Citations:pull up stumps

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English citations of pull up stumps

  • Finland by Paul Harding, Jennifer Brewer - 2003
    ... destination for Finnish families and school groups, and if you're tired of travelling, it's not a bad place to pull up stumps and relax for a while.
  • Horse Racing Australia: News, Tips & Info
    Trainer Mike Moroney isn't ready to pull up stumps for the winter carnival just yet and is hopeful of another feature success with Rockford Bay at Ipswich.
  • ABC news
    "It's obviously a time of difficulty for many of our suppliers and some have decided it is time to pull up stumps. "
  • The Australian newspaper
    Blackstone is already shaky and there is increasing speculation that TPG and Carlyle will pull up stumps, leaving Wesfarmers as the only full bidder.
  • The Sunday Mail
    This Government is the most mismanaged one that Queensland has ever had and the day they pull up stumps a lot of people will be cheering in the streets.

  • Glutathione S-Transferases: structure, function and clinical implications - by Nico P. E. Vermeulen - 1996
    It took five years to get all this going, at the cost of time spent on research. I decided to pull up stumps and return ...
  • Thomas Coram, Gent. by Gillian Wagner - 2004
    However it was not his age, nor Mrs Coram's health that persuaded him that it would be unwise in the circumstances to pull up stumps and relocate in America ...
  • The Measure of the Universe , by Ellen Larson - 2002
    They told him to pack it in; break camp; pull up stumps.
  • The Virginia Quarterly Review - by University of Virginia - 1925
    The line of least resistance for the Englishman who became an American has been to pull up stumps; the line of least resistance for the Englishman who stayed at home has been to conform.