10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SANDY BLIGHT»
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Colonial Adventures and Experiences
SANDY BLIGHT — INSECT PLAGUES — MOKE INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A
SHEPHERD. One terrible plague of Queensland I have alluded to in a former
chapter: it is an affection of the eyes, called, locally, the sandy blight; and is, I
should ...
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Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases ...
Sandy-blight, n. a kind of ophthalmia common in Australia, in which the eye feels
as if full of sand. Called also shortly, Blzglzt. Shakspeare has sana'-olina' of V. II.
ii. 31) ; Launcelot says— “O heavens, this is my true-begotten father! who, ...
Edward Ellis Morris, 2011
3
Kicking Down the Doors: A History of Australian Indigenous ...
We made the film because it was a strong subject and noone else had shown
any interest in it” “THEY USED TO CALL IT SANDY BLIGHT” has been included
in the 1988 films although it was made prior to 1988 but no production date has ...
Brian Syron, Briann Kearney, 2008
4
Windows on Meteorology: Australian Perspective
The condition was also known as 'blight' or 'sandy blight'. The blight was well
established in New South Wales by 1827 when Surgeon Cunningham described
it: An inflammation of the eyes, called the blight, often follows the same wind.
A VISION OF SANDY BLIGHT I'd been humping my back, and crouching and
groaning for an hour or so in the darkest corner of the travellers' hut, tortured by
the demon of sandy blight It was too hot to travel, and there was no one there
except ...
6
A Country in Mind: Memoir with Landscape
After refuelling at Kintore, we were planning to head south, down the Sandy
Blight junction Rd, a dotted line on the map, over 400 kilometres long. Donald
Thomson had used the same road on his 1963 expedition, not long after it had
been ...
7
The Endless Playground: Celebrating Australian Childhood
Stanley Drummond ... saw the need to bring [help to] children who had sandy
blight due to the continuous dusts of the inland, and crippled children whose
parents couldn't afford to have any treatment (or, rather, accepted the fact that ...
that ...
8
A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
Nickname for men surnamed Brown: see NICKNAMES, in Appendix. sandy blight
. 'Name given to trachoma or any kind of conjunctivitis, when the eyes smart as
though filled with sand' (Wilkes): Aus. coll., since mid-C19; by 1940, Standard ...
9
On the Track: Easyread Edition
A Vision of Sandy Blight *** I'd been humping my back, and crouching and
groaning for an hour or so in the darkest corner of the travellers' hut, tortured by
the demon of sandy blight. It was too hot to travel, and there was no one there
except ...
10
Australian Crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)
Ehrenberg Range, 50 mi E of Sandy Blight Junction, 6 iv 1963 (Chinnick) 3 9 anc.
3 mi NW of Mt. Doreen HS, 10 iv 1963 (Chinnick) 1 9 anc. 13 km NE of Andado
HS, 27 ix 1972 (Key) 1 9 2juv anc. 37 mi SSW Sandy Blight Junction, 31 iii 1963 ...
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SANDY BLIGHT»
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sandy blight is used in the context of the following news items.
Silver linings for Portage Peewee 3
Front (L-R): Triston Myran, Cole Blight; Middle (seated L-R): Clay McKay, ... Matt Boychuk, Joel Simpson; Coaches: Sandy Blight, Darryl Flett, Trent Simpson. «Portage Daily Graphic, Feb 14»
At the car wash
Portage Emergency Services firefighters Sandy Blight and Tyler Lee hose down Vanessa Taylor's Ford Expedition for charity Saturday in front of the Portage ... «Portage Daily Graphic, Sep 13»
Sir Joh 'expelled' Fred Hollows
Sandy blight is a colloquial name for trachoma, an eye disease endemic in the indigenous population before the arrival of Europeans, noted by William Dampier ... «Brisbane Times, Dec 08»
