Brisbanein a sentence
- John Taske, at fifty-six the oldest member of our group, was an anesthesiologist from Brisbane who'd taken up climbing after retiring from the Australian army.† (source)
- Customers from Columbus, Johannesburg and Brisbane all said hello and congratulations.† (source)
- A month later, a call came from Maggie Brisbane, Cedric Gilliam's mother, who was organizing a family visit to Lorton prison.† (source)
- India Versus Australia, 2nd Test At Brisbane Special Cable Viewing In B. C. Gandhi's Room (Pakistanis, Sri Lankans, Bangladeshis, and West Indians welcome, but if you cheer for Australia management reserves the right to eject you.† (source)
- The captain had sufficient bunker fuel to get his ship to Brisbane at her most economical speed, but no further.† (source)
- A few months before, in the late summer, Cedric was visiting his grandmother, Maggie Brisbane.† (source)
- I've got a senior officer, Captain Shaw,in Brisbane.† (source)
- If it goes on like this it should besouth of Brisbane by the beginning of June—just south.† (source)
- And then he said, "I suppose this means that Brisbane's out now.† (source)
- He made signals to all ships to rendezvous with him at Brisbane.† (source)
- Brisbane was two hundred and fifty miles in latitude to the north of their position then.† (source)
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- It read,From: Commanding Officer, U.S. Naval Forces, Brisbane.† (source)
- Regret no communications are now possible with Brisbane.† (source)
- A thirty -three-year-old Australian with carrot-colored hair and the lean build of a marathon runner, Groom was a Brisbane plumber who worked as a guide only occasionally.† (source)
- I began to recognize a similar seriousness of purpose in Lou Kasischke, the lawyer from Bloomfield Hills; in Yasuko Namba, the quiet Japanese woman who ate noodles every morning for breakfast; and in John Taske, the fifty-six-year-old anesthesiologist from Brisbane who took up climbing after retiring from the army.† (source)
- That's only just north of Brisbane.† (source)
- My father is a banker in Brisbane and I speak with an Australian accent.† (source)
- I went down to Brisbane Street to give them a piece of my mind.† (source)
- And I cannot boast, for my father is a banker in Brisbane, and I speak with an Australian accent.† (source)
- "My father, a banker at Brisbane"—being ashamed of him he always talks of him—failed.† (source)
- I do not finick about fearing what people think of "my father a banker at Brisbane" like Louis.† (source)
- And I, who speak with an Australian accent, whose father is a banker in Brisbane, do not fear her as I fear the others.† (source)
- With his Australian accent ("My father, a banker at Brisbane") he would come, I thought, with greater respect to these old ceremonies than I do, who have heard the same lullabies for a thousand years.† (source)
- Thus I expunge certain stains, and erase old defilements; the woman who gave me a flag from the top of the Christmas tree; my accent; beatings and other tortures; the boasting boys; my father, a banker at Brisbane.† (source)
- And in Brisbane, where I went to have a last try, they gave me the name of a lunatic.† (source)
- You remember I told you about my cabby in Brisbane—don't you?† (source)
- Thus, the agent of the New Zealand [Pg121] government in London, a paid officer, is simply the /agent/, but the agents at Brisbane and Adelaide, in Australia, who serve for the glory of it, are /hon. agents/.† (source)
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