Our virgin continent! how long has she tarried her bridal day! - Joseph Furphy

Pritchard senior died of some unpronounceable scientific term signifying internal haemorrhage of irascibility and malevolence.

... each man, be he king or beggar, is a little world of his own. If he be swayed by a female, as kings and beggars frequently are, he is an extremely little world.

I have just finished writing a full-sized novel; title, Such is Life; scenery, and northern Vic.; temper, democratic; bias, offensively Australian.