bushranger
noun
a person who lives in the bush or woods.
bushranging
-
a word derived from
bushranger.
Example Sentences
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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 A. J. (Alec John) Dawson
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
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
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
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 Francis Parkman
