A short time ago fifteen fine, red-gum logs 16 feet long were received from Sardis, Miss. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
They rode along for a few miles, keeping close to the river, which wound in and out, fringed with a thick belt of scrub, amongst which rose tall red-gum trees. ❋ Mary Grant Bruce (1918)
It was a picturesque little building, made of heavy red-gum slabs, with a bark roof; the windows were merely square holes cut in the slabs, fitted with heavy wooden covers that now hung open, giving a view of the interior. ❋ Unknown (1902)
But the ingenuity of Waddy was not exhausted: a few hundred feet of rope and a winch were borrowed from the Peep o 'Day; the rope was run round the schoolhouse, and the building was promptly hauled back into shape and fastened down with long timbers running from its sides to a convenient red-gum stump at the back. ❋ Edward Dyson (1898)
The patient was bathing the wound with a decoction of the leaves of the red-gum tree. ❋ Unknown (1896)
The Doatta is a species of this class, and the bark of its root is much relished by the natives, having a sweet and pleasing taste, as is also the trunk of the red-gum; and its leaves, washed in water, form an agreeable beverage. ❋ Edward Wilson Landor (1844)
A few scattered red-gum trees, of the size of a well-grown ash, gave a park-like appearance to our paddock, of which we immediately felt extremely proud, and had no doubt of being very comfortable in our new domain. ❋ Edward Wilson Landor (1844)
Just a 25-minute taxi ride from the Opera House in Sydney's central business district, the trail climbs high onto a series of sandstone headlands then down to pristine beaches framed by red-gum forest. ❋ Unknown (2011)
But Charlotte, she would not be satisfied, so Mr. Donavan was sent for; and luckily he happened to be just come in from Harley-street, so he stepped over directly, and as soon as ever he saw the child, he said just as we did, that it was nothing in the world but the red-gum, and then Charlotte was easy. ❋ Unknown (1811)
So I looked at it directly, and, "" Lord! my dear, "" says I, "" it is nothing in the world but the red-gum; "" and nurse said just the same. ❋ Unknown (1811)
The eruption so often seen on children in the cradle, and called by the nurses red-gum, and which is attended with some degree of fever, I suspect to be produced by too great warmth, and the contact of flannel next their tender skins, like the miliaria sudatoria; and like that requires cool air, cool clothes, and linen next their skin. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)
