bushranger
noun
a person who lives in the bush or woods.
bushranging
-
a word derived from
bushranger.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Mr. Kentish was not to be drawn into a second deliverance on the bushranging career.
From Stingaree by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
God bless me, it isn't possible that these are the two Americans who have been killing and making prisoners of those bushranging villains?
From The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia by James Wells Champney
‘I don’t know, I’m sure; something to do with bushranging, I should imagine—but I really can’t tell you.’
From A Bride from the Bush by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
Yes, it was all along o' a woman Jim Newton was taken—wanted for a bushranging job, over on the Queensland border—that was fifteen years after.
From The Moving Finger A Trotting Christmas Eve at Warwingie Lost! The Loss of the "Vanity" Dick Stanesby's Hutkeeper The Yanyilla Steeplechase A Digger's Christmas by Mary Gaunt
No wonder that a year or two of bushranging spoiled them for civilization.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index by Henry Cabot Lodge
