"Bushed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... tail bushed out like a bolster, his eyes fairly bulged, and he jumped clean off the floor. In front of him was the holly which a quick puff of air through the open door had blown scratching unevenly over the ...
— The Book of the Cat • Mabel Humphrey and Elizabeth Fearne Bonsall
... trailed us. Two will ride back to the railroad and report. I wonder how many of them are bushed along the trail between ...
— Jim Waring of Sonora-Town - Tang of Life • Knibbs, Henry Herbert
... they couldn't have been such a short way in as he must be by now. True, he had heard a story of a chap who had gone round and round like a squirrel in a cage not a mile from the outskirts of the scrub. He was "bushed," and found dead. ...
— Queensland Cousins • Eleanor Luisa Haverfield
... his home and to dine with him on the following Sunday at one o'clock. Enclosed was a plan designed to assist me in penetrating the mazes of Tooting. That Sunday was a beautiful day in May, and I wandered down with plenty of time to spare to provide against the danger of being "bushed." But with the aid of Dawson's thoughtful plan I found Primrose Road without difficulty. The hour was then 12.15, and the house deserted. Dawson and his family were at chapel. I had forgotten what I had heard months before of Dawson's ...
— The Lost Naval Papers • Bennet Copplestone
... I went to my garden to get a mess of peas. I had seen, the day before, that they were just ready to pick. How I had lined the ground, planted, hoed, bushed them! The bushes were very fine, —seven feet high, and of good wood. How I had delighted in the growing, the blowing, the podding! What a touching thought it was that they had all podded for me! When I went to pick them, I found the pods all split ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner |
