What is "bourke"

Usage examples of "bourke".

Kilmartin that he could muzzle Hynes for the moment because he intended to give Hynes exclusive if the Bourke thing came to anything.

Bogan went pretty free in Bourke after the shearing before last, and in the end he got mixed up in a very ugly-looking business: he was accused of doing two new-chum jackeroos out of their stuff by some sort of confidence trick.

You used Bourke and the firedrakes to save me and Lockram, but you could not break free.

While the written records of his ancient race did not directly instruct or address the matter of mating with other humans, Bourke had verbally cautioned him that females not of Waniand blood themselves sometimes balked in the end and refused to complete the ritual.

Lockram, who shifted his weight and looked from the Ataraxian elder to Bourke, then to the strange Waniand, then back at Preece.

We made our way up to Bourke, crossed by way of Hungerford and the Paroo River, thence to the Barcoo, and so on by easy stages to our destination.

Carol Ashton and Sybil Quade at the wedding of Patricia James and Marcus Bourke at Balmoral Beach and afterwards at the Bathers Pavilion Restaurant at the same location.

We made our way up to Bourke, crossed by way of Hungerford and the Paroo River, thence to the Barcoo, and so on by easy stages to our destination.

We got Bogan aboard and got some clothes on him, and took him ashore at Bourke to the new hospital.

Next day Brummy seemed in high spirits--they were nearing Bourke, where they intended to loaf round the pubs for a week or two.

I got up and walked away, and it hurt me so much that I went over to West Bourke and went to the dogs properly for a fortnight, and lost twenty quid on a game of draughts against a blindfold player.

Watty was considered the most hopeless publican and his customers the hardest crowd of boozers in Bourke.

He was well known in Bourke and to many shearers who came through the great dry scrubs from hundreds of miles round.

Christmas in Bourke, the metropolis of the great pastoral scrubs and plains, five hundred miles west, with the thermometer one-hundred-and-something-scarey in the shade.

It is, however, only fair to say that Bourke must have looked as far for an apter pupil.