The 6,537 occurrences of bastard

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Left alone, the regent became thoughtful-this whole affair, so somber and so tenacious of life, this remains of the former conspiracy, filled the duke's mind with gloomy thoughts; he had braved death in battle, had laughed at abductions meditated by the Spaniards and by Louis the Fourteenth's bastards; but this time a secret horror oppressed him; he felt an involuntary admiration for the young man whose poniard was raised against him; sometimes he hated him, at others he excused-he almost loved him.

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Think, then, of the ridicule if it were known that your daughter loved the man who was to stab you; the bastards would laugh for a month; it is enough to revive La Maintenon, who is dying, and make her live a year longer.

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Bretagne had, from the first, taken an active part in the movement of the legitimated bastards; this province, which had given pledges of fidelity to monarchical principles, and pushed them to exaggeration, if not to madness, since it preferred the adulterous offspring of a king to the interests of a kingdom, and since its love became a crime by calling in aid of the pretensions of those whom it recognized as its princes, enemies against whom Louis XIV.

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That of the bastards, centering in the Duc de Maine, and that of the legitimate princes, represented by the Duc d'Orleans.

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The passport was in the name of Signior Diego, steward of the noble house of Oropesa, who had a commission to bring back to Spain a sort of maniac, a bastard of the said house, whose mania was to believe himself regent of France.

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Believe me, my child, those who calumniate the soul would have few scruples about killing the body; and you know that the Duchesse de Maine has said, 'that the very day when she is quite sure that there is really nothing to be made out of her bastard of a husband, she will demand an audience of you, and drive her dagger into your heart.'"

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"No, it is not that, but I confess it is pleasing to me to see that she has no better opinion of bastards than I have; but it is because, except as to beauty, which she has and I never had, she is exactly what I was at her age, having true boy's tastes, loving dogs, horses, and cavalcades, managing powder like an artilleryman, and making squibs like a workman; well, guess what has happened to her."

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"Firstly, Monsieur the Duc de Maine; fancy that miserable bastard conspiring against a man like Monseigneur the Regent.

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What Rohan of them all was ever a patch on this poor bastard of Antoinette Josselin's, either for beauty, pluck, or mother-wit--or even for honor, if it came to that?

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the same tittle-tattle about well-known people, and nothing else--as if nothing else existed; a genial, easy-going, good-natured world, that he had so often found charming for a time, but in which he was never quite happy and had no proper place of his own, all through that fatal bar-sinister--la barre de bâtardise; a world that was his and yet not his, and in whose midst his position was a false one, but where every one took him for granted at once as one of _them_, so long as he never trespassed beyond that sufferance; that there must be no love-making to lovely young heiresses by the bastard of Antoinette Josselin was taken for granted also!

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Had he, situated as he was, the right to win the love of this splendid creature, in the face of the world's opposition and her family's--he, a beggar and a bastard?

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At that date the Lady Mary was still called a bastard, though most men thought that that hardship would soon be reversed.

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'See you, Moll,' the King broke in on her eagerly, 'if you will marry the Infant of Spain----' 'God's sakes,' she said lightly, 'my cousin's son will wed no bastard as I be.'

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You will have me no longer called bastard?

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Why, I had rather be called bastard than the acknowledged child of such a royal King.

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'And is it not a shameful thing you bid me do, to bid me speak pleasant words to him that slew my mother and called me bastard?'

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'And oh,' she said, her face being set and earnest in entreaty towards the girl's back, 'if you have any love for the green and fertile land that gave birth both to you and to me----' 'But to me a bastard,' the Lady Mary said.

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'Up, bastard!' he called out.

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"That bastard with his teeth stickin' out?"

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The number of illegitimate births was extraordinarily high, the example being set by the dukes themselves, Philip the Good alone being responsible for eighteen bastards and Jean de Heinsberg, Bishop of Liége, for nearly as many.

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'Hence the use of bastards.

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Bastard Balm is an allied plant, _Melittis Melissophyllum_, a southern European species, found in the south and south-west of England.

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That such precautions were taken as early as 1629, so that possible murder would not go undetected, is shown in testimony before the General Court at Jamestown after the newly-born bastard child of a servant girl was found dead.

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For such self-abasement the King had handsomely rewarded the compliant maid-of-honour, promising to give her an estate, and so much per head for each bastard she might have by Charles of England.

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But the multiplying brood of the ungodly shall be of no profit, and with bastard slips they shall not strike deep root, nor shall they establish a sure hold.

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We cut a path through an immense large forest, which boasted some noble-looking cotton, manchineel and iron trees, and a red tree something resembling the bastard mahogany.

