Example Sentences

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I’m a timber man, you see, and sometimes I take contracts to catch up dangerous ground; and the best men in the world when it comes to that work are these old-country Cousin Jacks.

From Silver and Gold A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp by Coolidge, Dane

Those Cousin Jacks are crazy about what she can do, but I never went to a seeress in my life until after we had that big cave.

From Silver and Gold A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp by Coolidge, Dane

Jack Polwarth and his wife, like all these Cousin Jacks, would swear anything for a Cornishman.

From Nevermore by Bolderwood, Rolf

In 1853 I saw nearly one hundred of them, naked to the waist, sinking shafts for gold on Bendigo, and no Cousin Jacks worked harder.

From The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned by Macfarlane, J.

The highwayman talked with a "Cousin-Jack" accent,—for all Cornishmen are "Cousin Jacks" in the mining country.

From The Cross-Cut by Cooper, Courtney Ryley