Giant
This page groups search-ready records carrying the label “Giant” in public source text or archive coding. It preserves a discovery term without treating the label as proof, a biological category, or a claim that distinct cultural traditions are interchangeable.
- Search-ready records
- 115
- Public sources
- 3
- States / territories
- 7
- Dated span
- 1861–1927
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- giant in Canberra history and legends#3683and shaded gul- j f ——— ITS HISTORY AND LEGENDS 137 lies I speak of are to be found tree-ferns of large growth and picturesque character. Not only are they of unusual height, but their spreading fronds stretch for many…
- giant in Canberra history and legends#3682daring outlaw his father put aside his favourite musket, and he considered that many of the yarns that were circulated about the fellow were without foundation. “Jack the Flogger’s” Fearful Fate. Another remarkable man…
- giant in Australian Legends#3787self that it was really the totem of his father and himself, he said that it must not be again produced so that he could see it. The man who killed it must hide it, and it must be cooked and eaten quite out of sight of…
- giant in Australian Legends#3786that gaze out- ever out--over the great blue expanse of Pacific Sea. These highlands are but foothills, though far-flung, of Australia's Great Dividing Range. They have been pressed to where they are by great weight. It…
- giant in Australian Legends#3785ver the mountain people and he insisted that no more marriages take place between the groups except under special circumstances, and he was obeyed. In time they came to consider themselves a different people and they ca…
- giant in Australian Legends#3784utrid meat, and breaking a part off she tied it to the end of a long stick. This she put into the water close to the big stones, and when it was bristling with clinging yabbies she drew them, clinging to the bait, right…
- giant in Australian Legends#3783deep in a soft place on the opposite bank. There was a charred mark down its whole length, and the bone point was wrenched off. Warmeela lay prone amongst his struggling fish. A brother rushed to him and bore him back t…
- giant in Australian Legends#3782through the great gum-trees like a mighty torrent of water. The huge branches were tossed, and they swayed and crashed amongst one another and were twisted apart and fell. The small twigs snapped and were whirled about…
- giant in Australian Legends#3781ers and the honey-eaters and the diamond sparrows and white-eyes and silver- eyes all had paused to watch him go by. Satin birds and catbirds and parrots sat in the branches or darted through them as he passed under, an…
- giant in Australian Legends#3780in the morning he said "good-bye" to his wife, and having received a sacred stone from the priest for placing in his hair above his ear for good luck, he again crossed through the boronia and leptospermum and bracken un…
- giant in Australian Legends#3779carpet of Randia and tiny wild violets overlaid with the tough and thick-leaved Smilax australis. Its nest was placed on a flat ledge of the biggest rock and it had in it a furry youngster that sat as still as the rock…
- giant in Australian Legends#3778ther. And one morning when the sun shone calmly and clearly down through the blue, and the mountain was purpled, and the lower slopes were deep green and dark with the jungle, and the strip of undulating land that lay b…
- giant in Australian Legends#3777e hair from her head. This he hid, hoping that the next time that the big hunter was angry and roared the hair would be enough to cover, not one woodpecker only, but the whole woodpecker family. It is noticed that woodp…
- giant in Australian Legends#3776well as the fern roots. The grubs were the beautiful white ones that lie in interstices in old logs and are called "nuttoo." The first kangaroo was said to be a great beast and was not innocent of eating small black chi…
- giant in Australian Legends#3775nderful patterns against the brown, but drawing out and contracting, waving like giant battle-plane streamers, now straight as spears, now bent over like millions of boomerangs, now detaching, then adhering; the awe- st…
- giant in Australian Legends#3774is sight, and at once he lost the bee. Indeed, he forgot it. The strangest mass of cloud he had ever seen was there. It was sepia coloured with black edges. It seethed and curled and split. It billowed and curled and br…
- giant in Australian Legends#3773could catch Krubi alone. Many days sped by; several moons came and went. Then the blacks determined to have a corroboree. A good young man had been having private lessons in the things that were taught which Krubi and W…
- giant in Australian Legends#3772gated on the island until they had expiated their sins, when they were allowed to go on. Others failed when climbing the mountain, and there on some barren peak they had to wait, while others remained faithful until rea…
- giant in Australian Legends#3771e to a passage so narrow and jagged that he cut his knees and his forehead. But he kept on. Once he had to pull away a stone or two in order to go further. At last he espied a thin streak of daylight. It came down from…
