Often you know by the stars how long it will be before daylight, and stir up the fire, put on the billy, and get the saddles and packs in order.
She showed me a sore on her arm, and the thought struck me that I would boil some water in the billy and wash her arm with a sponge.
The fire was only alight ten minutes at the most, and you can't cook anything or boil a billy in that time, I know.
Then, after boiling the billy and eating some fearfully tough corned meat, we get into the boat again, hoist our sail, and land at the little township just after dark.
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Accessories to the figure include the twobillyclubs that the character uses.
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Bugs begins his campaign by attacking a guard with his ownbillyclub.
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The painting depicts an itinerant family; a woman with her child on her lap and a man boiling abillyfor tea.
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The lime residue left over from the wet lime process was one of the first true toxic wastes, a material called bluebilly.
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General-purpose pot handles, often called "billy-grips", can be bought separately or may be supplied with a set of billies.
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The police responded with tear gas andbillyclubs.
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Potential female members suppliedbillytea (made in the park) for those men working on construction.
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I'd put it at the top of my rock-a-billycollection, which is pretty good sized.
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The stories were told around the fire while thebillyboiled; the fire and the stories combining to offer a feeling of security.
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Each of the games involves a race over air, water or land in a particular type of vehicle, such as an airplane,billycart or jet board.
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Realistic language examples following this same pattern, known as partial duplications or "modified duplications" include "okey-dokey", "silly-billy", "mumbo-jumbo" and "super-duper" which use the first letter as the point of modification.
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Generally they had a swag (canvas bedroll), a tucker bag (bag for carrying food) and some cooking implements which may have included abillycan (tea pot or stewing pot).
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In the following 6 years, the artist roster grew to encompass a variety of musical genres (punk, indie, rock-a-billy); generally falling under the label alternative rock.
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Banners displayed the overlooker's strap, or thebillyroller.
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The idiom 'puffinbilly' in the third paragraph is informal; the informality gives the passage an easy feel to it, a user-friendly approach.
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