10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WILD SPANIARD»
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1
Hunting and High Country: Philp Holden's Classic New Zealand ...
But how? Somehow keeping panic at bay, he spotted closer to the razor-backed
ridge the tops of some swordlike leaves; the shifting snow had revealed them.
Wild Spaniard, he realised; a most tenacious growth, common in such country.
2
The lyrics of Horace: done into English rhyme
Thee the wild Spaniard, thee the hordes who roam O'er Scythia's barren steppes,
thee wealthy Ind, And Media sage admire ; the guardian kind Of happy Italy and
sovereign Rome. Thee Nile, who hides his sources from the reach Of man, thee ...
3
Handbook of the New Zealand flora
Surv. Plagianthus betulinus. Wheki, Lindsay. Dicksonia squarrosa. Whinau,
Lindsay. Elceocarpus Hinau. Whi, Col. Juncus maritimus. Whitau, Mantell. Same
as Muka (dressed flax). Wild Irishman. Discaria Toumatou. Wild Spaniard.
Aciphylla.
Joseph Dalton Hooker (sir.), 1867
4
Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases ...
On account of their slender blades terminating in sharp spines the colonists have
named them 'spear-grass,' 'wild Irishman,' and ' wild Spaniard.' ” [This is a little
confused. There are two distinct plants in New Zealand(I) Diszaria z'0zmzal0u,a ...
Edward Ellis Morris, 2011
5
Foot-tracks in New Zealand: Origins, Access Issues and ...
When they stepped on the spiny leaf of a taramea (wild Spaniard) or on the
thorns of a matagouri (wild Irishman), they probably wished they were wearing
the tanned leather of a Northampton shoe factory. Extensive Reliance on Maori
Guides ...
6
The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View ...
In some places a curious thorny plant, by the settlers called Wild Irishman (
Discaria australis), abounds ; whilst in others more moist, the Wild Spaniard (
Aciphylla squarrosa), a sort of spear-grass, raises its formidable chevaux-de-frise
. The root ...
7
My Hand Will Write what My Heart Dictates: The Unsettled ...
For most of the three and a half days'journey it rained, and the way down to the
West Coast was through trackless thick alpine scrub laced with the prickly 'wild
Irishman' and the 'dagger-like spikes' of the 'wild Spaniard', and then along the ...
Frances Porter, Charlotte Macdonald, Tui MacDonald, 1996
8
New Zealand, Its Physical Geography, Geology and Natural ...
On account of their slender blades terminating in sharp spines the colonists have
named them “spear grass”, “wild Irishman”, and “wild Spaniard”. On entering the “
Bush” — as in New Zealand the forest is called — it is again ferns that ...
Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Edward Sauter, 1867
9
Performance and Evolution in the Age of Darwin: Out of the ...
... enhanced through imaginative construction. A cassowary exhibited at around
the same time as the wild Spaniard was promoted as 'the strangest creature in
the Universe, being half a Bird and Beast . . . his head is like a Bird, and so is his
...
Picasso, the wild Spaniard, cares more about emotional drama. He weights his
compositions in the center, uses more black, and draws a more graceful and
lyrical line. Braque, the cultured heir to the belle peinture tradition, is the cool, ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WILD SPANIARD»
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Guiding light
Even his rap about the wild Irishman (matagouri) and wild Spaniard (taramea) scrub that peppers this till-barren glacial terrain hooks us in. But the real ... «The Nelson Mail, Oct 13»
