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Sentence Examples The village centre is once again the scene of chaos as the roads are being dug up, filled in and tarmaced over. To prevent the clay from becoming adobe brick, she dug in 15 tons of sand, 14 truckloads of composted manure, and 25 large bales of peat moss. Watch kalua pigs dug out of the imu, enjoy fire knife dancers and take in the tastes and music of all Polynesia. The Clean Streets Committee has dug in to bring its neighborhood up to Beacon Hill white-glove standards. He explains that because of the unstable ground on the river flats, holes dug for the foundations kept caving in. He reeked and tears filled her eyes from a mix of his rotten smell and the pain his dirty fingernails were causing as they dug into her cheek. Soldiers put in place barbed wire and razor wire, dug up fields next to the barrier, and widened a water-filled ditch. He frantically dug faster and after several minutes identified a glow as the helmet light. Ditches are often absent, or only dug on one side, while metalling varies in width, depth and design. Both sides dug their heels in, and the album's American release was kicked into the long grass. A communal air-raid shelter had been dug outside the Eleventh Earl public house. A whole spate of lockouts followed, as employers dug in their heels and either dragged out negotiations or terminated them. I cut my akebia almost to the ground and, thinking I had killed it, I dug it up and moved it to an inconspicuous place. I dug into my food, almost wolfed it down, then a sudden thought occurred to me. I recycle our garden waste, old clothes and shoes and even the rubble and soil I dug from the garden when I redeveloped it. The red-faced youth quickly dug into his pocket much to the amusement of the conductor. Her fingers dug expertly into the knotted muscles of my shoulders, pummelled my back, massaged the tension out of my neck. They dug into their pockets, but not one of the well-fed commissars could find a single kopek. The dens were usually dug into embankments within or beneath black spruce that were forming a krummholz of cloned stems. When it is dug up it emits the piercing scream, signalling its discovery to the aliens. Show More Sentences Unfortunately, the graves were dug up, the remains were reinterred, and the road is there now. A hole five metres by four and two metres deep had been dug, along with trenches on either side. He unlocked it and dug through it for a minute, before pulling out a wallet and relocking the drawer. I also dug the amaryllis, which I plant out each summer after their winter show. Before I planted these choice annuals, I dug big holes and amended the soil with plenty of manure. A cricket match had to be cancelled at the last minute after someone dug up part of the cricket square. The ground had to be dug over, dressed with some compost and lastly covered with the topsoil. The Axis of German forces were dug in along two lines, called by the Allies the Oxalic Line and the Pierson Line. I am a monster when it comes to Ropa Vieja, and I was craving it, so when it arrived I dug in. Making a face, Ethan dug into his jacket pockets, producing an astounding array of charms, talismans, herbs, and potions in corked test-tubes. Rather than a fireplace, it boasted a pit dug into the dirt floor, ringed by large rocks. In the past, the old surface was dug up with ear-splitting pneumatic drills and dumped at landfill sites. Sections of the churchyard and a whole path were dug up and stones taken in the last two years in six separate raids. Groups of bulbs such as daffodils that have become overcrowded and have stopped flowering can be dug up and split whilst in leaf. Dens are often established in holes previously dug by antbears, hyenas, and warthogs. Thanks for putting this up, but it does sound like Jordan's trying to lie his way out of the hole he dug with his own mouth. The ditch around Stonehenge would have been dug using animal bones and deer antlers to loosen the underlying chalk. The lurching father suggests a voodoo zombi dug up by some malevolent Pedro loa and set to work in the plantations of Haiti. Union sappers literally dug their way through the minefield using traditional siege warfare techniques. Hence, a deep hole dug in these dumps today can yield three-hundred-year-old tailings that contain excellent mineral specimens. Show More Sentences On either side of a tunnel deep inside the Rock, a series of huge chambers was being dug to accommodate purpose-built ammunition magazines. She grabbed her brush, and sang along, as she dug through her closet for her deep purple backless gown. With that in mind, we dug through our archives for some names that we tabbed as coaches on the rise 10 years ago. Whether or not you dug The Dismemberment Plan, you have to admit that their parting shot is a real lulu. The English troops, mainly