Darling Downs

plural noun

1. a plateau in NE Australia, in SE Queensland: a vast agricultural and stock-raising area

Example Sentences

Soon the whole of the Darling Downs was parcelled out into large sheep stations.

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The best rams procurable from the Darling Downs and noted Southern studs rapidly improved the flocks.

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I had descended--from a scrubby table land, the continuation of Darling Downs--into a system of easterly waters.

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The feed was all parched up: the native carrot, which was so green when we passed Darling Downs, was here withered and in seed.

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They spoke a language entirely different from that of the natives of Darling Downs, but "yarrai" still meant water.

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