stockrider

A stockrider, when he would appear in a gay shirt, tight white moleskins, cabbage-tree hat, flash riding-boots with glittering spurs.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

I must find out where he is living now, and if he's all right; I can't believe that he can be able to work as a stockrider after having been so terribly injured.

A Town Like Alice Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1950

I must find out where he is living now, and if he's all right; I can't believe that he can be able to work as a stockrider after having been so terribly injured.

A Town Like Alice Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1950

I was accompanied by a young man named Evans, a stockrider from one of the Ashburton stations, and on arriving at the Rakaia, being in a hurry, we foolishly tried to ford the river without a guide, as I had frequently done at other times.

Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 Robert B. Booth

"Missus no more stockrider"; but a letter waiting for us at the homestead made "bush" more than ever imperative: a letter, from the foreman of the telegraphic repairing line party, asking for a mob of killers, and fixing a date for its delivery to one "Happy Dick."

We of the Never-Never Jeannie Gunn 1915

A stockrider, when he would appear in a gay shirt, tight white moleskins, cabbage-tree hat, flash riding-boots with glittering spurs.

Confessions of a Beachcomber 1887

I've seen a stockrider, when all the horses were dead beat, trying to get fat cattle to take a river in flood, jump off and turn his horse loose into the stream.

Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields Rolf Boldrewood 1870

The sergeant was an old stockrider, and he one day so far forgot the rules of discipline as to indulge in a mutinous smile, and say:

The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned George Dunderdale 1862

I’ve seen a stockrider, when all the horses were dead beat, trying to get fat cattle to take a river in flood, jump off and turn his horse loose into the stream.

Robbery Under Arms 2004

“Yis,” said the boy, “me bin stockrider belonga Yenda.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003