English vocabulary examples in context: aboriginal
Vocabulary in context: aboriginal -- Example 1.
It was at the foot of the cliff, in holes in the rocks, that, lacking wood to build themselves huts, had dwelt long ago the aboriginal inhabitants, who had slings for arms, dried cow-dung for firing, for a god the idol Heil standing in a glade at Dorchester, and for trade the fishing of that false gray coral which the Gauls called _plin_, and the Greeks _isidis plocamos_.
Vocabulary in context: aboriginal -- Example 2.
An athletic aboriginal native, in an attitude that seemed studiedly graceful, was bending to the stout rope, which, attached to either side of the river, served to propel the punt.
