bushranger
noun
a person who lives in the bush or woods.
bushranging
-
a word derived from
bushranger.
Example Sentences
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Now, our bushranging robber reports that Brand has an outpost of thirty men at a farm on the Ongers River, twelve miles from here, covering the Houwater-Britstown Road.
From On the Heels of De Wet by Lionel James
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 Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers
In fact, the tremendous bushranging sensation had degenerated into something very like a farce.
From The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy by Edward Dyson
The unsparing sacrifice of the robbers captured, gradually terminated the practice of bushranging, and the colony enjoyed a long season of comparative repose.
From The History of Tasmania, Volume I by John West
The prevalence of bushranging, though far less than at an earlier period, induced the midlanders to project a yeomanry corps.
From The History of Tasmania, Volume I by John West
