Don't you think you'd best give this up for once--this bushranger game?
I have no doubt you would treat an adult bushranger in exactly the same way.
The squatter was standing with his hands above his head, so evidently could not do so, and the bushranger said to me: "Captain, sling that bag over here.
They said a bushrangeron horseback had been seen in that country only a few days before by the natives, at whom he had fired a pistol when they had nearly caught him at a waterhole.
All this seemed rather mysterious until the nature of the song I had heard was explained to me afterwards at Sydney by The Bushranger when I visited him in the hulk on my return.
We went on and on; and it seemed to me that we must be near the part of the cliff over which the bushranger had fallen.
I suppose that the bushranger must have been making his way to the northward, and had already passed over this barren region, when he perished," observed Mudge.
It surely will not be so difficult here to overtake a bushranger as it is in the fifth quarter of the globe, Dudley?
Only four persons, besides Mary Hawker herself, were conversant of the fact that the Bushranger and George Hawker were the same man.
The secret not being ours, your father and I never told any of you young people of the fact of this bushranger being poor Mrs. Hawker's husband.
With Benjamin Gillam, our bushranger passed off the same subterfuge with which he had hoodwinked Zachary.
The unlucky wretch they now beheld was a bushranger who, in a paroxysm of rage, had murdered the surgeon at the fort.
By the majority of members the bushrangerwas hardly likely to be accorded full justice, for great offence had been given by his presentation at Court and the extremely informal manner of his arrival.
The experienced bushranger deemed it best not to land the cargo until communication had been made with the natives; and their attitude, friendly or otherwise, towards the strangers ascertained.
Seignely exerted his full powers of persuasion, he might have induced our bushranger to remain in the service of Lewis.
With great joy the bushranger ran from the fort to the point of land commanding the Bay, thinking to welcome back Gillam and the expected Nonsuch.
For a few weeks the Hudson's Bay bushranger found himself a lion.
It now only remained for the bushranger to accomplish one other object before setting sail with the cargo for England.
One of the crew had got a leg over the side of the boat when our bushranger cried out in a loud voice: "Hold, in the King's name.
Devereux; 'what you call a bushranger in Australia, don't you?
The whole mighty matter,' said Harold, thinking that he could best describe the affair in the familiar terms which would perhaps divest the intelligence of sudden terror, 'is that Herne has got news of these bushranger fellows.
The life of a bushranger in New South Wales, which fills in the end of his Australian career, did not tend to the development of any stray germ of a soul that the prison-fires had not scorched out of old Maisie's son.
He was by that time practically damned beyond redemption, and his brilliant career as a bushranger followed as a matter of course.
The big bushranger had, however, already got to a considerable distance, and although both fired, he continued his course, apparently uninjured.
Some weeks afterwards the body of the bushranger who had escaped was discovered in a state of emaciation, showing that he must have been starved to death.
Stuck up at last, young master," cried a voice which I recognised as that of the tallbushranger Guy and I had before encountered and driven off.
Without speaking another word to me, the big bushranger led off my horse, carrying with him my gun and articles he had taken from me, and disappeared among the trees.
I did not again hear his voice, and as the bushranger swore that he would shoot me through the head should I move, I thought it as well not to look round lest he should put his threat into execution.
The bushranger now holding a pistol to my head made me get up and walk to a tree some distance from the track, so that should any travellers pass by I should not be discovered.
The big bushranger and Vinson, who were, we had little doubt, the other two we had seen, had gone off probably to catch the horses.
He looked at me and then at my brother, whose attention was occupied by the older bushranger and did not notice him as I was doing.
It was a nervous time, but we had not long to wait before we heard the dull sound of galloping feet, and several horses came in sight, followed by the big bushranger mounted on a powerful steed.
The shock of the contact with Amber's weight and great strength fairly knocked the bushranger out of the saddle.
As he already had a firm hold of the bushranger he was able to do this with greater certainty, and before the astonished man knew what he was about the boy was firmly seated behind him.
As he passed by Starlight's hammock the bushranger turned in his sleep, and threw back the blanket from his throat.
Although only just aroused from his first deep sleep thebushranger had all his wits about him at once, and he seemed to know instinctively what had happened.
The bushranger yelled for help and tried to stop his horse, but failed to do so.
They were not equally matched, for the man was not only much older and heavier than Alec but much stronger too, but Alec was much the more active, and being wiry and muscular he gave the bushranger as much as he could well do.
Like a flash Fletcher turned from his place at the head of the train and eyed the bushranger with a frown.
The bushranger allowed Obed to take it in his hand.
He wished to marry her, but as a bushranger he knew this was impossible.
Illustration: The Death of the Bushranger Captain.
