I don't care so long's my back isn't too bad, and he scrubs down for me, and I can pay my way.
Next day he gets up and cleans the grates and scrubsfor me.
The myall scrubs are nearly all of Acacia pendula.
Scrubs where the different species of banksia are found, the flowers of which I (Mr. Caley) have reason to think afford it sustenance during winter.
The ingenious nests of this bird were found in the scrubs near Herbert Vale--a great many in the same tree.
The Australian cassowary is found in Northern Queensland from Herbert river northwards, in all the large vine-scrubs on the banks of the rivers, and on the high mountains of the coasts.
It sometimes forms scrubs and thickets, which give a characteristic appearance to the interior of this part of Australia, so that, once seen, it can never be again mistaken for scenery of any other country in the world.
This curious grass-like fern may be frequently seen fringing the stems of the trees in the scrubs of tropical Queensland, in which situation the fronds are usually very long.
In Australia, the word is loosely applied to many trailing or creeping plants, which help to form scrubs and thickets.
There were no accidents during practice; every fellow in the line-up played for all that was in him; and the scrubs took a licking every afternoon.
The general course was now west-north-west through a country with rich grassy valleys and dense scrubs of brigalow acacia on the higher ground.
North of latitude 26 degrees dense scrubs of acacia prevailed on the level country beyond the influence of the inundations, but to the southward sandy and stony deserts, with low shrubby vegetation, were the characteristic feature.
The country generally was more open, with grassy box-flats; melaleuca scrubs less frequent.
Timber was wholly confined to the bank of the river, and though open plains existed, acaciascrubs were the principal feature.
There was a slight improvement in the grass, but dense scrubs prevailed in the back country, and even approached the river at intervals.
They crossed the dense scrubs and basaltic ridge dividing the Dawson waters from those trending to the west, flowing into the basin of the Maranoa River.
On the north-east coast, they use a wooden sword which is wielded with both hands, and seems to have been an improvement or an innovation on the boomerang, where the dense scrubs prohibited the use of the throwing weapon.
Besides hilly mountainous ranges, brigalow and vine scrubs surrounded the base of Mount Spencer, whose thousand feet of height they climbed, and gave to it its name.
They then travelled to the present site of Cooktown, and followed up the Endeavour River for thirty miles, striking south to the Bloomfield River, where the dense vine scrubs greatly impeded their progress.
They held a run in the Wide Bay district, called Monduran, on the banks of the Kolan River, a beautiful and picturesque stream of clear flowing water, with varied patches of dark pinescrubs growing down to the water's edge.
All along the east coast, where the rainfall is heavy, we find forests of splendid hardwood and scrubscontaining cedar and pine of gigantic growth.
Through tangled scrubs and broken ground, We have often had to scramble; To wheel the cunning brumbie's round, From where they love to ramble.
It is really a beautiful river, with a clear running stream all the year round, and some deep reaches of still water; the banks are covered with scrubs of pencil cedar and a great variety of hanging vines and thick shrubs.
They ascended a branch coming from the north-east, and for a time travelled through well grassed and promising valleys, but afterwards found themselves once more in the scrubs and sandy plains of the desert.
Open forest and undulating country took the place of the everlasting scrubs and rocks, that had been such common objects with them, and well satisfied with what they saw the explorers turned north.
The rains came down on them in the sickly brigalow scrubs of the Dawson and Mackenzie.
In birds, however, the difference is great, the seeds and fruit on which some birds exist being only found in either the coastalscrubs or lowland country, whilst many of the parrots and pigeons of the interior could not live on the coast.
We have now seen how Oxley, prevented from following the river down by an overflow amongst the marshes, turned south-west, only to be driven back by impenetrable scrubs and general aridity.
They were now amongst the same description of scrubs that had played such havoc with Kennedy, and day after day they only advanced a few miles.
Dempster, Clarkson, and Harper started from Northam to make one more trial to the east to get through the dense scrubs and the salt-lake country into a more promising region.
Northward it runs to the Uxbridge Road, follows this eastward for a few yards, and strikes again northward up Old Oak Road and Old Oak Common Road until it reaches Wormwood Scrubs public and military ground.
On part of this land was built the prison of Wormwood Scrubs in 1874.
The West London Railway runs in the bed of an ancient stream which rose north of Wormwood Scrubs and ended at Chelsea Creek, and this brook was crossed by a bridge at the place where the railway-bridge now stands on the Hammersmith Road.
After scouring all the scrubs on Mistake Creek, we arrived at Lanark Downs Station, where a traveller informed me he had seen a number of horses at Miclere Creek, 17 miles on the road to Copperfield.
The travelling away from the gidya scrubs down the Belyando River soon dispelled all signs of the sickness.
You've been practicing among the Flat scrubs again," he said to his son.