archers and foot soldiers, dug in behind wooden stakes between thickly wooded ground. Percolation pits dug along the lengths of the bunds would facilitate recharge of groundwater aquifers. Shallow pools were then dug in low-lying land along the rivers at Sraghmore a mile away and on the winter freezes provided the ice. Trenches are being dug, power stations sandbagged and people have started to carry gas masks around with them. They nodded and she dug in one of the many pockets of her apron until she produced two large suckers, which they took gratefully. The tiny knots of the branch dug into his neck as Merlin sought to find a purchase with his fingers, scrabbling against the oily branch. During the day, Team Cobra dug foxholes, strung wire, and filled sandbags, because site defense is never complete. So I dug around and came across this rather neat summary of the story and apparently it is still there! The grave was then dug, if this had not already been done, and sanctified by a priest with holy water and incense. The jagged edges dug into his fingers and palm, but the pain didn't compare with the agonizing rip of his heart splitting in two. Therefore he has dug one small cove in the ice and has passed the night with the corpses of the six dead men. Settlements in other areas of the Brahui region depend on qanat irrigation, a system of tunnels dug between shafts to carry water. Perhaps we should have dug deeper because it's quite apparent now that the whole topic was off limits. As part of these efforts, prisoners dug sand for mortar, quarried building stone and mortar lime, and manufactured more than 1.2 million bricks. I learned later that these boreholes, which were dug by cattle ranchers and reached down 100 meters and more, had lowered the water table. Others are returning from wells dug by humanitarian non-governmental organizations with plastic jerrycans filled with water. Show More Sentences Tap on a freshly dug potato and it feels crisp, like an apple right off the tree. As the doors to the lift opened and we went in, I dug around for my black book. His mount looked beaten coming into the final furlong as Indigo Cat took it up on the rails but dug deep to challenge again. It took forever but soon they had dug three holes and placed the bodies inside before covering them back up. Shrubs and bushes will be used to create the hilltop wetlands by blocking drainage ditches dug by sheep farmers. His nails dug into his palm hard enough to bathe them in scarlet. He soon had enough copper ore dug up to start advertising for teamsters. Following a storm of criticism, Franck dug in on the comparison in two further posts. The board said it believes someone crept down to the dusty roadbed after the last vehicle went by and dug in a mine to catch the next passing vehicle. The company resisted pressure to clean up the lagoon until 1997, when the pond was finally dug up and the soils shipped to a low-level nuclear waste dump in Utah. Having lopped the tree to some extent but not so significantly as to affect its total height, he then dug a trench round the root bole of the tree. The author who dug up that photo in Cooperstown appreciates the epistemological puzzle. When I dug around, I discovered that their creation is surprisingly simple. The Jeep made it's way along the old road, and finally came to a small tented checkpoint where Brad could see soldiers had dug foxholes and set up barriers. I dug out a credit card and stood, wordless, as my sale was rung up. As he dug through the boxes, lo and behold, there was a booklet with his birth certificate. They hid him in a rua-kumara, a store-pit for kumara dug in the ground. And in Italy, the 16th-century body of an old woman was dug up in 2006 with a brick in her mouth. He muttered a quiet malediction, tugged off his gloves, and dug his dagger point into the soft lead that sealed the pane beside the latch in place. They dug, demolished, and dismantled The cathedral brick by brick, looking for the leftovers of Escobar's fortune. Show More Sentences With me tagging along, they dove into a rudimentary, damp shelter they had dug in a wood nearby. In dozens of villages, many cut off from rescuers by quake-induced landslides, relatives desperate to find their loved ones dug through rubble with their bare hands. He dug up those areas and resurfaced them with ground cover or mulch. A variety of ancient silver and jade ware has been seized from the temporary residences of the robbers, who dug tombs late at night and hid the relics in secret places. I have got a plot reserved for myself at the foot of their graves, but I don't like the thought of them being dug up later, splitting up the family. The expedition was short-circuited after they dug into soggy ground between 90 and 100 feet underground. Water for everything, from a cup of tea to buckets-full for the laundry, was hauled 600m from a well by