I could not find, on this my second visit, a trace of those poor bodies which the grave-diggers had just finished hiding out of sight.
No Man's Land" in this sector is not particularly healthy, and grave-diggers are dispensed with.
Thonga, the, of South Africa, grave-diggers not allowed to handle food among the, iii.
Pedi, the, of South Africa, grave-diggers not allowed to handle food among, iii.
Never did money diggers turn up a miser's hoard with more eager delight, than did the savages lay open the treasures of the caches.
And Merula contemptuously kicked the clods which the diggers were throwing up at his feet.
The dead in your houses shall be so many that the grave-diggers shall call to you to throw them out, and shall heap them on carts, yea, to the very necks of the horses, and shall throw them one upon the other and burn them.
On the diamond-fields being discovered, diggers came flocking on to the banks of the Vaal, to open up the mines at Hebron and Klip Drift.
Gold will probably settle the question, as the bulk of the Kaffirs remaining will be crowded out, and a small population of white men will remain and feed the gold-diggers in the Transvaal and beyond.
The road from Melbourne was covered with waggons, with horsemen, with diggers on foot.
When the yields from the alluvial goldfields decreased there was a great demand from the out-of-work diggers and others for land for farming, and the agricultural era began in Australia.
Of course, the family had to try out the new chopper-diggers on land-prawns, and he followed them around with the movie camera.
The Fuzzies were rising, sliding their chopper-diggers under the body of Goldilocks and lifting it on the steel shafts.
He kept on running, but instead of the rifle he had been going for, he collected his movie camera, two of the spare chopper-diggers and some Extee Three.
Then he took the two steel chopper-diggers out of his pocket, and managed to convey the idea that he wanted to trade.
The constabulary at Post Fifteen had made steel chopper-diggers for their Fuzzies, and reported a gratifying abatement of the land-prawn nuisance.
My sons and my son's sons are not alldiggers and fighters.
The diggers and the fighters have dug themselves in with the worms.
Jack heard some of the diggers talking about it, and they said all the tools and provisions and camp things had to be took up on pack-horses.
I remember being frightened by women sobbing (and one or two great grown-up diggers also) that night in that circus.
The public-house people and more diggers drop into the kitchen, as all do within hearing, when Abe sings.
They married on the sly and crept into camp after dark; but the diggers got wind of it and rolled up with gold-dishes, shovels, &c.
No blame of course attaches to the diggers at Olympia.
Beside the boat, with guns cocked and ready, the three men then talked over the war tidings, while thirty yards up the beach the two grave-diggers fell to their task.
Only one of the two impressed grave-diggers came back in the boat that day, for the other was buried where he fell; and the harshness of the ship-jailers increased toward those who remained.
Two of the prisoners were made to act as grave-diggers on these occasions, the guard going merely to superintend.
Most of the gold found its way under a strongly armed escort to the banks in both these towns, but it was well-known that fortunate diggers occasionally travelled together, unarmed, and laden with "dust.
It was in 1863 that I first became an almoner for others, whilst filled with a desire to build a missionhall among the coprolite diggers in Cambridgeshire.
Then some converted stone-diggers pleaded for a blessing.
Were there more water in California, a larger amount of gold would be found, and the diggers would suffer fewer miseries during times of drought.
The greater proportion of Californian gold-diggers is Irish; and, at a distance of about three miles from Weaverville, there lies a little town called Sidney, which is exclusively colonized by these people.
The gold diggers at one time poured by thousands into this unhealthy district; but the mortality amongst them was so rapid that, after the first brief harvest, they were glad to leave it.
The bad feeling between the English diggers and the Chinese has not in the least died out.
Canterbury Province is not only politically divided against itself, but geographically split in twain by the Snowy Range, and the diggers hold the west-coast bush, the old settlers the east-coast plain.
In our voyage down the coast from Nelson, we had brought for The Buller and for Hokitika a cabin full of cut flowers for bouquets, of which the diggers are extremely fond.
In the smaller towns near Placerville, there is still a wide field for the discovery of character as well as gold; but eccentricity among the diggers here seems chiefly to waste itself on food.
The diggers were playing with their glistening knives as diggers only can; the soldiers--their huge sombreros worn loosely on one side--were lounging idly in the sun.
One of the few remaining bits of old Golden City life is to be found in the neighborhood of the "What Cheer House," the resting-place of diggers on their way from the interior to take ship for New York or Europe.
While we hung over the bulwarks watching the bonitos and the whales, the diggers threw "bolas" at the boobies that flew out to us from the blazing rocks, and brought them down screaming upon the decks.
Some diggers in North Queensland are said to have kept bloodhounds for the purpose of hunting Chinamen for sport, as the rowdies of the old country hunt cats with terriers.
You see, our rails wants shifting constantly; for as the diggers clear the dirt they naturally want to get forward or outward, as the case may be, seeing that we cut our steps away to the side.
And will pay us handsomely to repeat it, for then there will be more dirt for the diggers to deal with, and the more there is the sooner the cut will be finished.
Then, while diggers get to work to cut other steps we go deeper again in the centre.
But you can see what happens; these drills get to work where the diggers will follow.
Young Jim Partington tells me he was making a requisition for a rock drill this coming week, as there was a heap of stuff to break down before the diggers could get at it.
At sunset, when all the men have cleared, the shots are fired, and next morning there's loose dirt enough to keep the diggers busy.
There wasn't enough trucks nor locomotives to begin with, and not enough tracks, so these fine diggers wasted half their time; but we've fixed it a while since.
You'll have a couple of steam diggers to operate, besides a concrete mill; for we're putting tons of concrete into our foundations.
From time to time the company halts, and while the wife addresses the sympathising public, the grave-diggers refresh the inner man with a pull at the bottle.
In the Abruzzi a pasteboard figure of the Carnival is carried by four grave-diggers with pipes in their mouths and bottles of wine slung at their shoulder-belts.
When would you advise prospective gold diggers to start by either St. Michael's or Juneau?
Now, even if the diggers arrive in June it may take them weeks or months to locate a desirable claim.
Long years of chronic hunger and wretchedness have well-nigh eradicated what little energy these Diggers ever possessed.
Here at Verdi is a camp of Washoe Indians, who at once showed their superiority to the Diggers by clustering around and examining; the bicycle with great curiosity.
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