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Gangs of workmen cleared away the ignoble bricks; the little tenements vanished; a broad space bristling with little garden-walls gaped where they had stood; then the walls vanished; and nothing at all was left but holes where cellars had been; then they raised a hoarding round the whole, and began to dig out the foundation.

Because it took government rescue teams nine hours to arrive there, survivors at first attempted to dig out victims with pickaxes and sledgehammers.

I have actually become quite fascinated by this magazine and was going to dig out the latest issue to report on exactly which babes in bikini tops and pachuco pants were jutting their hips out beside which gleaming, curvaceous, cherried-out 20-ton American car.

At other times I won because I could eventually dig out the desired object from the shelf (no help at the train station).

They occur at heights varying from 10 to 100 feet above the present river-channels, and they are therefore older than the recent gravels by the time required by the river to dig out its own bed to this depth.

Others, like the Fox and the Rodents, dig out dwellings in the earth; even to-day there are regions where Man does not act otherwise, preparing himself a lodging by excavations in the chalk or the tufa.

He thrusts aside all other objects, all other interests, with scorn and impatience, that he may repose on his own being, that he may dig out the treasures of thought contained in it, that he may unfold the precious stores of a mind for ever brooding over itself.

Then, if you will dig out a hole large enough to sink down in the earth one of the water-casks which lie on the beach, I will bring it down with me this afternoon; and then, when it is fixed in the earth in that way, we shall always have the cask full of water for use, and the spring filling it as fast as we empty it.” “I understand,” replied Mr Seagrave; “that shall be our task while you are absent.” “Now, I have nothing more to do than to speak to Juno about dinner,” replied Ready; “and then I’ll just take a mouthful, and be off.” Ready directed Juno to fry some pork in the frying-pan, and then to cut off some slices from the turtle, and cook turtle-steaks for dinner, as well as to warm up the soup which was left; and then, with a biscuit and a piece of beef in his hand, he went down to the boat and set off for the cove.

Ask your father to take the direction of the work while we dig out the boat; that will employ them all inside the house.” “Yes, that will do, Ready.” During breakfast-time, Ready observed that he intended to get the boat out of the sand, and that William should assist him. “And what am I to do, Ready?” said Mr Seagrave. “Why, sir, I think, now that the rains are over, it would not be a bad thing if we were to air bedding, as they say at sea; it is a fine, warm day; and if all the bedding was taken out of the house and well shaken, and then left out to air, it would be a very good job over; for you see, sir, I have thought more than once that the house does smell a little close.” “It will be a very good thing, Ready,” observed Mrs Seagrave; “and, at the same time, Juno and I will give the house a thorough cleaning and sweeping.” “Had we not better have the canvas screens down, and air them too?” “Yes,” replied Ready; “we had better air everything.

Several of the country people told me, that when boys, they had attempted to dig out the nest, but had scarcely ever succeeded in getting to the end of the passage.

With spades, and shovels, and pitch-forks, and a round of roping, we four set forth to dig out the sheep; and the poor things knew that it was high time.

Such is the history of how the coal which we now dig out of the depths of the earth once grew as beautiful plants on the surface.

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