the girls until 16-year-old Bob dug a well closer to the wash house. The children have dug up fossils of ammonites from millions of years ago. It dug its knife-like claws into the soft flesh of her arms and shoulder. Stephen Colbert dug up the clip and had a laugh, sprinkling on some fun with puns to seal the deal. Next to them are strange, knobbly bits of ginger dug from Chinese soil. The base is weighted down with rocks somebody dug out of a yard. Biologists found that the holes where plants had been dug were carefully refilled with soil and covered over again with leaf litter so that no one would be the wiser. The petroleum industry has depicted fracking as a few antiseptic drills dug on peaceful farmland. He dug a small hole in the ground and placed the seed in it. He took a slurp from his schooner and dug his fork into a chunk of fish. Way back during the 2000 Bush-Gore smackdown, I dug around in the data, interviewed undecideds, and called up a passel of experts. For his part, the defendant repeatedly proclaimed his innocence, insisting he had dug deep into his own pockets to bail the church out of financial difficulties. With increase of soil hardness, digging duration in incisors significantly increased, but dried soil mass dug out by the zokors in each bout reduced. I usually dug deep, handing over some coins or a tin of beans. Show More Sentences But they dug into the details, and their audiences expected them to be conversant in details. Her bare feet were lacerated as she dug through the wreckage. King Canute dug peat to keep his people warm through the little ice age. In shambles, pavements once laid with tiles were chaotically dug up. And we're climbing on board the odyssey today with two medical historians who have dug deep into the texts of the ancients to explore ideas from antiquity about the psyche. For years, William Schmidt single-handedly dug a tunnel through a mountain to transport his gold-rush loot. He was on the bridle with me the whole way and he dug in gamely. My lips were chapped, so I dug into my backpack for some lip balm. The south-west stand is dug into the hillside to create a Piranesian undercroft of stairs, lifts and concourses set against a backdrop of living rock. In the first year Manning planted sixteen boxcar loads of rhododendron, mountain laurel, wild ginger, and ferns, all dug from the mountains of Virginia. Sighing as he opened his leather pouch on his waist and dug out a set of lock picks, he expertly selected the right tool for the job and inserted it into the keyhole. On the set, a hole was dug in the middle of a cul-de-sac, surrounded by dilapidated clay houses overlooking a shady canyon. Switchblade yowled in protest and dug his claws into the seat. Occasionally someone climbed over it or crashed through it or dug under it, or made himself a glider and flew through it. Thus are the historiographical trenches dug for the centenary. They dug trenches near the river to redirect the flow of the water. Cammocky butter was a nuisance in Sussex, Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight. In the north children dug up the root and chewed it. But deep water was not secured until 1926, when Corpus Christi dug itself out 21 miles to the sea. But Ireland dug out a gutsy response and applied pressure which resulted in number eight Heaslip diving over in the corner to revive home hopes. In very dry seasons some drinkwater is brought from wells dug in the bed of the river, about half-an hour from the village. Show More Sentences What if my seatmate was a sadistic fatphobe who would lean on our shared armrest just to see me wince in pain as it dug into my hip? In 1831 the bones were dug up and then reburied in a new tomb, which is still there. The ditch was continuous but had been dug in sections, like the ditches of the earlier causewayed enclosures in the area. Long ditches, some many miles in length, were dug with enclosures placed at their ends. Prisoners dug across the width of the altar area in order to dispose of rubble left at the dissolution. Improbably, the excavators found the remains in the first location in which they dug at the car park. The Royalists returned to power in 1660, and they had his corpse dug up, hung in chains, and beheaded. Canals dug for the oil and gas industry also allow storms to move sea water inland, where it damages swamps and marshes. Ampthill Clay was dug from the local area for the maintenance of river banks and Kimmeridge Clay at Roswell Pits for the making of pottery wares. Businessman James Miller Williams dug several wells between 1855 and 1858 before discovering a rich reserve of oil four metres below ground. Also during the 1960s, the Victoria line was dug under central London and, unlike the earlier tubes, the tunnels did not follow the roads above. Immediately south of the wall, a large ditch was dug, with adjoining parallel mounds, one on either