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He is no ignorant back-block politician, but a refined, cultured gentleman, who knows the full strength of the British Empire; and, knowing it, he has defied it in all its might, and will follow his convictions to the bitter end, no matter what that end may be.

Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front A. G. Hales

Dowered with the poet's heart, he must yet have passed his 'wander-jaehre' amid the stern solitude of the Austral waste -- must have ridden the race in the back-block township, guided the reckless stock-horse adown the mountain spur, and followed the night-long moving, spectral-seeming herd 'in the droving days'.

The Man from Snowy River 1902

Charlie Gordon was spoiling for a chance to run Revoke, a back-block purchase, against the locals, and suggested it in an off-hand sort of way while reading the circular.

Outback Marriage, an : a story of Australian life 1902

He told us the usual string of back-block lies, and wound up by saying that out on the very fringe of settlement he had met an old acquaintance.

Three Elephant Power and Other Stories 1902

But how shrewdly he struck it, how straight from the shoulder, how simply, how honestly, there is perhaps no need to tell even those who have no previous knowledge of back-block Bishop Methuen and his manly ways.

Stingaree 1893

On his arrival at Glenranald, however, he found that substantial township shaking with laughter over the outlaw's latest and least discreditable exploit, at the back-block hamlet of Yallarook; and then it was that young Carrick first conceived an ambition to open his

Stingaree 1893

Darlinghurst Jail had never immured a more interesting prisoner than the back-block bandit who was tried and convicted under the strange style and title which he had made his own.

Stingaree 1893

Bargain I thought, especially if I lost my bags or needed a med evac from some amazing back-block village.

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Bargain I thought, especially if I lost my bags or needed a med evac from some amazing back-block village.

Stuff.co.nz - Stuff By GREER McDONALD 2010

"It's the song the bushranger forced her to sing at the back-block concert, and it made her fortune!

Stingaree 1893