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单词 billabong
例句 billabong
By five o'clock they reach a small billabong. Extract: The Whales by Evie Wyld 2010-09-06T13:47:00Z
The billabong is black from the tea trees that line the bank and when she flicks her legs to the surface she's a pale fish. Extract: The Whales by Evie Wyld 2010-09-06T13:47:00Z
Recreation in the summer shrinks to barbecues, swimming in the billabong, and drinking stubbies, or bottles of beer, on Big Red under the stars. How Does an Australian Town of 100 Attract Tourists? A Music Festival and Camel Pie 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z
A day after the attack two weeks ago, police rangers shot dead a three-metre-long reptile in the same waterhole - or billabong - where the girl went missing. Australia crocodile death feared 2012-12-01T10:07:23Z
This part of the Northern Territory can receive many feet of rain in the monsoon season, from December to March, filling rivers, billabongs and great floodplains that nourish vast bird and fish populations. Remarkable Creatures: The Call of the Thylacine: Protect the Wild 2011-08-01T22:03:46Z
Mounting our horses we followed our guide through the scrub for a distance of perhaps a mile and a half until we came to a small billabong or backwater of the main river. A Crime of the Under-seas 2011-05-17T02:00:16.540Z
The Bunyip is a mythical beast derived from aboriginal lore, and said to inhabit billabongs, rivers etc. Readers' 50 strangest newspaper names 2011-02-08T11:05:34Z
On returning after dark we passed a billabong, from which a very strong stench, as if from decomposed vegetable matter, arose. Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869
In a western billabong, with a stretch of plain around, a dirty waterhole beside me, I sat and read the WORKER. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel
The defunct was a young Union labourer, about twenty-five, who had been drowned the previous day while trying to swim some horses across a billabong of the Darling. While the Billy Boils
We were just poking up the bank in the slack water, a few hundred yards below the billabong, when Jake said, `Why, there's a horse or something in the river.' Children of the Bush
The creek, below its confluence with the Wolf, is continually losing its waters, throwing off arms and billabongs, especially to the west, which form swamps, clay-pans, and lagoons. Spinifex and Sand
This country was situated on a billabong 12 miles from Canobie, where Edward Palmer, as I have previously mentioned, had settled down. Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869
A deep fringe of birds was constantly moving in and about and around the billabong; and the perpetual clatter of the plovers and waders formed an undercurrent to the life at the homestead. We of the Never-Never
While out boating one Sunday afternoon on a billabong across the river, we saw a young man on horseback driving some horses along the bank. While the Billy Boils
There's no water so treacherous and deceitful as you'll find in some of those billabongs. Children of the Bush
They passed through the billabong boundary and out into the rough country beyond, sharply undulating until it rose into the ranges David Linton had crossed on his way to and from Killybeg. Mates at Billabong
Irregular areas of lignum, hundreds of acres in extent, and eight or ten feet in height, representing swamps; and long, serpentine reaches of the same, but higher in growth, indicating billabongs of the river. Such Is Life
Travelling quicker than the cattle, we were camped and at dinner at "Abraham's"—another lily-strewn billabong—when the mob came in, the thirsty brutes travelling with down-drooping heads and lowing deeply and incessantly. We of the Never-Never
We walked on in silence until we came to the next billabong. Children of the Bush
We crossed the big billabong, and were ploughing through the dust and sand towards West Bourke, when a buggy full of city girls and swells passed by. Children of the Bush
Also the fringe of birds was back at the billabong, having returned with as little warning as it had left, and once more its ceaseless chatter became the undertone of the homestead. We of the Never-Never
We were vaguely chatting on all and sundry matters, as we sat under the verandah that faced the billabong, when the traveller came into sight. We of the Never-Never
Then the billabong "petering out" altogether, and the soakage threatening to follow suit, its yield was kept strictly for personal needs, and Dan and the Maluka gave their attention to the elements. We of the Never-Never
Lately, washing-days at the homestead had lost all their vim, for the creek having stopped running, washing had to be conducted in tubs, so as to keep the billabong clear for drinking purposes. We of the Never-Never
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