Mackellar
Britishnoun
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As Sydney poet Dorothea Mackellar famously wrote in her 1908 poem “My Country,” ours is a sunburnt country “of droughts and flooding rains.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2020
The poet Dorothea Mackellar called Australia "a sunburnt country, a land … of droughts and flooding rains".
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2018
“I look forward to continuing to serve the people of Mackellar as their local member, the job that has always been my first responsibly despite other positions I have held within the parliament.”
From The Guardian ● Aug. 2, 2015
Australia, the land poet Dorothea Mackellar dubbed "a sunburnt country," suffered a torturous drought from the late 1990s through 2012.
From US News ● May 25, 2015
I remained in suspense, as became one of my cloth; but Mr. Mackellar’s docket here has finally opened my eyes—I do not think, Mr. Mackellar, that you and I will give him that much rope.”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. XII (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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