According to the account given of it by the natives, the wombat of the mountains is never seen during the day, but lives retired in his hole, feeding only in the night; but that of the islands is seen to feed in all parts of the day.
In the opinion of Mr. Bass, this Wombat seemed to be very economically made; but he thought it unnecessary to give an account of its internal structure in his journal.
Besides Furneaux's Islands, the Wombat inhabits, as has been seen, the mountains to the westward of Port Jackson.
This circumstance seemed to indicate, that with kind treatment the Wombat might soon be rendered extremely docile, and probably affectionate; but let his tutor beware of giving him provocation, at least if he should be full grown.
The wombat is like a very large pig; it lives underground, burrowing vast distances.
The wombat is a great nuisance in districts where there are irrigation canals; its burrows weaken the banks of the water-channels, and cause collapses.
It's like, I learned a new song that I was going to sing at wombat school, and then Henry went and learned it, too!
About a week prior to Queen Ozma's meeting with the Land Sharks, a young wombat had come to the Cowardly Lion to ask his advice.
The ground on the eastern shore was full of wombat holes which had been made in a stratum of compact tuff about a foot in thickness.
The summit was full of wombat holes and, unlike that side by which I had ascended, it was covered with the dead trunks of enormous trees in all stages of decay.
This is the specimen conjectured to have belonged to the Dugong, but the incisor resembles the corresponding tooth of the wombat in its enamelled structure and position.
The sight of the wombat roasting before the fire excited his interest, and he inquired of Pullingo how we had obtained it.
There were in places a great many wombat holes, but these were now all occupied by their tenants, and the whole aspect of the country was more encouraging and cheerful; the extent of good country was, however, very limited.
The country around was still of the same character as before, but amidst the never-ceasing strata of limestone which everywhere protruded, were innumerable large wombat holes--yet strange to say not one of these was tenanted.
The wombat is driven to his hole with dogs at night, and a fire being lighted inside, the mouth is closed with stones and earth.
It was steep, rough-going, boulder-strewn and undermined with wombat holes.
The wombat is very powerful, and can turn a boulder almost as large as itself out of the way when it bars the road.
He took them but a little way from where they had camped, and disclosed in the hillside what looked like a good-sized wombat or rabbit-hole.
In the opinion of Mr. Bass this Wombat seemed to be very oeconomically made.
The Wombat or Australian Badger as it is popularly called by the colonists.
The Wombat is a large kind of badger, which burrows in the ground to a considerable depth, and is taken by the blacks for food; it makes a noise, when attacked in its hole, something similar to the grunting of a pig.
The wombat resembles a large badger in the shortness of its legs, but has a little of the pig and the bear in its shape, hair, and movements.
The wombat Jack had killed was about the size of a sheep; they divested it of its smooth thick fur skin, which was hung up to dry immediately.
A gland or a collection of smaller glands occurs in the stomach, and recalls the "cardiac gland" of the Wombat and the Beaver, also that of the Giraffe.
More certainly allied to the existing Wombat was Phascolonus, a Wombat as big as a Tapir.
The stomach has near the entrance of the oesophagus a glandular patch, which seems to be like that of the Wombat (see p.
The brain, however, is smooth, and the caecum is exceedingly large and complicated in structure, that of the Wombat being short.
The evening ended less amiably than it began, and no one thought of the wombat until late, and then it had disappeared.
Whistler was dining at Tudor House, and the wombat was brought on the table with coffee and cigars, while Meredith talked brilliantly, and Swinburne read aloud passages from the Leaves of Grass.
He can find his way through those Wombat Ranges, they say, the darkest night that ever was, and drive cattle besides.
During the time this man had been with us, I took the opportunity of ascertaining whether the King George's Sound native, Wylie, could understand him, but I found he could not.
At one we again proceeded, and were able to advance more rapidly than we could whilst the sheep were with us.
After they had rested a few hours I broke up the encampment, and travelling for fourteen miles further over a scrubby country, came to a patch of grass, at which we halted early.
But thewombat having tasted the comforts of civilized life, had no desire to dig for its living again.
