Vulgar words in Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields (Page 1)

This book at a glance

about the size of it x 2
beat (one's) brains out x 1
cuss x 1
knocked up x 4
            

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Their horses were pretty well knocked up.

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for that was about the size of it, and we were soon too busy to think about much else.

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I'd never have been here if it hadn't been for that, I do believe; and many another Currency chap can say the same--a horse or a woman--that's about the size of it, one or t'other generally fetches us.

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You and Jim, that darned innocent old cuss, robbing mails and cattle ranches.

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We had a clear two hours' start of the police, and their horses were pretty well knocked up by the pace they'd come home at, so they weren't likely to overhaul us easy.

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Hardy as he was, no horse could stand that altogether; so we kept him under shelter in a roughish kind of a loose box we had knocked up, and fed him on bush hay.

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Next day, late, they rode in with their horses regularly done and knocked up, leading his horse, but no Warrigal.

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I think the man that knocked his head against the wall of his cell the day he was sentenced and beat his brains out in this very gaol had the best of it.

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