Bushed

But they soon realised that they were "bushed" -- a term familiar enough to those who are acquainted with the story of Australian inland exploration. ❋ Ernest Scott (1903)

We were "bushed" -- had no idea which way to turn. ❋ Unknown (1892)

There was a time when I would have projected onto Rose motives of institutional fear that made him pretend like he was auditioning for Fox News, but I'm wondering if he was just plain too "bushed" to perform -- even when handed the hottest interviewee of the day. ❋ Michael Evans (2005)

Bob, and not to have done it after all -- only to die "bushed"! ❋ Eleanor Luisa Haverfield (N/A)

But the only result of their labours was that they nearly got "bushed" themselves, and at last the fall of night made the absurdity of further search clear to them. ❋ Various (N/A)

He went hunting cattle, and got himself "bushed," or marooned -- that is, lost -- and had a narrow escape from dying in the woods. ❋ John Masefield (1922)

The safe ways were "bushed" by a benevolent Government, and night and day the gay tinkle of the sleigh-bells sounded on it. ❋ Unknown (1915)

The hum was like the far singing of a child-choir, and the dreamings it started then were altogether too big for the memory mechanism of a little boy's head; but the vastness and wonder of those dreamings left a kind of bushed beauty far back in his mind. ❋ Will Levington Comfort (1905)

And the sinking scattered feeling of the "bushed" clutched at her again. ❋ John Galsworthy (1900)

Shane said, "Remember the time I 'bushed' you over in Dunlap's meadow?" ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)

This was managed by having the true keel bored in some half a dozen places along its length, and the holes "bushed" with copper. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)

I believe that but for Warri I should have been "bushed"; my head was muddled, and the stars not too clear. ❋ David Wynford Carnegie (1885)

It appears that the poor fellow failed to follow back the outgoing tracks, got lost in the night, became hopelessly "bushed," and perished, alone in the desert. ❋ David Wynford Carnegie (1885)

In this spirit he went on as he grew stronger; and as for some distance inland in the triangle of miles, two of whose sides were the greater river and its tributary, they had formed so many faint trails in their hunting and fruit-seeking expeditions, the chances of being "bushed," as the Australians call it, grew fewer, plenty of collecting expeditions were made, at first in company with Shaddy and Rob, afterwards alone. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

Nature plays strange pranks then with one's mental faculties, even as she does with a traveller in some dense fog, or the unfortunate who finds himself "bushed," or lost in the primeval forest, far from help and with the balance of his mind upset. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

After the tape and hair bands were cut off the dog, the officer said, Rex was "bushed" and couldn't move for a long time. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Otherwise, I'm actually to 'bushed' to lable anything. ❋ Unknown (2009)

a man who, between the present site of the Roman Catholic Cathedral and the present site of the Town Hall, had been "bushed" for a whole day and lost in the virgin forest. ❋ David Christie Murray (N/A)