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Tasmania   /tˌæzmˈeɪniə/   Listen
Tasmania

noun
1.
An Australian state on the island of Tasmania.
2.
An island off the southeastern coast of Australia.



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"Tasmania" Quotes from Famous Books



... much of the surface of the country and as much of its people as most men, and I have found the pestilent print everywhere, and everywhere have found it influential. For some time past it has been telling blood-curdling stories of the iniquities of prison rule in Tasmania, with the tacit conclusion that nothing but the power of the working classes makes a repetition of these atrocities impossible. It compares the Russian Government with the English, and compares it favourably. ...
— Recollections • David Christie Murray
... those days the finest gentleman was not ashamed to try his luck with the pick and shovel like the labouring man who was his neighbour. If he got an honest labouring man he was lucky, for, my dear, the times were rough, and they did say there were a lot of old hands from Tasmania and the Sydney side on Deadman's in those days, and their room would have been better than their company. But those things didn't concern me much. All I thought of was Paul. He stayed with me all the morning, taking ...
— The Moving Finger • Mary Gaunt


Words linked to "Tasmania" :   Hobart, Australian state, island, Tasmanian, Commonwealth of Australia, Australia


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