The limitation must not be neglected, but the exploitation of the diggings is another affair. From Wordnik.com. [To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative] Reference
Free-and-easies in their 'diggings', when the funds began to fail. From Wordnik.com. [In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses] Reference
"Worse than the diggings are the fires started every year by the panners. From Wordnik.com. [Mail & Guardian Online] Reference
The "diggings" of the kings of Kandy must have been conducted on a most extensive scale. From Wordnik.com. [Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon] Reference
And the produce of the "diggings" would naturally gravitate to El-Badá, the great commercial station upon the. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian — Volume 2] Reference
Some of these "diggings" were extremely rich, but as a whole they were more precarious in results than at the river. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Gen. William T. Sherman — Complete] Reference
"diggings" and furnaces, where both copper and lead ore have been smelted in early times. From Wordnik.com. [A New Guide for Emigrants to the West] Reference
Frank at the diggings, indulged in some muttering, himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Planet Strappers] Reference
Mariposa rivers, the diggings were still yielding a good return. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
But twenty hours later, at the diggings, when Dutch stumbled over. From Wordnik.com. [The Planet Strappers] Reference
The more remote the diggings, so much the greater the excitement. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
We learned from her that she was the only womankind on the 'diggings.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
All the mining of Montana is now confined to the placer or gulch diggings. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
The placer diggings are at their greatest depth here, but exceedingly rich. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
The news spreads that wonderful diggings have been discovered at such a place. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
"Looks as though this were going to be a red letter day around these diggings.". From Wordnik.com. [Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs] Reference
"If he's around these diggings he'd be the very one to engineer some dirty trick.". From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Ranchers in Death Valley or Diamond X and the Poison Mystery] Reference
Now, except in newly opened diggings, the genuine desperado is a thing of the past. From Wordnik.com. [Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography] Reference
Gold Bluff, the miners flocking from all parts of the diggings, to join in the adventure. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
"A couple of the worst scoundrels ever known around these diggings," replied the officer. From Wordnik.com. [The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon or The Hermit of the Cave] Reference
Biven's are larger nuggets, and many diggings at McClellan's yield larger amounts per day. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
"And I'll speak a good word for you when we get to the new diggings," went on the old man. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Treasure Hunter or, Fred Stanley's Trip to Alaska] Reference
On the discovery of the "dry diggings" at Kimberley, the majority of the diggers removed thither. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
If you see any old miners there, at the new diggings, just mention my name, and they'll help you. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Treasure Hunter or, Fred Stanley's Trip to Alaska] Reference
The profits obtained in some cases of extensive deep diggings and hydraulic mining are very great. From Wordnik.com. [Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography] Reference
It contains but two or three huts, no very extensive diggings having as yet been discovered upon it. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
We drove an ox team into the interior with other prospectors doing the same until we came to diggings. From Wordnik.com. [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference
An interesting inscription has been lately brought to light in the diggings on the Athenian Acropolis. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Sabbath up at the diggings; and he's opened my eyes a bit; or, rather, the Lord's opened 'em through him. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Oldfield Lost and Found] Reference
Then the prophet had a vision: the blood of a black sheep must be shed and sprinkled around the diggings. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
Fish River Creeks, and only half that distance from the Topkok diggings, of which we now heard considerable. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman who went to Alaska] Reference
Between ranches, placer-diggings, and small settlements, we now thread our comparatively level way to Sacramento. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
Tanindie during their stay at the diggings, but one or two scenes must be introduced which will further our story. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Oldfield Lost and Found] Reference
From that place men were leaving for the new diggings each day, and it might or might not prove a bona fide strike. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman who went to Alaska] Reference
His only preparation was to sharpen the edges of a diamond-shaped trowel used at the diggings, with a piece of pumice. From Wordnik.com. [The Planet Strappers] Reference
In the shallow diggings the superincumbent earth above the pay-dirt is removed, and the process is called "stripping.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
On learning of the changed condition of affairs the deserting miners hastened back to the diggings in double-quick time. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
In deep diggings a shaft is sunk to the bed-rock, and tunnels are run in every direction, -- and this is called "drifting.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
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