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.