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We had been telling each other stories which we had heard or read of bushranging exploits, until we were all as nervous as possible.

From Station Amusements in New Zealand by Barker, Lady (Mary Anne)

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 Lodge, Henry Cabot

‘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 Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)

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 Gaunt, Mary

The Board School was a new invention in England, and in Australia there was quite a lot of bushranging still to come, and the arrival of transported convicts had but recently ceased.

From The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by Dawson, A. J. (Alec John)