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Brisbane
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  • He made signals to all ships to rendezvous with him at Brisbane.†   (source)
  • If it goes on like this it should besouth of Brisbane by the beginning of June—just south.†   (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)
  • "My father, a banker at Brisbane"—being ashamed of him he always talks of him—failed.†   (source)
  • And I cannot boast, for my father is a banker in Brisbane, and I speak with an Australian accent.†   (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.†   (source)
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