When the Wombat saw the sergeant in the grasp of an inebriate he bore down on the fray full of fight.
Dooley, better known as The Wombat because of his sleepy disposition, was a man of great strength.
They were busy sharpening up a carving knife on a portable grind-stone, but the moment they caught sight of the travellers the Possum whipped the knife behind him and the Wombat put his hat over the grindstone.
The Possum whipped the bag over their heads, the Wombat whipped a rope round the bag, and there they were, helpless.
Illustration] Waiting till the others were hidden behind the tree, Bunyip rapped smartly on the door which opened presently and the Wombat put his head out cautiously.
The Possum and the Wombat objected, saying there wasn't room enough in the witness-box to turn round, so it was found necessary to twist their snouts the opposite way.
Of course, seeing a perfect stranger at the door, the Wombat had no suspicions, and said at once, 'Such is the name of him you see before you.
Bill, hitting the Possum a swinging blow on the snout, while Sam gave the Wombatone of his famous over-arm flip flaps that knocked all the wind out of him.
So on the principle of always getting something for nothing, as the Wombat said, Puddin' was brought out and placed on the ground.
The Wombat had to take his hat off, or prove himself disloyal, and there was Puddin' sitting on his head.
In the Wombat and Koala the tail is small and without chevron bones.
When fully grown the wombat is about three feet in length, and its legs are so short that its body almost touches the ground as it waddles awkwardly along.
The large-browed wombat might, at first sight, be mistaken for a small bear.
He is better known by his native name of the Wombat (Phascolomys Wombat), and was first discovered by Bass, the gallant explorer and surgeon, whose name is indissolubly connected with the bright deeds of Australian discovery.
The interior of the country is, as I have already indicated, in all probability an immense plain, thinly sown with trees of the two families of Acaciae and Eucalypti, and tenanted by the wombat and the kangaroo.
Tracks of that queer animal the wombat (Phascolomys) near his burrows and galleries are frequent.
The Possum wished to turn the matter off by saying, "I see the price of eggs has gone up again," but Bill gave him a punch on the snout that bent it like a carrot, and Sam caught the Wombat such a flip with his flapper that he gave in at once.
They were dressed as common ordinary puddin'-thieves, save that the Possum carried a bran bag in his hand and the Wombat waved a white flag.
No harm is intended," said the Possum, and the Wombat added: "Harm is as far from our thoughts as from the thoughts of angels.
Waiting till the others were hidden behind the tree, Bunyip rapped smartly on the door which opened presently, and the Wombat put his head out cautiously.
Of course, seeing a perfect stranger at the door, the Wombat had no suspicions, and said at once.
Of course there was a great deal of smoke and shouting, and getting tripped up by the hose, and it was by the merest chance Bunyip Bluegum glanced back in time to see the Wombat in the act of stealing the Puddin' from the hollow log.
They were busy sharpening up a carving knife on a portable grindstone, but the moment they caught sight of the travellers the Possum whipped the knife behind him and the Wombat put his hat over the grindstone.
Bill, hitting the Possum a swingeing blow on the snout, while Sam gave the Wombat one of his famous over-arm flip flaps that knocked all the wind out of him.
No others of the indigenous quadrupeds are usually used for food, although occasionally bushmen eat the wombat and echidna, and, more rarely, the bandicoots and kangaroo rats.
The common wombatstill meditates and chuckles inwardly over his victory, and the hairy-nosed wombat is thinking hard, and mustn't be disturbed.
The hairy-nosed wombat thought it over and the common wombat thought it over (chuckling the while) for some hours without arriving at any more epigrams.
The common wombat felt the sting of the remark and determined upon a crushing repartee.
The wombat cannot jump like the kangaroo or the wallaby, and his sprightliness and activity are the sprightliness and activity of a cast-iron pig.
While the other chuckled over his achievement (about an hour and a half) the common wombat laboriously constructed his retort.
Here, in lairs side by side, live a common wombat and a hairy-nosed wombat.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wombat" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: animal; antelope; armadillo; bat; elephant; hare; horse; kangaroo; mammal; opossum; pig; rat
