right,' c. xxix. p. 263:
"[He] had located himself in a quartz-reefing district."
. a colony named after the Queen, on the occasion of its separation from New South Wales, in 1859. Dr. J. D. Lang wanted to call it "Cooksland," and published a book under that t.i.tle in 1847. Before separation it was known as "the Moreton Bay District."
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1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p. 40:
"`Queensland Nut.' This tree bears an edible nut of excellent flavour, relished both by Aborigines and Europeans. As it forms a nutritious article of food to the former, timber-getters are not permitted to fell the trees. It is well worth extensive cultivation, for the nuts are always eagerly bought."
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Not so strongly aromatic as the true nutmeg.
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, chewed by the aborigines, as boys chew English Sorrel.
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, all which see.
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(q.v.).
(q.v.), but not now in use.
1770. J. Banks, `Journal,' Aug. 26 (edition Hooker, 1896), p. 301:
"Another animal was called by the natives je-quoll; it is about the size of, and something like, a pole-cat, of a light brown, spotted with white on the back, and white under the belly... . I took only one individual."
Ibid. p. 323:
"They very often use the article ge, which seems to answer to our English a, as ge gurka--a rope."
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"Gurka--a rope." /?/