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Was it a safe thing to have always near him that bastard, a daughter, whom he introduced into the house at the end of five years of married life, and who, were it not for me, might have led him into some act of folly?"

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Cola Di Rienzi was born of humble parents, though he afterward tried to gratify his own vanity and to gain the ear of Charles IV by claiming to be the bastard son of Henry VII.

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The King was sent to Westminster, and thence on the following day to the Tower, and, as he went along, was greeted with curses and the appellation of "the bastard," a word of ominous import, and prophetic of his approaching degradation.

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Here we are on the confines of Normandy, Picardy, and the Île-de-France, a bastard land, whose language is without accent as its landscape is without character.

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Not fanned alone by Victory's fleeting wing, He reared his bold and brilliant throne on high; The Bastard kept, like lions, his prey fast, And Britain's bravest Victor was the last.

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139_ Mules, Italian name of bastards and foundlings, vi.

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370_ Tuscan, "that soft bastard Latin," iv.

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The French general-in-chief was the famous Dunois, then called the Bastard of Orleans.

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Then Joan spoke to me thus: [Illustration: 'Then spurred she her horse... and put out the flame'] '"Are you the Bastard of Orleans?"

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The Maid, as a prisoner of the Bastard of Wandomme, himself a man of Jean de Luxembourg, was led to Margny, where the Burgundian and English captains rejoiced over her.

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When, two days later, master and man strode through the splendid havoc of the woods, where the dead lay where they had fallen, and the quick were wrestling for life, where the bastard was bullying the true-born, and kings were mobbed by an unruly rabble--dogs with their paws upon the table, eating the children's bread--where avenues and glades were choked with thickets, where clearings had become brakes, and vistas and prospects were screened by aged upstarts that knew no law; when they followed the broken roads, where fallen banks sprawled on the fairway, and the laborious rain had worn ruts into straggling ditches, where culverts had given way and the dammed streams had spread the track with wasting pools, where sometimes time-honoured weeds blotted the very memory of the trail into oblivion; when they stood before an old grey mansion, with what had once been lawns about it and the ruin of a great cedar hard by its side, its many windows surveying with a grave stare the wreck and riot of the court it kept--then for the first time Anthony Lyveden heard the sound of the trumpets.

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A witness hesitates, and an estate passes to the bastard and to his heirs for ever.... And so the game goes on.

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If I succeed in this Bill, as I _expect_ to do, relating to the able poor, I shall, next sessions, proceed to accomplish the rest of my plan, by amending and giving force to (where necessary) the Bastard, Vagrant Laws, and generally those of police respecting the poor.

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Then the King, after his disconnected utterances, suddenly begins to speak ironically about flatterers, who agreed to all he said, "Ay, and no, too, was no good divinity," but, when he got into a storm without shelter, he saw all this was not true; and then goes on to [37] say that as all creation addicts itself to adultery, and Gloucester's bastard son had treated his father more kindly than his daughters had treated him (altho Lear, according to the development of the drama, could not know how Edmund had treated Gloucester), therefore, let dissoluteness prosper, the more so as, being a King, he needs soldiers.

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Bastards are villains as a matter of course, witness Edmund in "Lear" and John in "Much Ado about Nothing," and no degree of contempt is too high for a "hedge-born swain That doth presume to boast of gentle blood."

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Thus, 'O Lentulus,' says the poet, speaking figuratively to some nobleman, 'it is that thou art married; but it is some musician's or fencer's bastard that is born under thy lordly canopie.

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( R. ) That drop of blood that's calm proclaims me bastard; Cries cuckold to my father; brands the harlot Even here, between the chaste unsmirched brow Of my true mother.

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A few Kaffirs talking a bastard Dutch and an old Harrovian, who stutters like an excited soda water syphon, completes the Babel in my immediate neighbourhood.

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There lacked not shrugging of shoulders at this imputed parentage and Florence revolted against receiving a bastard and a mulatto as its sovereign.

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The opening words of this ungracious speech caused my spirit to leap within me, for Duke Alessandro far from confiding to me or to any one else the secret that he was the child of a mulattress, and in all probability the bastard of the Pope, had persistently maintained that he was the legitimatised son and rightful heir of the last Duke of Florence, and his mother a princess whose name would in time be divulged, and this notwithstanding that his dark complexion proclaimed him of Oriental race.

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Aye, bastard sons, and the coyote is their mother.

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They were pedantic disciples who united with all the affectations of the Italian style a certain German coarseness, and the outcome was a bastard style inferior to the earlier schools--childish, stiff, and crude in color, with no sense of light and shade.

