But "Mizraim is become merchandise"; and all that is now left of what should have been a treasured and priceless heirloom is but a monument to the shame of that citizen, a banker, who could condemn such a thing to destruction as indifferently as if it had been a cowshed, and to the shame of the municipality which, at any cost, did not prevent it.
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue
I won't locate his farm, for various reasons, beyond saying that there is a solitary blue-gum on the south side of the house and the rudiments of a cowshed on the north.
"Tales from the Veld"
Ernest Glanville
One blue-gum satisfied him, and as for the cowshed he meant to complete it during the century.
"Tales from the Veld"
Ernest Glanville