side. According to the contemporary chronicler Roger of Howden, Longchamp dug a moat around the castle and tried in vain to fill it from the Thames. He also owns the only backhoe tractor on Elbow Cay, so whenever anyone needs a cistern dug, he's their man. Mining was so effective that during the siege of Margat in 1285 when the garrison were informed a sap was being dug they surrendered. In 2003, the archaeological television programme Time Team dug the Royal Crescent in search of a Roman cemetery and the Fosse Way. It was an apple marshmallow sundae, I recollect. I dug my spoon into it with an assumption of gaiety which I was far from feeling. Southward and in the very center of the plain is La Mesa, hidden in the mesquite and with splendid, typically dug, wells. He dug back in, dragging his knuckles across the keys, and then he held out both arms straight, like a condor in midglide. Eitan marched his men towards Jebel Heitan, where they dug in while receiving supplies of weapons dropped by French aircraft. Show More Sentences A cannonball dug up from a garden in nearby Summerhill Avenue, dating from this time, now rests in Newport Museum. And it was in Pontiac that I dug that Jim Crow man in person, a motherferyer that would cut your throat for looking. As his black, naily fingers dug loose the scaly pig's skin, wandering tears came to the bo'sun 's eyes. In 1923 the current Radboud University Nijmegen was founded and in 1927 a channel was dug between the Waal and Maas rivers. Burgoyne then dug in, but suffered a constant haemorrhage of deserters, and critical supplies were running low. This action was a partial success as it blocked the access, but the Germans dug a new canal around the ships. To obstruct this, the tree was dug up when it died and pieces of it remain in the town museum. Buried ships are occasionally exposed when foundations are dug for new buildings. The slug they dug out of him was a.22. A woman's gun? Or was I being a sexist oinker? She climbed the Red Hill one cold day and dug oose root with which to bring a new luster to her long black hair. However, King Arthur dug up the head, declaring the country would be protected only by his great strength. On the French side, the Grand Canal d'Alsace was dug, which carries a significant part of the river water, and all of the traffic. Thereafter, canals were dug, bends were straightened and groynes were built to prevent the river's channels from migrating or silting up. Further east the 3rd, 4th and 5th armies had dug in from Prosnes to Verdun, secure from frontal attacks. On 13 October, III Corps found German troops dug in along the Meterenbecque. The 10th and 11th Brigades managed to clear the ridge of Germans and by 28 May, the brigades were dug in east of Wytschaete. The basin was linked to the sea by a channel dug through coastal sandbanks secured by two jetties. They were met with heavy machine gun fire from emplacements dug into the overlooking cliffs. Failed communications compounded problems and the forward infantry elements ended up dug in well short of their objective. He rejects Herodotus's claims of Indian gold obtained by ants or dug up by griffins in Scythia. Show More Sentences Sole markings, such as tool marks and flute casts, are groves dug into a sedimentary layer that are preserved. Dens built among tree roots can last for decades, while those dug on the steppes last only several years. In the Eurasian desert regions, foxes may use the burrows of wolves, porcupines and other large mammals, as well as those dug by gerbil colonies. The young are born in a nesting burrow dug by the female, to which she returns once a day for four weeks for them to suckle. Sometimes a small pit is dug and it is possible that in digging, the male releases scent from the interdigital glands on its feet. The lake has no natural outlet, but is drained by a tunnel dug before 1170 and rebuilt several times since. A pen-pusher in a Sixth ave. office said a coal miner is paid well. I asked him if he ever dug coal. Oh no! Archaeologists have discovered large quantities of burnt flints, mounds of timbers and pits dug into the ground. She was once more caulked and repaired in 1527 in a newly dug dock at Portsmouth and her longboat was repaired and trimmed. The British commander Albermale ordered a tunnel to be dug by his sappers so a mine could be planted under the walls of the city's fortress. A deep ditch with a retractable bridge was dug into the chalk to protect the facility from ground attack from the island side. Features dug into the natural subsoil are normally excavated in portions to produce a visible archaeological section for recording. By order of the Crown Prince Frederick, who was an antiquarian, the body was dug up again and sent to the National Museum of Denmark. Determined to recapture the fortress, he ordered trenches dug and a wall breached. Gold is washed out of the sands