| Mrs. Charles Meredith - Tasmania - 1853 - 406 pages
...touches of yellow about the head ; and their general air and expression are extremely piquant and saucy. They are evidently great gossips, perpetually hunting...being none of the purest, we might expect them to bo chary of abuse ; but, apparently, their individual experiences in theft only render them the more... | |
| Anne Wright - 1857 - 384 pages
...air and expression of these miners " was extremely piquant and saucy." "They are," this lady says, " evidently great gossips, perpetually hunting out and...the busiest manner, and uttering their quick sharp cry of 'thief! thief! thief!' Their own morals being none of the purest, we might expect them to be... | |
| English literature - 1857 - 782 pages
...general air and expression of these miners 'was extremely piquant and saucy.' 'They are,' this Ыу says, 'evidently great gossips, perpetually hunting out...the busiest manner, and uttering their quick sharp cry of "thief! thief! thief!" Their own morals being none of the purest, we might expect them to be... | |
| American periodicals - 1857 - 592 pages
...evidently great gossips, perpetually hunting ont and interfering with every bird in the neighborhood, and a whole troop may frequently be seen chasing a...the busiest manner, and uttering their quick sharp cry of 'thief! thief! thief!' Their own morals being none of the purest, we might expect them to be... | |
| English literature - 1857 - 782 pages
...air and expression of these miners ' was extremely piquant and saucy.' 'They are,' this lady says, 'evidently great gossips, perpetually hunting out...may frequently be seen chasing a marauding hawk or egg- stealing crow, flying all round in the busiest manner, and uttering their quick sharp cry of "thief... | |
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