- giant in Tales of the Dandenongs First Series#2337a spurt she therefore made for a giant gum tree near at hand, thinking that, by dodging behind it, she could double back and reach the house ahead of him. But he was far too swift of foot, and, just as she reached the t…
- giant in Tales of the Dandenongs First Series#2335managed to escape from his grasp. With fear to aid her speed, she turned and ran for the road, hoping that some passer-by might come to her rescue. She had barely started, however, before she realised that he was out-pa…
- giant in Tales of the Dandenongs First Series#2334day so that ye can see her!” * * * * * * * Four years prior to the conversation just recorded Donald McIvor, the baker, had asked Nellie Moir, the waitress at the hotel, to marry him. They had been friends from the day…
- giant in Australian Legends#1914river gave many hours’ shelter from the burning, blazing sun. That side with the easterly aspect was clothed with many myrtles and much Macrozamia? and Chorizema* and bracken fern. Quite a number of the dainty, feathery…
- giant in Australian Legends#1913ravine. The whole season had been droughty, and the water was hardly running at all. Yet there were holes, and great wide holes too, wherein the water was so deep that no one knew of any tree that would reach down to th…
- giant in Australian Legends#1912ck guides, he was returned to the navy, and his end came to him back in his native England, after being entrusted by the British Government with the task of erecting Cleopatra's Needle on the Thames Embankment. Though h…
- giant in Australian Legends#1907who had seen these fairy places and always knew that a continuous stream of spirits passed that way to the Unseen River. Two giant trees grew on the bank, and a tortoise lay athwart it. Up to the time of this happening…
- giant in Tales of the Dandenongs Fourth Series#1466Scott!” “Good-bye! ‘Sunset’” THE boy stood stock still— and listened. He had just imitated a Lyre Bird’s call, and appeared to be waiting for its echo, or a reply. Round about him there was a thick forest. The trees wer…
- giant in Australian Fairy Tales#1407he had, unthinkingly, left the carriage to get some flowers. Now, strewn about the desert over which she had been dragged, they all lay dead! The Prince at once resolved that she should have some others to take their pl…
- giant in Australian Fairy Tales#1406l sound asleep; or, to be quite accurate, all were asleep except the few guards posted at fairly distant intervals along the outer edges of the camp. Their duty was to watch out for any attack by possible enemies, such…
- giant in Australian Fairy Tales#1403ourse of fifteen or twenty minutes— just as the stars began to peep at them through the gently swaying tree tops—they were all sound asleep; or, to be quite accurate, all were asleep except the few guards posted at fair…
- giant in Australian Fairy Tales#1402nts and Giant Killers. It is the world we knew so well when we, too, walked with fearful joy amid its mystic, thrilling groves. To dull and prosaic souls it does not exist, for, lacking imagination, they walk in outer d…
- giant in Steve Brown's Bunyip#2407water and tightened the lashings of the raft as well as he was able. It was a long, dreary night, especially after the moon went down. Fortunately it was warm and fine. Indeed, throughout that trying time of flood, curi…
- giant in Steve Brown's Bunyip#2406elt. It was the first time she had ever used that name when addressing him, and her voice sounded so inexpressibly sweet that, without even glancing at Bridget, he turned and took the girl in his arms and kissed her, a…
- giant in Steve Brown's Bunyip#2405heard before. But he persevered; and, bringing a couple of men from the township fifty miles away, set them to work. Dead Finish was situated at the extreme head of one of those short Australian coastal rivers whose exi…
- giant in Across Australia, volume 1#3073robably, however, inaccessible to horses — about which he discreetly said nothing. The huge masses of Mt. Olga are formed of a coarse conglomerate of younger age than the arkose sandstone of which Ayers Rock is formed.…
- giant in Across Australia, volume 1#3072the solitude and silence on these Lower Steppe lands VOL. I H 98 ACROSS AUSTRALIA ch. v must have been absolutely appalling. In post-Cretaceous times the weathering away of the hard, surface rock, ac- companied by a plu…
- giant in Across Australia, volume 1#3071the chance of securing alive a few specimens of a Crustacean of which we had pre- viously discovered the dried " shells " strewn over the ground in one special spot in the Macdonnell Ranges, four hundred miles away to t…
- giant in Some Everyday Folk and Dawn#3025past the placard advertising Mrs Clay's boats gleamed the highroad, and from where we walked could be seen a now unused old stone milepeg, carved in Roman lettering, its legend differing somewhat from that in modern fig…
- giant in The Last Chance#2616ar of his age, with a white hat turned up with green, green spectacles, and long brown leather gaiters, wore a dog-whistle round his neck, and had all over the air of as resolute a devotee as the gay captain of Huntly B…
- giant in The Last Chance#2615wed upon it; the streams of Ettrick and Gala Water, winding silverly through valley and meadow, before losing themselves in Tweed’s fair river, worthy of all poetic praise. But, truth to tell, they were disappointed wit…