of the Vitim and the Olyokma, and mammoth tusks have been dug out of the delta. The cattle introduced by the Spanish polluted the water reserves which Native Americans dug in the fields to accumulate rain water. A ditch was dug around the settlement and it was fortified with earth ramparts. Stumps of old longleaf pines are often dug, split into small pieces and sold as kindling for fires. In 1823 Brunel produced a plan for a tunnel between Rotherhithe and Wapping, which would be dug using his new shield. Among the materials that are dug because they are useful, those known as coals are made of earth, and, once set on fire, they burn like charcoal. Show More Sentences Coal seams were exposed where rivers flowed into the lake and was dug by hand off the surface and from tunnels dug into the seam. At its peak in 1949 25,000 miners dug 17 million metric tons of coal from Nova Scotian mines. Soughs were typically dug from their open end near a stream or river back into the hillside beneath the mine to be drained. A prototype of the metro was built and a tunnel was dug underneath the city, but the metro was never built. They also dug coal which was further exploited especially during the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Small amounts of coal were dug during the Middle Ages but wood was plentiful and turf was preferred to coal which was inferior in quality. In the early 19th century, a canal was dug connecting Caldewgate with the sea at Port Carlisle. At times these pits were dug in pairs along the back of the lode and the lode followed underground between them. As he dug, a huge raven circled overhead, mocking him, and encouraging him to dig deeper and deeper. Many valleys have been dug over and scarred, leaving a rich industrial archaeology. Smith had merely dug a shaft, salted the mine with a good grade ore, in order to lure Jeremiah into purchasing. Sandgropers remain under the soil surface and are only seen when soil is worked or dug. The women peeled tamarack bark for tea, dug through the deep snow in hopes of finding a few dried fiddleheads. The town's water supply consisted of three wells, but a new one was being dug to meet demand from the new development. Reporters and webloggers dug up ample evidence of Lott's affinities for Thurmond's views. As with many invasive plants, white campion quickly colonizes disturbed soils, which occasionally might be a newly dug grave. Lost to the sands of time was the Wintu people, but the sands of time can be dug through. Emelia and her father James, 33, from Bussage, near Stroud, dug up the vertebra of the woolly rhino which roamed the area about 50,000 years ago. Nightwatchman James Anyon outlasted them both but when Mitchell Claydon dug his fifth ball of the day in, he could only fend it back. They have to be dug up by hand in the wild and we have the only razor clam plant in Alaska. Show More Sentences He dug slit trenches with them, ate meals with them, kibbitzed with them, dove for cover with them when German planes appeared. The remains had been reinterred in Medicine Hat before being dug up again and taken to the University of Alberta for research purposes. Unlike traditional root cellars which are dug vertically, their cellar is a walk-in style, partially above ground. I've dug it all over and will manure it and rotovate it so it's all ready to start from scratch from January next year. Prepare your soil first, making sure it is weed free and has been well dug or rotovated. A credulity-straining plan is hatched which involves loaded dice, the massive excavator that dug the Chunnel, bedbugs and seismology. For our little botany film on roots, we dug up some runner beans at Cambridge University Botanical Gardens. Courgettes need to be dug up quickly before they turn to marrows, as well as second earlies and maincrop potatoes if the foliage is going yellow. After the frost came, I dug up the mangels and let them harden for a few days before storing them like potatoes in the cellar. This weekend I got out in the garden and dug out weeds, such as scutch grass and dandelions. As an escape route, bootleggers had dug an underground tunnel to get away from the police,'' Thomas said. Snorkelers must swim two lengths of a 60-yard trench dug into a peat bog using a non-recognised swimming stroke. A cat hole, I was told, is a tiny hole dug in the ground cool hikers use as a toilet. But Arsenal dug themselves out of that deep hole, forcing extra-time through Santi Cazorla's sublime free-kick and Laurent Koscielny's scruffier but equally valuable finish. However, due to the ecological importance of peatlands in storing carbon and their rarity, the EU is attempting to protect this habitat by fining Ireland if they are dug up. The worn-out brushes in a dead starter or a short circuit in a sparkless ignition distributor would eventually be revealed to a mechanic who carefully dug through the