I felt ill again from my morning's walk, and lay down in the 110 degrees of shade, afforded by the bough gunyahwhich Gibson had formerly made.
It was very late when we reached our old bough gunyah camp; there was no water.
Here we had the back of our gunyah for a shield, and could poke the muzzles of our guns and rifles through the interstices of the boughs.
We therefore slept some miles away from the encampment in a makeshift gunyah built of boughs, in front of which the usual fire was made.
All else was still, but a crouching form at the entrance to the gunyah warned me I was a prisoner.
In the evening they supplied me with abundance of nardoo and fish, and one of the old men, Poko Tinnamira, shared his gunyah with me.
During his absence, while Mr. Burke was cooking some fish during a strong wind, the flames caught the gunyah and burned so rapidly that we were unable not only to put it out but to save any of our things, excepting one revolver and a gun.
And with this and some mallee-branches she made a gunyah over him, though he said it stifled him, and complained bitterly to the end.
She was less satisfied when she had caught the horse and still must hear the mangled man; for he railed at her, from the gunyah she had built him, to the very end.
In topping an abrupt little ridge, he had come suddenly into full view of a bark gunyah or shanty, in the triangular opening of which, beside a bright fire, sat a man and a big black hound.
His back, too, which had been broad and flat, was like the ridge of a gunyah now, from one end of which his neck rose gauntly, and appeared to be of prodigious length.
He slept a little farther from the gunyah now, and relied almost entirely upon his own hunting for food.
Bill presently tied up the hanging door of the gunyah and mounted his horse.
It was extremely pleasant to lie near the camp-fire with Jess of a night, and to run with Jess in the bush by day; but nothing would induce Finn to approach the gunyah more nearly, or to allow Bill's hand to come within a yard of him.
The course taken by the kangaroo had been a curve which ended rather nearer to the gunyah than it began.
There was no sign of Jess that nose or eye or ear could detect, but Finn told himself as he moved away from the gunyah that this was doubtless Bill, and that Jess would be likely to follow.
But he dozed now, out there in the clear patch where the gunyah stood, free of all thoughts of men and cages.
Finn carried this fat kill back to his den, and feasted right royally that night for the first time since he was expelled from the purlieus of the gunyah and the easy-going old life.
Bill was just dismounting beside the gunyah when Finn arrived, trailing just upon twelve feet of gorged snake beside him.
Bowen's answer was to hand his weapon over to Kilbride and to creep into the gunyah on his hands and knees.
The only other sign of Stingaree was a hank of rope flung carelessly across the gunyah roof.
Kilbride then crept into the gunyah upon his hands and knees, and found it less dark than he had supposed, the light filtering freely through the leaves and branches.
The camp was pitched in the angle formed by the large creek running into the river just below the gunyah camp of their first trip, mentioned January 30th.
The meat curing was as usual a slow process, there being no salt, and a gunyah having to be made to smoke it in.
The rain too, very much impeded the drying of the beef, for which, as usual, a bark gunyah had to be erected.
The aboriginal names for hut may be thus tabulatedGunyah ) .
As we rode up we could see a gunyah made out of boughs, and a longish wing of dog leg fence, made light but well put together.
Who the deuce ever built this gunyah and lived in it by himself for years and years?
As we rode up we could see a gunyah made out of boughs, and a longish wing of dogleg fence, made light but well put together.
He went away to his gunyah then, and except doing one or two things for Starlight would not lift his hand for any one that day.
Supper over, one of the natives offered to share his gunyah with the weary traveller, and all of them were very attentive in bringing wood and keeping up the fire during the night.
In the evening he partook of a supper of fish and nardoo, and one of the old men shared his gunyahwith poor Wills.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gunyah" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
