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Sturt   Listen
noun
Sturt  n.  
1.
Disturbance; annoyance; care. (Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.) "Sturt and care."
2.
(Mining) A bargain in tribute mining by which the tributor profits.






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"Sturt" Quotes from Famous Books



... lived a life of sturt and strife; I die by treacherie: It burns my heart I must depart ...
— Lyra Heroica - A Book of Verse for Boys • Various

... river. Immediately below the junction of the Gwydir (which is in latitude 29 degrees 30 minutes 27 seconds, longitude 148 degrees 13 minutes 20 seconds) the course of the river continues southward of west, directly towards where Captain Sturt discovered the River Darling; and I could no longer doubt that this was the same river. I therefore returned to the party, determined to explore the country ...
— Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia, Complete • Charles Sturt

... seventeenth century, nor any with frontispieces or portraits. In 1723 a portrait of Increase Mather appeared in his Life, which was written by monopolizing Cotton Mather. It was a poor thing, being engraved in London by John Sturt. When Peter Pelham came to Boston about 1725 and started as a portrait engraver, and married the Widow Copley with her thriving tobacco shop, he engraved and published many likenesses of authors and ministers, some of which were bound with their books, others ...
— Customs and Fashions in Old New England • Alice Morse Earle

... where Leichhardt went, Beyond Sturt's Western track, The rolling tide of change has sent Some strange ...
— Saltbush Bill, J.P., and Other Verses • A. B. Paterson

... Raw Hide Bags/—Captain Sturt, when he explored in Australia, took a tank in his cart, which burst, and besides that, he carried casks of water. By these he was enabled to face a desert country with a degree of success to which no traveller before had ever attained. For instance, when returning homewards, the water was ...
— The Art of Travel - Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries • Francis Galton

... to dogs," said the Wheel sleepily.... "The Abbot of Wilton kept the best pack in the county. He enclosed all the Harryngton Woods to Sturt Common. Aluric, a freeman, was dispossessed of his holding. They tried the case at Lewes, but he got no change out of William de Warrenne on the bench. William de Warrenne fined Aluric eight and fourpence for treason, and the Abbot of ...
— Traffics and Discoveries • Rudyard Kipling

... known in Sturt Street and at 'The Corner' as the town clock, and his tongue very much resembled that timepiece, inasmuch as it was always going. He was a very early settler; in fact, so remarkably early that it ...
— Madame Midas • Fergus Hume

... like bumbee's byke— I'll no be handled unleddy like— I winna hae ye, ye worryin' tyke, The road ye came gae 'lang!" He loupit on wi' an awsome snort, He bang'd the fire frae the flinty court; He's aff and awa' in a snorin' sturt, As hard as ...
— Tales from Blackwood, Volume 7 • Various

... presented a wider field for conjecture than the much-debated one of the nature of the interior of Australia. Is it desert, or water, or pasture? inhabited, or destitute alike of animal and vegetable life? The explorations of Captain Sturt, and the journey of Mr. Eyre, would incline us to believe that the country is one vast sterile waste; but the journey of the latter is worth nothing as an attempt to expose the nature of the interior, ...
— The Bushman - Life in a New Country • Edward Wilson Landor



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