"Digging up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... road at all times and seasons, gathering sacksful of dandelions in spring, digging up fern roots and cowslip mars for sale, cutting briars for standard roses, gathering water-cresses and mushrooms, and in the winter ...
— Nature Near London • Richard Jefferies
... of annoyance from the manner in which this {434} absurd system was carried out; for two years afterwards we find that another proclamation was published by the King, notifying, "that the practice of making saltpetre in England by digging up the floors of dwelling-houses, &c. &c., tended too much to the grievance of his loving subjects ... that notwithstanding all the trouble, not one third part of the saltpetre required could be furnished." ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 183, April 30, 1853 • Various
... quantities of this gold were carried out by night and buried in huge pots,—as much as 5000 louis d'ors (pounds) in one pot,—to be dug up after the raiders had departed. Naturally, as raids grew frequent, men sometimes made the mistake of digging up other men's pots, and one officer lost his reputation over it. All his knowledge of the outside world, of politics, of religion, the Acadian farmer obtained from his parish priest; and the word of ...
— Canada: the Empire of the North - Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom • Agnes C. Laut
... "While we were digging up frog ponds looking for you," he scolded, "here you had set yourself up in one of the ...
— Dorothy Dale's Camping Days • Margaret Penrose
... that the treasure lies either in the Bay, or close on shore; if so, we have relieved ourselves from digging up the entire Point." ...
— In Her Own Right • John Reed Scott
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