Lightly the breath of the spring wind blows, Though laden with faint perfume, 'Tis the fragrance rare that the bushman knows, The scent of the wattle bloom.
Bucorax abyssinicus, inflation of the neck-wattle of the male, during courtship, ii.
The African hornbill (Bucorax abyssinicus) inflates the scarlet bladder-like wattle on its neck, and with its wings drooping and tail expanded "makes quite a grand appearance.
Across the scrub and veld Dick pointed with his sjambok to the white Outspreading tent, then to the wattlebelt That marshalled thinly in the shimmering light.
Under the cloudless curve Of a wide remorseless sky Sleeps the patchy scrub of the sweeping veld And the slim blue gums, and the wattle belt Where the shrike broods watchfully.
Lord, of wattle and dab--its windows, like the port-holes of a vessel.
At the same time Vandeloup and Pierre walked into the bar at the Wattle Tree Hotel, and each had a glass of brandy, after which Pierre went to his bed, and Vandeloup, humming a gay song, turned on his heel and went to the theatre.
I am going down to Ballarat to the Wattle Tree Hotel to see my friend Pierre,' he said, in a preoccupied manner, 'and will have something to eat there.
I went down to the Wattle Tree Hotel as Pierre after leaving my clothes outside the window of the bedroom which Vandeloup pointed out to me.
The Wattle Tree was such a quiet haven of rest, and kept such good liquor, that once a man discovered it he always came back again; so Mr Twexby did a very comfortable trade.
Vandeloup strolled leisurely along the street on his way to the Wattle Tree Hotel.
Mr Villiers was a frequent customer at the Wattle Tree, and was in the back parlour drinking brandy and water and talking to old Twexby on the day that Pierre arrived.
On arriving at the Wattle Tree Hotel he was received by Miss Twexby in dignified silence, for that astute damsel was beginning to regard the fascinating Frenchman as a young man who talked a great deal and meant nothing.
In the middle of one night I still disguised as Pierre, slipped out of the window, and went up to Black Hill, where I found the nugget and brought it down to my room at the Wattle Tree Hotel.
So Slivers stumped along the street, with the cockatoo on his shoulder, looking like a depraved Robinson Crusoe, and took his way to the Wattle Tree Hotel.
Vandeloup, airily; 'I am going to theWattle Tree Hotel to see my friend Pierre off to Melbourne.
The Pactolus claim was a sort of Naboth's vineyard to Slivers, who, in company with Billy, used to sit in his dingy little office and grind his teeth as he thought of all the wealth lying beneath those green fields.
The people led the way to a circular hut of good size, with a conical thatched roof and wattle walls.
The wattle walls were not chinked; so the sweet night wind blew through freely; and elusively he saw stars against the night.
Women of all ages crouched and squatted against the fence and the sides of a large wattle and thatch building.
A high stockade of posts and wattle shut off the view, but over it could be distinguished a thatched roof.
In the centre stood the misnamed guest house, a large mud and wattle building, with a veranda gone to decay.
There were twenty-five or more low huts of wattle and mud, roofed with leaves and grass.
Houses were rapidly erected; most of them consisted of posts stuck in the ground, interwoven with twigs of wattle trees, and then daubed over with mud.
At night they slept beside the falls, where the air was fragrant with the sweet scent of the wattle trees just bursting into bloom.
As they were speaking, they were passing through a narrow way in a wattle scrub.
In order to economize labor, and to make the sides of the mounds as steep as possible, Mr. Goodenough directed with brushwood, forming a sort of rough wattle work.
On the left bank was the wattle town of King William, the sable monarch of the Gaboon.
With the development of the Rand the demand for timber will increase by leaps and bounds, and the market for wattle bark as a tanning material will advance proportionately.
The wattle bark is exported to England, while the tree--stripped of its bark--serves for poles which are much in demand in the Rand mines.
They consist of four posts set in the ground which support the cross-beam and the roof, and the walls are made of wattle and daub, i.
It has a smallwattle of naked red flesh hanging at the side of the neck, hence the name.
Though the dwellings of the native inhabitants are composed merely of wattle and daub, from the sea they present an imposing appearance.
There are about thirty European houses; the rest of the buildings, inhabited by the natives, are of wattle and daub.
While Buckley was still living with the blacks about Corio Bay, in 1827, Gellibrand and Batman applied for a grant of land at Western Port, where the whalers used to strip wattle bark when whales were out of season; but they did not get it.
After the crew of the 'Thistle' had spent their money, they were taken back to Port Fairy for the purpose of stripping bark, a large quantity of wattle trees having been found in the neighbouring country.
October came, when all the scrub, the lightwood, and wattle were in full bloom, and the air everywhere was full of sweetness.
Many years before Batman or Fawkner landed in Port Philip, parties of whalers were sent each year to strip wattle bark at Western Port.
Her husband had left the camp with his gun in the hope of shooting some wattle birds, which were then fat with feeding on the sweet blossoms of the honeysuckle.
They took their guns and went about the bush looking for wattle trees, but they could not find in any place a sufficient quantity to make the business profitable.
There a portico would be patched with gathered bricks and covered with shingles, while by its side stood a house of wattle and daub.
Hence, perhaps, the preservation of the old wattle church, the conquerors being now Christians.
The wattle when first uncovered is as good to all appearance as the day it was made.
This wattle church survived the violent changes which swept over the face of the land.
This wattle church survived till after the Norman invasion, when it was burned by accident[17].
Oh, it's a long while since we said good-bye at Wattle Creek, isn't it?
We said good-bye at Wattle Creek, do you recollect?
When male and female English carrier-pigeons are exhibited in separate pens, the difference in the development of the wattle over the beak and round the eyes is conspicuous.
Candanga, met me in the path and gave me a welcome to his house of 'wattle and daub.
On closer inspection, they were found to be wattle and daub houses, built in English style and whitewashed.
The house was an extension of house added to house joined into solid walls, about one-third of wattle and earth, and the rest of adobe brick.
They are built of the usual wattle and daub, and have benches of rods for the wayfarer to make his bed on; also chairs, and a table, and a large jar of water.
The palace of the governor and government offices are commodious structures, but nearly all the houses of the native inhabitants are of wattle and daub.
They are built ofwattle and daub, and surrounded by plantations of manioc, maize, etc.
Villages of Basongo are dotted over the landscape, and frequently a square house of wattle and daub, belonging to native Portuguese, is placed beside them for the purposes of trade.
Four of them presently moved on to London, where they hired a piece of ground on Cornhill, and built upon it rude cells of wattle and clay with their own hands.
