They therefore followed the banks of the Comnaroy rivulet, not doubting but that they would discover some stock — or sheep-station, of which there were a good many to the right of the Bathurst country. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The camp we left, namely, XXIX, or “MOONDI,” or the “second depôt camp,” will be found a valuable cattle-station or sheep-station, by the first squatter coming this way. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Tanindie -- it's a sheep-station down on the Murray. ❋ T.P. Wilson (N/A)
Jane had taken her mother's place; the two eldest sons were married, and settled in other parts of the colony; the third son lived with his younger sister at a sheep-station about twenty-five miles up the country; the youngest son, Thomas, a boy about fifteen years old, was still at home, and rode in daily to the collegiate school, returning in the evening. ❋ T.P. Wilson (N/A)
_Capital_ was required to get a sheep-station, and employment as an overseer, in consequence of the depression that existed in the markets ❋ Various (N/A)
A sheep-station is, probably, the most desolate place at which a man could be sent to pass his time. ❋ G. F. Davidson (N/A)
These men live all the year round on salt beef and bread, the latter baked by themselves: they have no change either of diet, of employment, or of any thing else; for, be it known, a really good sheep-station in Australia yields nothing but grass and gum-trees, the soil being dry and poor. ❋ G. F. Davidson (N/A)
His father had owned a sheep-station up in the unsettled districts. ❋ Unknown (1915)
For after her father's death she married a man who had a small sheep-station and a hotel not forty miles from Carabobla, in New South Wales. ❋ Mary [Contributor] Beaumont (1900)
My husband, John MacKenzie, was the manager and part proprietor of a large sheep-station in the Murchison district of Western Australia, and sister Maggie was his favourite sister. ❋ Various (1899)
The great cattle-shed on the one hand -- the sheep-station on the other, with its pens and hurdles -- the fine stone-built laboratory -- the fields stretching to the distance. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)
A mile or two higher up I passed a large sheep-station, but did not stay there. ❋ Samuel Butler (1868)
Hissarlik, where he spent the night and found it "all very like a first-class New Zealand sheep-station." ❋ Samuel Butler (1868)
On the 3rd we travelled twenty-five miles nearly west, passing a deserted sheep-station belonging to Mr. Litchfield about the middle of the day; the country was very poor, being open, bare, stony ground, with occasional low, flat-topped table-lands, covered very sparsely with salsolaceous vegetation. ❋ Ernest Giles (1866)
The first glance was not encouraging -- no sheep-station in Australia could seem more utterly desolate; but it improved on closer examination. ❋ Unknown (1846)
The camp we left, namely, XXIX, or "MOONDI," or the "second depôt camp," will be found a valuable cattle-station or sheep-station, by the first squatter coming this way. ❋ Thomas Mitchell (1823)
The blue devil, however, is merely a ` thistlelike plant 'and the tone is neutral in bluetongue, a ` lizard with a bright blue tongue,' also, perhaps from confusion with the sleepy lizard, ` a shed-hand on a sheep-station, 'and in blue flyer ` the female of the red kangaroo' and blue heeler ` a cattle dog, 'if not blue pointer, ` a large shark'. ❋ Unknown (1981)
a sheep-station near Glenorchy, one hundred miles inland. ❋ Desmond Byrne (N/A)
