parin's

Updated: June 30, 2025

I say to you this is the hardest and cruellest country ever created, and a man like me's no more good here than the muck the parin's and stale fishguts and other leavin's that knocks about a harbour and washes against the walls. I'll tell you the only use I'll have been here, doctor, when my end comes: I'll dung some bit o' land for 'em with my moulder and rot. That's all.

Henry Handel Richardson - Australia Felix

"And ain't it interestin' to reflect," he goes on, "that if all the finger-nail parin's of the human race for one year was to be collected and subjected to hydraulic pressure it would equal in size the pyramid of Cheops?"

Stewart Edward White - Arizona Nights