bushranging
- a word derived from bushranger.
Example Sentences
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He was a terrible fellow, the leader of that bushranging crew.
From Fifty-Two Stories For Girls by Miles, Alfred H. (Alfred Henry)
‘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)
The best of them were drawn from the upper parts of the colony, where habits of bushranging were still in full activity.
From Montcalm and Wolfe by Parkman, Francis
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
One of these valleys plays a leading part in Robbery under Arms, the bushranging hero Starlight having his lair among the rocks.
From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Child-Villiers, Margaret Elizabeth Leigh