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单词 mallee
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She was at the house she built, surrounded by mallee trees and filled with prints of her own wildlife photographs: grizzly bears from a trip to Alaska, a small chameleon on an electric-green leaf. Australia Is Deadly Serious About Killing Millions of Cats 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z
This Wimmera District tapers off into the mallee scrub, the old desert of Victoria, which has lain neglected for years, while Victorians have opened up country 2000 miles away. Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z
"I guess it would be easier to find a scrubber in the mallee than to get on the track of a man who is hiding himself here." The Childerbridge Mystery 2011-02-16T03:00:38.127Z
Driving along mallee roads, one sometimes sees these birds make a short, quick run to cover. An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use 2010-12-31T03:00:10.497Z
The mallee scrub is formed by a species of dwarf eucalyptus, the mulga scrub by a species of thorny acacia. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis
The face was fierce enough, and it poured a steady fire upon the girl from black eyes blazing in the double shade of a felt wideawake and the overhanging mallee. The Shadow of a Man
Several rivers strive to flow from the ranges through or by the mallee to the Murray, but none succeed. Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z
The beds were comfortable, and I managed to keep up a fire of mallee roots all night, for it was bitterly cold. The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam'
Stat. v.r. mallee, scrub        8 Upper brown; wings brown barred white; tail brown, slightly tipped white; under grayish-brown; long legs; shy, runs; f., smaller. An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use 2010-12-31T03:00:10.497Z
In the Mallee country there is abundance of work, cutting down mallee, picking up dead wood, rabbit destruction, etc. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia
The convict stared; but, in the perpetual twilight of the mallee that was the only fact to which Moya could have sworn. The Shadow of a Man
The mallee is just high enough to render it impossible for a man on horseback to look over it. Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z
And a bundle of these papers found their adventurous way to the latest fastness of Stingaree in the mallee. Stingaree
Its color is not the dark-brown suitable for dark scrubs, but is the light-brown which matches the dead mallee twigs lying so thickly on the ground under the scrub. An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use 2010-12-31T03:00:10.497Z
Leaving the mallee, the train comes in time to Ballarat, which used to be the great centre of the gold-mining industry. Peeps At Many Lands: Australia
And the mallee shrub showed no signs of thinning; the open spaces were as few as ever, and as short; on every hand the leaves seemed whispering for miles and miles. The Shadow of a Man
No surface water is to be obtained in the mallee district; its silence is only disturbed by the melancholy wail of the dingo. Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z
He generally lives near the edge of the mallee scrub, and his flesh is very much esteemed by all who have eaten it. The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent
It flies ahead of one along the half-chain strip of scrub left on mallee roads, and is a feature of interest. An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use 2010-12-31T03:00:10.497Z
Quite good crops are now being got from the mallee when the rains are favourable, but in dry seasons the wheat scorches off, and the farmer’s labour is wasted. Peeps At Many Lands: Australia
It was will against will, personality against personality, in an open space among the mallee and the full glare of a climbing sun, mile upon mile from human help or habitation. The Shadow of a Man
One tract of the mallee scrub, shared between Victoria and South Australia, covers an area of nearly 9000 square miles. Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z
The mallee is a gregarious bird, and at the breeding season large numbers of them come together. The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent
Just as the mallee farmer is dependent on his annual wheat harvest, so the remarkable colony of people living on Cape Barren Island is entirely dependent on the annual Mutton-Bird harvest. An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use 2010-12-31T03:00:10.497Z
Started early, and steered about North-East through dense mallee thickets, destitute of grass or water, for eighteen miles. Explorations in Australia, Illustrated,
After the twenty-seven miles we again met with the new small-leafed tree, the broad-leafed mallee, the eucalypti, and many other scrubs. Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
Three small springs only had been found, and the country was covered with the gloomy mallee and tea-tree scrub. The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work
There is one fowl here called the mallee bird, about the size of the pheasant, and resembling him in many ways. The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent
The more stony portions are, however, covered with porcupine grass, and here and there with mallee; large ant-hills are very numerous; they vary in height from two and a half to four feet. Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia
The valley I now traversed became somewhat scrubby with mallee and triodia. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,
The rest of the day's journey was through mallee scrub and sand hills, in which we camped without water; the feed, however, is abundant, yet not so thick as when I crossed before.* Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
He found the country covered with an almost impenetrable mallee scrub, and as there was neither grass nor water for the horses, he was forced to retreat. The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work
However, next morning—after verifying the tracks of the thirsty bullocks so near the gilgie that it seemed a wonder they hadn't walked into it— I looked for the clump of mallee. Such Is Life
There are tracks through the endless mallee scrub, only known to the tribes in the neighbourhood, and a few half-castes like Warrigal, that have been stock-riding about them. Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields
To-day I noticed a tree in the mallee very like a Currajong tree. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,
Bearing to-day, 272 degrees, so as to round the point of range, which seems to have a little mallee in the gullies on this side, and some trees on the west side. Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
Dip of the country to the east, sand hills to the west; afterwards it became alternate sand hills and grassy plains, mulga, mallee, and black oak. Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
I unyoked with despatch, then left the bullocks, and rode round, looking for a clump of mallee, which would indicate the immediate neighbourhood of the water. Such Is Life
The last three miles to the coast is very dense small mallee. Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
To-day we passed through some mallee, and gathered quandongs or native peach, which, with sugar, makes excellent jam; we also saw currajongs and native poplars. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,
For the last two miles we have had no sand hills, but very dense mallee and tea-tree, with a light sandy soil with a little limestone, also salt bush and pig-face in abundance. Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
The eucalypts of the mallee species thrive in deserts and droughts, but contain water in their roots which only the native inhabitants of the country can discover. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,
When a certain class of bushman says 'mallee', he means any sort of scrub except lignum; and when he says 'mulga', he means any tree except pine or currajong. Such Is Life
A wide and deep hollow or valley existed among high sandhill country, timbered mostly with a eucalyptus, which is simply a gigantic species of mallee, but as it grows singly, it resembles gum-trees. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,
The country along the banks of Carmichael's Creek was open and sandy, with plenty of old dry grass, and not much triodia; but to the south, the latter and mallee scrub approached somewhat near. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,
At twenty miles crossed the Douglas, running north through sand hills in a broad valley divided into numerous courses, with dwarf gum-trees, mallee, tea-tree, and numerous other bushes; the bed sandy, and no water. Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
On the eleventh day the plains died off, and we re-entered a new bed of scrubs—again consisting of mallee, casuarinas, desert sandal-wood, and quandong-trees of the same family; the ground was overgrown with spinifex. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,
The scrubs were very thick, and were chiefly mallee, the Eucalyptus dumosa, of course attended by its satellite spinifex. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,
It consisted entirely of high, red sandhills with casuarinas and low mallee, which formed the horizon at about ten miles. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,
A very long root such as I have mentioned might give nearly a bucketful of water; but woe to the white man who fancies he can get water out of mallee. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,
The timber about here is very large, consisting of black oaks, mallee, mulga, the native peach, the nut, and numerous low scrubs. Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
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