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Surely, my father, 'tis a glorious spring Drawn from the heaven-kissed summits whence we come; And shall we, then, defile our noble blood By mixture with this upstart tyranny Which fouls the Hellenic pureness of its source In countless bastard channels?

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Dulness may be imagined a Deity or Idol, to be worshipped by bad writers; but then some sort of disguise is requisite, some bastard virtue must be bestowed, to give this Idol a plausible appearance.

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"But is there no bastard virtue in the mighty Mother of so numerous an offspring, which she takes care to bring to the ears of kings?

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Is there no bastard virtue in the peace of which the poet makes her the author?--'The goddess bade Britannia sleep.'

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Is she not celebrated for her beauty, another bastard virtue?--'Fate this _fair_ idol gave.'

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One bastard virtue the poet hath given her; which, with these sort of critics, might make her pass for a wit; and that is, her love of a joke--'For gentle Dulness ever loved a joke.'

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Her delight in games and races is another of her bastard virtues, which would captivate her nobler sons, and draw them to her shrine; not to speak of her indulgence to young travellers, whom she accompanies as Minerva did Telemachus.

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But of all her bastard virtues, her FREE-THINKING, the virtue which she anxiously propagates amongst her followers in the Fourth Book, might, one would think, have been sufficient to have covered the poet from this censure.

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Fair held our breeze behind us-'twas warm with lovers' prayers: We'd stolen wills for ballast and a crew of missing heirs; They shipped as Able Bastards till the Wicked Nurse confessed, And they worked the old three-decker to the Islands of the Blest.

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This worthy peer (who, as a Cromwellian, exiled himself after the Restoration) had, like others of the godly, a bastard son, enjoying at "_temp._ of tale" the remarkable courtesy title of "Lord David Dirry-Moir," but called by the rabble, with whom his sporting tastes make him a great favourite, "Tom-Jim-Jack."

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The intense absurdity of his personified wapentakes, of his Tom-Jim-Jacks, of his courtesy-title bastards, he deliberately declined (as in the anecdote above given) to see.

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The "interior" business was largely followed and elaborated; it might be argued--though the contention would have to be strictly limited and freely provisoed--that Naturalism in general--as the "Rougon-Macquart" scheme certainly was in particular--was a sort of bastard of the _Comédie_.

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The Red Bastard is himself almost a giant; but the Saracen is a fiend, and though it seems that in this case the Devil _can_ be dead, he can, it seems also, only be killed at Poitiers in his original tomb.

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As for the argument that as Naturalism is opposed to Romance and Classicalism is opposed to Romance, _therefore_ Naturalism is Classical--this is undoubtedly a very common form of bastard syllogism, but to labour at proving its bastardy would be somewhat ridiculous.

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1._ For he is but a bastard to the time That doth not smack of observation.

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2._ Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards; their worthiest captains, best wits, greatest scholars, bravest spirits in all our annals, have been base [born].

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Line 707._ And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons.

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_The Bastard.

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_Anacreontic._ Where bastard Freedom waves The fustian flag in mockery over slaves.

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Stanza 39._ That soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth.

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Bastard Freedom waves her flag, 518.

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Bastards, ancient families, 190. live like nature's, 246.

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Freedom, bastard, 518. bounds of, wider yet, 623. fail, what avail if, 601. fetter the step of, 596. from her mountain height, 573. has a thousand charms, 414. idea of, 639. in my love, if I have, 260. in that, bold, 487. is its child, 460. leaning on her spear, 637. new birth of, 622. of religion of the press, 435. only deals the blow, for, 459. ring from mountain-side, let, 619. shall awhile repair, 390. shrieked as Kosciusko fell, 513. to the free, 622. to the slave, 622. to worship God, 570. where wealth and, reign, 394. whose service is perfect, 851. yet thy banner torn, 546.

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Latin and Greek, speaks, 210. names, all their botany, 599. or in Greek, must come in, 220. small, and less Greek, 179. soft bastard, 554. was no more difficile, 210.

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Nature's bastards not her sons, 246. chief masterpiece, 279. cockloft is empty, 222. copy is not eterne, 121. daily food, human, 474. end of language is declined, 310. evening comment, 483.

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Soft answer turneth away wrath, 826. as her clime, 554. as silk remains, 313. as young and gay as soft, 308. bastard Latin, 554. eyes looked love, 542. her voice was ever, 149. impeachment, own the, 441. is the music that would charm, 485. is the strain when zephyr blows, 324. moves the dipping oar, 674. muse, nature's, 89. silken primrose, 251. stillness and the night, 65. the music of those village bells, 422. the zephyr blows, 383. were those lips that bled, 38.