I am no more a bushranger than you are," said Colson uneasily.
I would rather be captured by a bushranger than scalped by an Indian.
We are strong enough to overcome them," said the bushranger carelessly.
When Star turned bushranger Belle was only twelve, but she was already well qualified to be a prominent member of his gang.
A reformed bushranger was dispatched to treat with a young man who had absconded from the commissariat: he resolved to accompany the messenger into the presence of the Governor; but he went armed.
But when the bushranger did not employ these people as the instrument of his designs, by fear or cruelty, often he destroyed them: thus Lemon and Brown set up the natives as marks to fire at.
A bushranger to her was simply an exaggerated "traveller," and nothing more.
After submitting to it for a time, the bushranger generally gave up the secret of the whereabouts of his gold.
The youths nodded, and said the name of that famous bushranger was familiar to them.
Those bushrangerfellows must have been terrible men," remarked Harry as the gentleman paused.
And did these four men capture the bushranger gang?
When ordinary methods failed, a favorite device was to tie the bushranger hand and foot, and then place him on an ant hill.
Another famous bushranger was Captain Moonlight, who served his time and became a respectable citizen.
The net result of this was the drowning of two more hounds and the driving of the baffled bushranger to the verge of distraction.
The loss of the big black-and-tan was so great a calamity for the old bushranger that it had the effect of sobering rather than further exciting him.
The bushranger laughed -- not a word he replied, But turned to the girl who knelt down by his side.
He came slowly towards the bushranger who, smiling, said as he advanced: "Yes, arrest me!
The bushranger carried him to a bed, and summoned Gongi and the woman from the tavern, and in another hour was riding away through the valley of the Popri.
With the name of Roadmaster often heard at Wandenong, Barbara Golding's heart had no warning instinct of who the bushranger was.
A year later Hyland the bushranger was shot in a struggle with the mounted police sent to capture him.
The word had been passed among the squatters who had united to avenge Finchley's death that the bushranger was to be shot on sight, that he should not be left to the uncertainty of the law.
A price is set on my head," the bushranger answered with a grim smile.
The bushranger threw aside all bravado and irony, and said: "I knew you could not.
He merely asked that he should be permitted to keep the ring, as it had many associations, remarking at the same time that he would be pleased to give an equivalent for it if the bushranger would come to Wandenong.
And in the bush I lighted on A fierce bushranger with his gun, Who borrowed my garments, every one, For himself in the bush of Australia.
John Gilbert was a bushranger of terrible renown, For sticking lots of people up and shooting others down.
And Miss O’Flanagan performed in manner quite gintailly Upon the grand planner for the bushranger O’Meally.
He was scarcely sixteen years of age when he left his father’s home, And through Australia’s sunny clime a bushranger did roam.
It was what the despised colonials feared and any bushrangercould have predicted.
Peré, it will be remembered, was a bushranger of Duluth's band, who had been with Jolliet on Lake Superior.
To the unpractised ear all was as still as before--the hum of a passing insect, the chirp of a bird, the rustle of the leaves; but the bushranger rose with the air of a man who has satisfied himself.
You won't think it very romantic if some old bushranger gets in through the night and shoots you dead," Grizzel cheerfully suggested.
It was a dirty burgling business for a decent bushranger to lose his life in, now wasn't it?
Nearer and nearer did the bushranger draw, and we could hear him mutter an oath at the difficult task that was assigned him.
Your wish is unkind, considering the favor which we intend to show you," sneered the bushranger captain.
I have examined the bushes carefully, and no signs of a bushranger are to be seen," the old man said, laying the long gun which he was accustomed to use by his side, and brushing off a few specks of dust which had collected on the barrel.
Murden uttered the words with an expression of disgust that did not fail to convince the bushranger of the estimation in which he was held.
As though he did not wish to converse further upon the subject, the bushranger turned his back upon us, and maintained a stoical silence until we reached Ballarat.
We heard the bushranger selected for the purpose, commence descending slowly, for the task was one of considerable difficulty, and required some caution.
They should have given the coveys a pint of brandy each, and then they would have been all right," grunted the fellow whom the bushranger called Bill.
I have a commission which I wish you to take care of," the bushranger said, scanning my face to see what effect his words would have upon me; "can I trust you to take charge of it?
Just as he advanced towards me, the fellow I had outstripped appeared in sight, and the bushranger evidently thought that it was better to beat a retreat.
The bushranger slowly rose to his feet, and his hideous face seemed almost to burst, so livid were the scars which marked it; his eyes were injected with blood, and glared like those of a wild beast.
They are the two Americans who are known all over the island asbushranger hunters.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bushranger" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
