"Blue Gum" was a "lag," that is, a ticket-of-leave convict, from Australia. From Wordnik.com. [Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864] Reference
A ticket-of-leave was given to each convict who consented to join the Chilean army. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
The colony will soon be overrun with Chinamen, American adventurers, and ticket-of-leave convicts. From Wordnik.com. [Willis the Pilot] Reference
In 1935 he was finally given a much-publicized ticket-of-leave, as parole was called in those days. From Wordnik.com. [National ParoleIts Successes and Its Failures] Reference
Chinese and apt-handed Lascars, of expirees and ticket-of-leave men, of Jews, Turks and other infidels. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Felix] Reference
And really it happened very often that, for a month or so, some ticket-of-leave client, under the strict surveillance of the. From Wordnik.com. [Creatures That Once Were Men, and other stories] Reference
I am not a believer in the craze for "ticket-of-leave men" and "converted prize-fighters" to preach to the poor and the outcast. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary] Reference
Another Mrs Bellfield was not impossible; and what, if instead of being a real captain at all, he should be a returned ticket-of-leave man!. From Wordnik.com. [Can You Forgive Her?] Reference
The province of Victoria not only refused to admit them, but passed a law to prevent any ticket-of-leave men from other provinces from entering her territories. From Wordnik.com. [In Search of the Castaways] Reference
He comes in -- under Sir John -- to light labour, much schoolmaster and chaplain, and the expectation of a ticket-of-leave when a fraction of his time is expired. From Wordnik.com. [Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern] Reference
"I say, look out; he's broke his ticket-of-leave.". From Wordnik.com. [Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02] Reference
One of these convicts, a ticket-of-leave man, named. From Wordnik.com. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life] Reference
John Eardley Wilmot, praying for a ticket-of-leave. From Wordnik.com. [Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde] Reference
He will get a ticket-of-leave almost immediately on landing. From Wordnik.com. [It Is Never Too Late to Mend] Reference
But suppose he comes out on ticket-of-leave, don't they call it?. From Wordnik.com. [Witness to the Deed] Reference
Pentridge was entitled to a ticket-of-leave, he usually chose the. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned] Reference
He got a ticket-of-leave, and never rested till he found out where Nora was. From Wordnik.com. [The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
"Take him away," said she to the truncheon, "and give him his ticket-of-leave.". From Wordnik.com. [The Water-Babies] Reference
The fellow is a ticket-of-leave man, and as likely as not in league with these scoundrels. From Wordnik.com. [A Final Reckoning A Tale of Bush Life in Australia] Reference
The brother went to jail, got out years afterwards on ticket-of-leave, and then died also. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret Passage] Reference
Visions of ticket-of-leave men, prowling about his premises, haunted him by day and by night. From Wordnik.com. [The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed] Reference
There are ticket-of-leave men from Australia, jail-birds from the penitentiaries of the States. From Wordnik.com. [The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea] Reference
But Falconer was as well known to the police as if he had a ticket-of-leave, and a good deal better. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Falconer] Reference
"That sort of man would get a ticket-of-leave in less than twelve months," replied the philosophic friend. From Wordnik.com. [Charlotte's Inheritance] Reference
Claire reduced to the rank of a tolerated criminal, a ticket-of-leave girl; and the whole movement discredited!. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Disappearing] Reference
Canterbury's daughter will be married in St George's, Hanover Square, to a crossing-sweeper on ticket-of-leave. From Wordnik.com. [The Wisdom of Father Brown] Reference
'What have you got there, Slicer?' said one of them, addressing the third, who looked like a ticket-of-leave man. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Falconer] Reference
"Him -- he's a ticket-of-leave man, and has more money than half of the merchants in Melbourne," replied the cartman. From Wordnik.com. [The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia] Reference
Thus it was possible to obtain a ticket-of-leave in one, two, or two and a-half years, from a sentence of seven, ten years, or life. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Tasmania , Volume II] Reference
At this terrible psychologic moment the police appear to drag him back to prison for failing to report himself as ticket-of-leave man. From Wordnik.com. [Anarchism and Other Essays] Reference
Finally Falder leaves the prison, a broken ticket-of-leave man, the stamp of the convict upon his brow, the iron of misery in his soul. From Wordnik.com. [Anarchism and Other Essays] Reference
Bengal, in a paper read before the Statistical Society some few years ago, spoke of this jail and the ticket-of-leave system as follows. From Wordnik.com. [Prisoners Their Own Warders A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements Established 1825] Reference
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