clues. The heart from the home team was immense. Some of them were out on their feet before the end, but they dug in, throwing themselves in front of shots and crosses, surviving. Other soughs were dug, including one in 1729 to drain the Worsley mines and another from Standish Colliery to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Crooke. On the western side, the section from Liverpool to Newburgh was dug. In the 1950s a new canal was dug to the south of the old summit section. Show More Sentences The muzzle was filled for some inches with hardpack snow, after he had dug that out with his knife, he found the lock frozen up and snow all over the nipple. They dug four large reservoirs in Shandong to regulate water levels, which allowed them to avoid pumping water from local sources and water tables. Many soughs were dug throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. Approximately 200,000 tons of coal were dug at Grand Lake between 1639 and 1887 using surface collection, vertical shafts and the room and pillar system. Stumps thus dug may actually remain a century or more since being cut. In 1428, at the command of Pope Martin V, Wycliffe's remains were dug up, burned, and the ashes cast into the River Swift, which flows through Lutterworth. The stream was temporarily turned aside from its course while the grave was dug wherein the Gothic chief and some of his most precious spoils were interred. Nevertheless, a substantial force dug themselves into a powerful hillfort. In 1885 a tunnel was dug towards the cliff face from the parade grounds. A pit dug into the clay at BC 5 had been filled with burnt clay nodules, charcoal and burnt stones, which had been covered with a large piece of wood. When he arrived many men had already started a revolt against Haakon, who was forced to hide in a hole dug in a pigsty, together with one of his slaves Kark. Wearing a faded shalwar kameez, a traditional dress of baggy pants and a long tunic, the 43-year-old Muhammad was covered in dust from a freshly dug grave. Large numbers of eggs are deposited in holes dug into mud or sand. The dug in defences consisted primarily of infantry and antitank guns. Meanwhile, the Lorried Brigade's two other battalions had moved on Snipe and dug in, only to find out the next day that they were in fact well short of their objective. In the meantime, his forces dug in and waited for the eventual attack by the British Commonwealth forces or the defeat of the Soviet Army at Stalingrad. A second trench was to be dug behind the front line, to shelter the trench garrison and to have easy access to the front line, through covered communication trenches. The pursuit was too slow and by 14 September, the German armies had dug in north of the Aisne and the Allies met trench lines, rather than rearguards. It is, however, quite different to the Must Farm dugouts, which are not only dug out of one trunk, but the smaller, lightweight ones are made of lighter linden trunks. From this bay to the sea, a new canal was dug through the dunes at Velsen. Show More Sentences When I was older I went out on the hillsides and dug the roots of oose, or Amole as the Mexicans call it, which were excellent to use in place of soap. Hinde claimed that in 1799, six soldiers had been dug up near Jeffersonville, Indiana on the Ohio River with breastplates that contained Welsh coat of arms. Had he dug more deeply, had he unearthed more recondite truth, had he used more difficult and ingenious methods, he would not have been understood. Many more artillery pieces had arrived and been dug into batteries. It was buried in rubble excavated from the Hillfield railway tunnels that were dug under Stow Hill in the 1840s and no part of it is currently visible. The German Army retreated north of the Aisne River and dug in there, establishing the beginnings of a static western front that was to last for the next three years. Following the Race to the Sea, both sides dug in along a meandering line of fortified trenches, stretching from the North Sea to the Swiss frontier with France. The Germans were dug into fortified emplacements above the beaches. On 1 March 1978, Chaplin's coffin was dug up and stolen from its grave by two unemployed immigrants, Roman Wardas, from Poland, and Gantcho Ganev, from Bulgaria. A mine leading to the wall would be dug and once the target had been reached, the wooden supports preventing the tunnel from collapsing would be burned. The inner ward was created during Richard the Lionheart's reign, when a moat was dug to the west of the innermost ward, effectively doubling the castle's size. Phosphate nodules, referred to locally as coprolites, were dug in the area surrounding Ely between 1850 and 1890 for use as an agricultural fertiliser. Royalists dug up Cromwell's corpse and gave it a posthumous execution. Deposits containing human bone date from as early as 3000 BC, when the