Lexicographical Neighbors of Outspanned
Literary usage of Outspanned
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Story of Africa and Its Explorers by Robert Brown (1893)
"The pace at which long TRAVELLERS " outspanned" ON THE SOUTH AFRICAN VELDT. ...
must be frequently broken for the bullocks to be "outspanned" for a feed. ..."
2. Tasmanians in the Transvaal War by John Bufton (1905)
"After scoff, "Stanny" and I slept together, this time under a waggon; too much
frost and dew out in the open. We outspanned all day just across Bier- man's ..."
3. Twenty-Five Years in a Waggon [Sic] by Andrew A. Anderson (1888)
"Left the Tati station at 6.30 am Travelled six miles, and outspanned at a pan
for the day. Plenty of water, wooded country all the way; crossed three bad ..."
4. Twenty-five Years in a Waggon: Sport and Travel in South Africa by Andrew A. Anderson (1888)
"Left the Tati station at 6.30 am Travelled six miles, and outspanned at a pan
for the day. Plenty of water, wooded country all the way; crossed three bad ..."
5. A Narrative of a Visit to the Mauritius and South Africa by James Backhouse (1844)
"In the forenoon we descended to the bank of the Breede or Broad river, and
outspanned during the heat of the day, near the house of a civil Dutchman. ..."
6. A Narrative of a Visit to the Mauritius and South Africa by James Backhouse (1844)
"the Salt River, by the side of which we outspanned at a late hour. ... We outspanned
among thorns, by water in pools, in the course of a periodical ..."
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