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Time, age and body of the, 137. all in good, 791. already of old, 830. ambles withal, 70. and age, his youth 'gainst, 24. and space, through, 416. and the hour runs, 116. annihilate but space and, 330. assuages sorrow, 704. backward and abysm of, 42. bank and shoal of, 118. bastard to the, 78. be good whilst thou hast, 751. be ruled by, 724. beholds no name so blest, 345. between two eternities, gleam of, 580. bounds of place and, 382. break the legs of, 635. breathing, of day with me, 145. brief chronicles of the, 134. brings increase to her truth, 378. by, subdued, 671. by the forelock, take, 30. cannot benumb, some feelings, 545. chinks that, has made, 221, 456. choose thine own, 433. coming, there 's a good, 493, 653. common arbitrator, 102. compliments are loss of, 387. count, by heart-throbs, 654. creeping hours of, 68. curious, requires, 168. do not squander, 360. elaborately thrown away, 311. enough, take, 351. enough to find a world, 656. even such is, 26. every man be master of his, 121. flies death urges, 307. footprints on the sands of, 612. for all things, 791. for courtesy, always, 603. for supper, the proper, 763. forefinger of all, 630. foremost files of, 626. frozen round periods of, 228. gallops withal, 70. gives to her mind, 378. had been, as if the moving, 468. hair's-breadth of, 750. has laid his hand gently, 617. has not cropt the roses, 378. has taught us a lesson, 723. hath to silver turned, his silver locks, 24. he that lacks, 594. his, is forever, 260. history hath triumphed over, 26. how a man should kill, 772. how small a part of, they share, 220.

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They must not let this colony become a bastard race the same as the Cape Colony.

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Bastard Dory and John Dory (q.v.

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an Australian fish, Cyttus australis , family Cyttidae ; the Australian representative of Zeus faber , the European "John Dory," and its close relative, is called Bastard Dorey in New Zealand, and also Boar-fish (q.v.).

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It is known at Melbourne by the names of 'Boar-fish' or 'Bastard Dorey' (fig.

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Bastard Trumpeter , n .

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'Royal Commission on the Fisheries of Tasmania,' p. 35: "The bastard trumpeter ( Latris Forsteri )...Scarcely inferior to the real trumpeter, and superior to it in abundance all the year round, comes the bastard trumpeter...

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They must be referred to the Latris Forsteri of Count Castelnau, which appears to be the bastard trumpeter of Victorian waters."

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Fl., called also Bastard Sycamore.

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This name is sometimes applied to it, and it is also called Bastard Dory (q.v.).

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It is sometimes called bastard gidgee in Western New South Wales.

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The following table is compiled from Maiden:-- Bastard Box-- Eucalyptus goniocalyx , F. v. M.; E. largiflorens , F. v. M. (called also Cooburn ); E. longifolia , Link.

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John Oxley, 'Two Expeditions,' p. 126: "The country continued open forest land for about three miles, the cypress and the bastard-box being the prevailing timber; of the former many were useful trees."

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The following are the trees to which the name is applied in Australia:-- Bastard Pencil Cedar-- Dysoxylon rfum , Benth., N.O.

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Rhamnaceae , which are called respectively Yellow and Bastard Dogwood .

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Rhamn/ac?/eae , is also called Dogwood , or Bastard Dogwood .

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Gum ) The names of the various Australian Gum-trees are as follows-- Apple Gum, or Apple-scented Gum-- Eucalyptus stuartiana , F. v. M. Bastard G.-- Eucalyptus gunnii , Hook.

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Bastard Blue G.-- E. leucoxylon , F. v. M. (South Australia).

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Bastard White G.-- E. gunnii , Hook.

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The name Bastard-Jarrah is given to E. botryoides , Smith, which bears many other names.

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It is the Blue-Gum of New South Wales coast-districts, the Bastard-Mahogany of Gippsland and New South Wales, and also Swamp Mahogany in Victoria and New South Wales, and occasionally Woolly-Butt .

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Others call C. australis the Bastard Dorey (q.v.

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Called also 'Brown Box,' 'Grey Box,' and 'Bastard Box.'

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Myrtaceae ; called also White Box, Red Box, Brush Box, Bastard Box, Brisbane Box.

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Bastard Mahogany, or Gippsland Mahogany, or Swamp Mahogany, Eucalyptus botryoides , Smith, N.O.

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