The small mule panted from the long desperate climb, his plump sides filling and cavingas he drank in the sharp evening air.
With a groan the Chinese staggered back against the shop window, caving in a pane with his elbow.
But he never renewed his attempts on the virtue of Mrs. Herrets, and when next we heard of him he was in the mines of Bathney, where he was killed by the caving in of a shaft.
After a day's digging, you will find, that to prevent the earth from caving in and burying you up, timber is wanting.
On a convex shore, where the water is shoal, the levee has been carried along the river edge as near as possible, as there is no danger, under such conditions, of a caving bank.
Where the bank is liable to give way, the levees are placed further back, and where a break in the levee itself has occurred from the caving of the bank, loops are made, joining the two broken parts.
The banks begancaving near the levee in Madison Parish Front, compelling the erection of a new levee in the rear of the old one.
A frame or wall round the mouth of a well; also, a frame within a well to prevent the earth caving in.
A pit or hole sunk into the earth to such a depth as to reach a supply of water, generally of a cylindrical form, and often walled with stone or bricks to prevent the earth from caving in.
A man who came with Brother Fuller told me, after supper, that he had heard that one of my sons had been killed at Santa Clara, by the caving in of a bank of earth, and he thought it was Lyman.
While I was making an effort to save some property near the caving bank of the stream, the ground on which I stood suddenly slid into the water, about twenty feet below, and took me with it.
Twice during that time I barely escaped being buried about 100 feet under ground, by the caving in of the earth.
If the well is to be anything more than a water-pit, it is dug as deep as can be done without danger of caving in, and then the brick lining is let down from above.
Over the caving well the well-sweep stuck awry, marking a place of danger.
To get away from the sound of it all we wandered down the stream to where the banks of soft, caving earth on the farther side were higher than a man's head, and their shadow hid the current.
He had often heard of mines caving in as the result of a loud report, and of the vibrations from shouts closing the entrance to caves.
Continual caving of the walls compels the river to spend most of its time and energy in breaking up this debris and carrying it forward to the sea.
The river not only carried away all the material worn from the bottom, but the thousandfold more that tumbled into it from the ever-caving walls.
As soon as he was able to collect his senses he glanced toward the shaft where the lumber skip went down into the mine to carry the timber for the bull gang, the timber used in shoring up the levels to keep them from caving in.
Many had been cut off by the caving in of the roofs of the levels and drifts, while others, having been overcome by smoke, had fallen unconscious, some never to rise again.
The powder house has blown up and the mine is caving in!
Towards the north several breaches could be seen in the ramparts, due probably to a caving in of immense masses accumulated on the summit of the precipitous walls.
In some of these places a single mis-step, or the caving in of a foot-hold would have sent the unfortunate traveler many hundred feet headlong to certain destruction.
As we emerged from the hilly country the soil, for the first time, seemed to be thick and black wherever it was exposed to our eye by the caving in of the banks; and grass, always good, now became really luxuriant for any climate.
Owing to the great demand for coal, they did not take time to properly timber their mine, and the tunnels were caving in all the time--I am safe in saying that there was an average of three men killed there every week.
He was covered with the wire that is used to keep our trenches from caving in, and it was an awful job getting the wire and dirt off.
A mattress is put against the cavingbanks which prevents the alluvial land caving into the river which forms the sand bars below.
Then his legs flew in the caving sand and the young ant struck his blades in it to hold the little he could gain.
The crowd began caving at the edge and jamming at the centre.
Hour after hour the ice, went churning past, and through it all came the intermittent echo of the caving glaciers ahead of them.
The soft shores of alluvium were constantlycaving and falling into the river, bringing down tons of earth and tall forest-trees.
The trees were plated with silver and gold, and the sweep of the caving bend was a dark shadow against which the river current swept with ceaseless attack.
Even each government light began to have characteristics, and the sky-line of levee, wilderness, sandbar, and caving bank grew more and more defined.
With the wind's help over the stern, Terabon swiftly passed the caving bend and landed in the lee above the young woman's boat.
In Little Cypress Bend, twenty-five miles below where he had left the young woman, he heard the splash and thud of a caving bank, and felt the big rollers from the falling earth twisting and tumbling him about for a third of a mile.
He passed Hickman just before dawn, and toward noon he dropped by New Madrid, and the slumping of high, caving banks pounded in his ears down three miles of changing channel.
They watched the shanty-boats which dropped down the river at intervals, most of them in the main current close to the far bank, and often hardly visible against the mottled background of caving earth, fallen trees, and flickering mirage.
The sandbar was miles long, miles wide; six or seven miles of caving bend was visible below them, part of it over another sandbar that extended out into the river.
Here there was a stretch of caving bank; the earth, undercut by the river current, was lumping off in chunks and slices.
The caving in, in turn, had been mainly caused by the falling of a heavy girder, from the second floor.
The only stairway had been covered by the caving in of the floor, thus closing this avenue of escape.
Old man," whispered the failing invalid, "is it caving yet?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "caving" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