- giant in Bush Studies#2592as swept down with it. Vainly she fought for either bank. She opened her lips to call. The wind made a funnel of her mouth and throat, and a wave of muddy water choked her cry. She struggled desperately, but after a few…
- giant in Bush Studies#2591almon tin sent him careering in a muzzled frenzy, that caused the younger woman’s thick lips to part grinningly till he came too close. The remaining sheep were regularly yarded. His old mate heard him whistle as he did…
- giant in Bush Studies#2590ased. The weird cry from the “Bendy Tree” pierced and conquered the deep throated wind. Then a sweet dream voice whispered “Little Woman!” Soft, strong arms carried her on. Weakness aroused the melting idea that all had…
- giant in In Bad Company#2582eed. In my favoured district there was always a plentiful supply; sometimes, indeed, more than was agreeable or necessary. Kerang was passed; Tragowel skirted; Mount Hope, then in the occupation of Messrs. Griffith and…
- giant in In Bad Company#2581d thy quiet home! 'For, close as bees in countless hive, Like emmet-hosts that tireless strive, Swarmed, toiled, a vast strange crowd; Haggard each face's features seem, Bright, fever-bright, each eye's wild gleam; Nor…
- giant in In Bad Company#2580chaps'll do the same, and not rush into law, like a bull at a gate, and lose your money, because of any second fiddle in the land. As to being a "scab," Delegate Stoate, I'm no more one than you are, perhaps not as much…
- giant in In Bad Company#2579immense area known as Tandara 'run.' From the far horizon came nearer and yet nearer the lines of unladen waggons, with long teams of lagging horses or even bullocks, from twelve to twenty in number. Far from fat and we…
- giant in The Aborigines of Tasmania#1724e eighty-nine inches long and consisting of 565 of these shells {Elenchus hellulus). In the Tasmanian Museum, at Hobart, there are two necklaces ; one of light coloured shells, the other of a dark lustrous green : the l…
- giant in More Australian Legendary Tales#3093much hunting for himself. Nor did he care so much for the flesh of emu and kangaroo as he did for the flesh of men. He used to entice young men to his camp by various devices, and then kill and eat them. At last the Dae…
- giant in More Australian Legendary Tales#3087ese tales." FAIRY TALES FROM THE FAR NORTH. By P. C. AsBjoRNSEN. Translated by H. L. Br/Ekstad. With 94 Illustrations by E. Werekskiold, T. Kittelsen, and H. SiNDiNG. Small 4to (" Wonder Voyages " size), beautifully pri…
- giant in More Australian Legendary Tales#3085then kill and eat them. At last the Daens found out what he was doing. They were very angry, and determined to punish him. "We will kill or cripple him," they said, **so that he, giant though he be, shall be powerless a…
- giant in Australian fairy tales#2367et. For what length of time the Nugget slumbered on this good Christmas Eve will never be known. Certain it is that he suddenly opened his eyes and beheld one of the biggest, and withal one of the ugliest, hulking fello…
- giant in Australian fairy tales#2359ime is up the ten years of the monkey bring the close of the scene, for in these man becomes foolish, gabbers and jabbers without end, and is fit for nothing but——” The elfin paused, and gazed earnestly at the mortal. “…
- giant in Australian fairy tales#2352ed and sought to hush to sleep. And now the view opens upon a magnificent glade, with here and there a huge eucalyptus standing out in bold relief like a grim giant on guard. Here the elfin King and his grotesque retinu…
- giant in Australian fairy tales#2351. What engines made of mortal hands could propel a boat so swiftly and noiselessly as those proud, vigorous swans, who glided onward down the river with the elfin barque and its freight as if the whole thing had been no…
- giant in Australian fairy tales#1488me is Science. What dost thou want with me?” I found the power of speech return to me ere the last words were uttered. “Let me behold some of Nature’s secrets,” I cried eagerly. “Thou art a bold mortal.” “I am earnest.…
- giant in Australian fairy tales#1487ime is up the ten years of the monkey bring the close of the scene, for in these man becomes foolish, gabbers and jabbers without end, and is fit for nothing but——” The elfin paused, and gazed earnestly at the mortal. “…
- giant in Australian fairy tales#1480ed and sought to hush to sleep. And now the view opens upon a magnificent glade, with here and there a huge eucalyptus standing out in bold relief like a grim giant on guard. Here the elfin King and his grotesque retinu…
- giant in Australian fairy tales#1479. What engines made of mortal hands could propel a boat so swiftly and noiselessly as those proud, vigorous swans, who glided onward down the river with the elfin barque and its freight as if the whole thing had been no…
- giant in Australian Tales#2272man, who, in the whitest of shirt sleeves, handed you "Otard" (the brand then in fashion in the Gully), and bid you help yourself, was a shareholder in a rich claim, and could topically speaking, buy and sell you over a…
This collection contains 115 search-ready records. The complete record set remains discoverable through the paginated public record index.