Lexicographical Neighbors of Sliprails
Literary usage of Sliprails
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. My Australian Girlhood: Sketches and Impressions of Bush Life by Campbell Praed, Rosa Caroline Praed (1902)
"Everything inside and outside the sliprails was blank. But that night, as I lay
in a drugged half-doze, there came the lifting of a curtain, and with it the ..."
2. An Anthology of Australian Verse by Bertram Stevens (1906)
"The night comes down on a restless deck,— Grim cliffs—and—The Open Sea !
THE sliprails AND THE SPUR THE colours of the setting sun Withdrew across the ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... 'Children of the Bush'(1902) ; 'On the Track and over the sliprails' (1905) ; 'When
I was King and Other Stories'; 'Star of Australia. ..."
4. Poetry by Modern Poetry Association (1914)
"... I reach the ocean ever," are perhaps the most distinguished, and of the
others, "They made me foreman of the job" and "Who smashed the sliprails down? ..."
5. The Literature of Roguery by Frank Wadleigh Chandler (1907)
"Sketches of the bush, like Henry Lawson's "When the Billy Boils" (1897) and "On
the Track, and Over the sliprails" (1901), reflect the rough and roguish ..."
6. The Literature of Roguery by Frank Wadleigh Chandler (1907)
"Sketches of the bush, like Henry Lawson's "When the Billy Boils" (1897) and "On
the Track, and Over the sliprails" (1901), reflect the rough and roguish ..."
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