His shaving-machines, stretchers, blockers, pressers, ironers, and sewing-machines substituted mechanism for laborious and slow methods of hand work.
"Inventors"
Philip Gengembre Hubert
It seems likely that a most undesirable class of colonists will forestall the "back blockers" from the west, for to the northward of Eucla rabbits have been seen slowly advancing to the westward.
"Spinifex and Sand Five Years' Pioneering and Exploration in Western Australia"
David W Carnegie
A fine specimen of Greater Britain was Joe Breaden, weighing fifteen stone and standing over six feet, strong and hard, about thirty-five years of age, though, like most back-blockers, prematurely grey, with the keen eye of the hunter or bushman.
"Spinifex and Sand Five Years' Pioneering and Exploration in Western Australia"
David W Carnegie