Behind them Tom, the garden rouseabout, finished filling the big water truck from the bore-drain pump, then started the engine. ❋ McCullough, Colleen (1977)
Where the two stockmen and Tom, the garden rouseabout, stayed no one knew, but Mrs. Smith, Minnie and Cat had friends in Gilly who put them up. ❋ McCullough, Colleen (1977)
Near the mausoleum he noticed two new graves, old Tom, the garden rouseabout, and the wife of one of the stockmen, who had been on the payroll since 1946. ❋ McCullough, Colleen (1977)
So they had dropped in to see old George, the rouseabout, and have a yarn with him, or, if there were no signs of the weather clearing, to consider the question of work in the wool-shed. ❋ Unknown (1930)
I think John the Baptist was a rouseabout, don't you? ❋ M. Leonora Eyles (1924)
Joe Slocombe, the man who acted as groom and rouseabout, was waiting for me at the entrance gate. ❋ Miles Franklin (1916)
From the rouseabout we found that Eversofar and Bingong were also gone. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)
Eversofar, being weak and old, gave in, and Billy became a little delirious -- he has denied it, but Bingong says it is so; yet he pulled himself together as became the leader of an expedition, and did what he could for Eversofar until the rouseabout came with food and water. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)
Old Eversofar, being weak and old, gave in, and Billy became a little delirious -- he has denied it, but Bingong says it is so; yet he pulled himself together as became the leader of an expedition, and did what he could for Eversofar until the rouseabout came with food and water. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)
At daybreak, Marshall and I and the rouseabout started on good horses, each going at different angles, but agreeing to meet at the Debil debil Waterhole, and to wait there for each other. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)
We all started back again at different angles, our final rendezvous being arranged for the station homestead, the rouseabout taking a direct line, and making for the Little Black Billabong on the way. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)
The next morning, at breakfast-time, a rouseabout brought us a piece of paper which had been nailed to the sandal-tree. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)
At daybreak, Marshall and I and the rouseabout started on good horses, each going at different angles, but agreeing to meet at the Debil debil ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)
We waited twelve hours, and were about to go, leaving a mark behind us to show we had been there, when we saw the rouseabout and his exhausted horse coming slowly through the bluebush to us. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)