Previously to this time he had taken a great interest in the various attempts which had been made to introduce the Atmospheric System, and he had himself conducted experiments at Wormwood Scrubs and at Dalkey.
An experimental tube was laid down at Wormwood Scrubs on part of the short line now incorporated into the West London Railway, and then known by the title of the Bristol, Birmingham, and Thames Junction Railway.
It lives in the highest parts of the mountainous scrubs of Queensland, where it moves quickly on the ground as well as among the trees.
They are a class of men who exist during the greater portion of the year in the bush and scrubs bordering on the rivers and creeks, where they unceasingly and uninterruptedly practise their vocations.
I should have imagined that men who had laboured hard, and were living in the bush and scrubs in all sorts of discomfort, would have had some desire to better their condition, and would have accumulated means accordingly.
So the fellers prefer keeping to the scrubs cutting timber; 'cos then they are not bound to work for sharpers, and can just please themselves.
No armchair rest for the old folk then-- But, ruined by blight and drought, They blazed the tracks to the camps again In the big scrubs further out.
A big auto-stage conveyed the team, and in the automobile of our heroes as many of the scrubs as could find room went along to cheer for their team.
Ned, as one of the scrubs intercepted a forward pass, and dashed down the line fifty yards for a touchdown against the varsity.
We want the varsity to beat its other college opponents, and we scrubs are willing to be beaten if that comes about.
When the practice ended and the team and scrubscame off the field Bob found himself near the lad who had made the touchdown with the intercepted forward pass.
Ted Newton was working his men strenuously, while the coaches were first begging the scrubs to hold the varsity in order to develop a good offense, and alternating that with fierce demands for the varsity to rip up the unfortunate substitutes.
The scrubs were to bat first, and Gene Flarity was up.
The varsity and the scrubs were hard at work on the gridiron when the three chums reached the grounds.
We found among the scrubs this day a new curious species of Baeckea with extremely small scattered leaves not larger than grains of millet, plano-convex and covered with pellucid dots.
On passing the scrubs we crossed a plain of the same kind which we had so often met.
I thus met the track of the carts at rightangles and galloped after them as they were driving through scrubs and over heaths away to the westward.
But in all these scrubs on the Murray the Fusanus acuminatus is common and produces the quandang nut (or kernel) in such abundance that it and gum acacia may in time become articles of commerce in Australia.
The scrubs now receded from the river, but the curious variety of acacias they contained still drew our attention towards them.
I've seen Heffelfinger come back to Yale Field after being out of college twenty years and play with the scrubs for fifty-five minutes without a layoff!
He says: "I think it was in the Fall of '95 that Skim Brown, who played the tackle position, was captain of the scrubs team at New Haven.
Despite their efforts the varsity could not cross the line and the ball went over to the scrubson the twenty yard line.
It was indeed a disgrace to be walloped by the scrubs with the season almost over.
Consequently the college turned out almost to a man to watch their idol pigskin chasers maul the scrubs as a final demonstration of their ability to whip Pennington.
The wet season and monsoonal rains caught the party amongst the sickly acacia scrubs of that region; and hemmed in by mud and bog they lost their stock, consumed their provisions, and made no progress.
These scrubs are generally found on the banks of rivers, although in certain localities broad areas, containing hundreds of square miles, are clothed with scrub.
Dense scrubs reach close to the bank's edge, and the bush is filled with the most beautiful orchids, which, when in full flower, is a sight never to be forgotten.
These scrubs are rather dangerous in wet weather, as then the numerous creeks become flooded and are unfordable, and sometimes the traveller is unwillingly made a prisoner, or has to run the risk of crossing a swollen stream.
The scrubswill eat quite as much as full-bloods, yet the returns from the scrubs are much less.
We both returned late, greatly fatigued with walking through dense scrubs and over steep heavy sand ridges, but without having fired a shot.
The playing had been unusually spirited, and the scrubs had been giving the regulars all they could do to hold their own.
Twice he carried the ball over the line for a touchdown, and before his onslaughts the scrubs crumpled up like paper.
The scrubs braced savagely, but Tom came plunging in like a locomotive.
You won't mind playing on thescrubs at the start, will you?
Thursday again saw the first team in the ascendancy and the scrubs got their first thorough licking in more than three weeks.
After a few days the scrubs began to lose some of their rough edges and Steve relaxed a bit.
With Coach Cade and Captain Mart driving as mercilessly as in a mid-week scrimmage, that patched-up first eleven got together as no first eleven had for a fortnight and gave the scrubs the fight of their lives.
The scrubs have been pushing us around pretty fiercely so far.
A sudden massing of the scrubs at the left of center.
Scrubs of any kind are always undesirable, since it has been proved that quality is more profitable than quantity.
His cattle, horses and dogs are all of the best, as he believes in thoroughbreds and has no use whatever for scrubs of either the human or brute kind.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scrubs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