ditch and bank were first dug, and continued for at least another five hundred years. His batrachian lips pursed into a smile, and he dug again into the honey. With a quiet bank holiday afternoon to fill, the Mill yesterday dug out the old magic kit, brushed the cobwebs off its top hat and practiced a few abracadabras. At the start of 2010, all the greens, heavily criticised by the likes of Retief Goosen in the past, were dug up and replaced with colonial bent grass. Echelon was regarded as the Cheveley second string but dug deep to pip hot favourite Cesare in the owners' famous red and white silks, with Blue Ksar back in third. By the 23rd we were dug in on Hill 677, overlooking the Main Supply Route which followed the Kapyong River from the ROK position to the rear echelons. A tunnel was dug through the lake bed, but the plan was a failure. Show More Sentences He made sure to mention that when Miss Essie had dug up the yampies she kept only one for herself, and took all the others to the village shop to give to the villagers. Examples from Classical Literature The grave is not dug until the geomancer has determined the exact spot by means of two sticks and a piece of cord. Questell got the foundation for the sonics lab dug, and began pouring concrete. Medlicott and Milne dug a grave for him, whilst Fairweather and I kept watch. He dug out his laptop, a battered thing held together with band stickers and gaffer tape, and plugged in a wireless card. I fed them in the back yard for a while, but they dug the grass up so that I had to stop it. Acre after acre of the soil wherein lives the honey ant is dug over for this toothsome mite. Shallow wells made by driving iron tubes with well points into the subsoil water are preferable to dug wells. About 1897 the teeth of a mastodon were dug up by a dredge within the village limits of Eau Claire. The ball clay from Poole is dug in the neighbourhood of Wareham, by Mr. Pike. He dug the well and the mummy chamber, he caused the sarcophagus to be carved and the funerary chapel to be built. They were dug from huge poplar logs, squared outside with the broad axe, and adzed within to a smooth finish. Tau dug further into his kit, brought out the vial of white powder with its grainy lumps. Dirty playing cards were dug out and soon there was a real German skat game in full swing. The Spanish infantry, of course, had dug trenches along the beach, and suddenly the air over the holy Moses sung with bullets. He dug a hole and he covered it with branches and leaves and a little grass. He dug about with the pole in the loose earth beyond the doorsill, then drew it back. Then he dug down into his duffel bag under his cot and brought forth a razor. Then we splintered the hot stone by throwing water on it, and dug out the splinters. The maple and buttonball or plane-tree were dug up by the boys in the woods the morning of Arbor Day. When an enemy mine is being dug, a camouflet destroys it before completion. Show More Sentences Here his grave had been already dug, and a black pine coffin lay beside it. She helped me figger up what I would get for catching him, and then she dug out. He sustained himself by grasping a bush of blaeberry plants, and he dug his toes into the soft black peat. There is a place on the road where iron sand is dug, and whence runs a chalybeate spring, which leaves settlings of ochre. Through this an arched way was dug, by which the Indians bore his bod to the grave. When I tuck him up, he grabbed me round the neck and dug his little face into mine. The hole was soon dug and the anchor deposited therein, planks and baulks of timber being laid upon it as before. He dug and planted his own garden, and grew enough potatoes and greenstuff to serve his little family the year round. And chouse poked and scratched and dug up the earth, but not a kitten did he find. He dug out a slide rule and a pencil and pad and sat down with his back to the back of the pilot's seat, under the light. It existed also among the Romans, as proved by the 'cogged' or loaded dice dug up at Herculaneum. Half the gold stolen from the bank is in that gunnysack you have just dug up. After cleaning a spot on her arm, he dug out a needle, and filled it from an ampoule. A fosse, flooded by the waters of the Angara, was dug between the scarp and counterscarp. The cell was a dual cave, dug into the hillside, and in it Hilary had been buried. Firstly, by no means all bronzes which have been dug up, even though from the same excavation, show the layer of cuprous oxide. I am successful in keeping apples for family use in bulk in a cyclone cellar dug in the red rock. We still possess an example of the original type in the Viking ship which was dug up from the burial mound at Gkkstad in Norway. She choked upon an importunate sob and dug nails into the palms of her hands. Find more words! 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