Blackboy

| Page 59: "blackboy" changed to "black boy" (Knowing I had no black | ❋ Unknown (1873)

Grainger, who had the most implicit faith in the judgment of his blackboy, now began to fear that the horses, instead of making for the scrub, had gone towards the mountains, where it would perhaps be most difficult to get them. ❋ Louis Becke (1884)

The blackboy had stripped himself of every article of clothing, except the remnants of his shirt, which he had tied round his loins; over it was strapped his leather belt with its cartridge pouch. ❋ Louis Becke (1884)

Both he and Scott had brought their bridles with them, and the blackboy, they knew, had his as well, and they were hoping that at any moment they might meet him driving the horses back to the camp. ❋ Louis Becke (1884)

Never for one instant did Grainger think of questioning the judgment of his tried and trusted blackboy, when, as they came to the stream, he jumped off his horse and motioned to his master to do the same. ❋ Louis Becke (1884)

The first to which Mr. Drummond alludes is the blackboy, of which there are several varieties. ❋ Edward Wilson Landor (1844)

The natives are particularly fond of the blackboy, whilst its sound old flower-stalks furnish them with the means of obtaining a light by friction. ❋ Edward Wilson Landor (1844)

The glaucus-leaved York blackboy is, however, the most important, and grows thirty feet in height without ❋ Edward Wilson Landor (1844)

Tue, 02/02/2010 - 13: 20 - Geraldo A blackboy is like a carboy only it's full of black tar heroin. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Among the more interesting of these are blackboy, also called grass-tree, a black-boled liliaceous tree with a spearlike flowerstalk and reedlike leaves resembling fuzzy hair or a grass skirt (but in New Zealand the same word refers to a type of peach), and black swan, a descriptive term. ❋ Unknown (1981)

_ for Jacky, and fancied she heard an answering cry from the blackboy, a long distance away. ❋ Louis Becke (1884)

As day by day the quietude deepened, the parrots and pheasants and squatter pigeons flew in and about the Leichhardt trees at the foot of the bluff, and wild duck at dusk came splashing into the battery dam, for there was now no one who cared to shoot them; the merry-faced, rollicking, horse-racing young bank manager and his baying pack of gaunt kangaroo dogs had vanished with the rest; and then came the day when but eight men remained -- seven being old hands, and the eighth a stranger, who, with a blackboy, had arrived the previous evening. ❋ Louis Becke (1884)

The men having now completed their task the women came with bundles of blackboy tops which they had gathered, and laid these down on the central heap so as to give it a green and pleasing appearance; they placed neither meerro nor spear on the grave, but whilst they were filling in the earth old Weeban and another native sat on their hams at the head of it, facing the one to the north, and the other to the south, their foreheads leaning on their clasped hands, which rested on one end of a meerro whilst the other end was placed on the ground. ❋ George Grey (1855)

a little for the party, obtained by digging, however, they were relieved by the appearance of a blackboy with rations, who reported that some of the horses had not been found when he left the camp. ❋ Frank Jardine (1880)

"i see you blackboy bent toward destruction watching for death with tight eyes" ❋ Unknown (2009)