While they were still searching and digging for water, the sky became overcast, thunder and lightning were seen and heard in the distance, and the clouds came rolling in volumes toward them.
I mean that ofdigging large tanks, from which the water can not escape, except by evaporation.
Digging is an operation which is performed upon the things themselves, though it cannot be performed unless I have in my mind the ideas of them.
But it would be a very ridiculous description of diggingthe ground to say that it is putting one idea into another.
The new church, however, I was told had actually proceeded as far as the raising of the timbers; but it was subsequently sold by auction to pay for digging the cellar.
I say, boys, I told you there was a bank of gold up here, and I for one start digging to-day.
She ignored the surface this time through, digging for the deeper memories, and those confirmed Medart's words.
And this time he went deep, digging for everything the man knew instead of only for directions.
It was truly providential, for by digging holes along the border the water would run into them and prove abundant for all, both oxen and men.
Mr. Bennett was aroused and sold his farm, and I felt a change in my Oregon desires and had dreams at might of digging up the yellow dust.
The survey was satisfactory, and we found we could bring the water out high on the flat, so we set to work digging at it, and turned the water in.
Digging his spurs into the sides of his horse, which was already going at the top of his speed, he went by Johnny like the wind, and in a moment was so far away that it was useless to make any further attempts to stop him.
No doubt he had driven the game into its burrow, and was engaged in digging it out.
Prone upon the soft, yielding sand, the Sub endeavoured to obtain a hold by digging his hands into the treacherous shore till the receding mass of water drew him backwards to be again pounded by the next mountain of water.
Look here, muster a party and start digging a trench on the left of that wall of thorn bushes.
Digging both spurs into Czar I flew on, past Fancy, and reached the summit to find the stallion trotting scarce fifty yards ahead of me.
The mysterious stranger was a new sort of miner, digging into the souls of men; Hal would countermine him, and perhaps blow him up.
It rewakened his love of adventure, which digging in a coal-mine had subdued in him.
He stumbled as he ran, and the lower half of his body was pinned fast; the doctor had to come and pump opiates into him, while the rescue crew was digging him loose.
A jolly back-aching job, digging drains and what not.
With the constable perched on the carrier he went on to Trenchard's farm, and found Eves and Templeton digging energetically along the border of a field.
It was while they were digging that Lieutenant Cradock arrived to interrogate them about the conscientious objections of Nahum Noakes.
This occupied them the whole day, and they left for the next the final operation--the digging of earth to stop up the interstices through which the water still flowed away, and the carrying of it in wheelbarrows to its dumping places.
I do not think you ought to kiss me again until we have mentioned this to father," said Ada Struggles, digging the hook more deeply in her fish.
He organized a great digging of wells in India and the planting of trees for shade.
He was like some terrible moral huntsman digging mankind out of the snug burrows in which they had lived hitherto.
Even then, however, the colonists were not secure, for as they went about their business felling trees or digging the ground the savages would shoot at them from the shelter of the surrounding forest.
Some crawled about the meadows and forest, diggingfor roots and gathering herbs.
The Baronet wasdigging at the gold piece with the blade of his knife.
I stood in the path digging my stick into the gravel and undecided.
Giovanni was digging up a buried temple on the northern border of the Punjab.
This morning, as I came along, they were digging the grave for old Adam Duncan, and the bell tolls for him.
Digging potatoes is a pleasant, soothing occupation, but not poetical.
They discussed the sermon and the singing, and the mistake of the sexton in digging the grave in the wrong place, and the large congregation.
It contests the ground inch by inch; and digging it out is very much such labor as eating a piece of choke-cherry pie with the stones all in.
As to the objects of this anxiety, they were upon the veranda of the cottage, quite unconscious of the necessity of digging into their own minds.
I have been digging my potatoes, if anybody cares to know it.
The love of digging in the ground (or of looking on while he pays another to dig) is as sure to come back to him as he is sure, at last, to go under the ground, and stay there.
Laborers were busy spading up the heavy, wet ground, or digging trenches, which instantly filled with water, for the whole country was afloat.
It is a melancholy picture, this disheartened and half-famished band of men quarreling among themselves; the occupation of the half-dozen able men was nursing the sick and digging graves.
The excitement of rigging up the tackle, digging the bait, and the anticipation of great luck!
We've got the evening before us for digging up people.
This was a short and stout crowbar of iron; not one of the long crowbars that farmers use to pry up stones, but a short handy one, such as you would use in digging silver-ore out of the cracks of rocks.
But it did seem to him that we had men nowadays, who could, if they would give their minds to it, manufacture in quantity the same sort of epigrammatic sayings and legends that our scholars were digging out of the Orient.
They gave little barks of joy and thrust their noses into the cold white mass, tossing it high and digging into drifts with broad clumsy paws, then stopping to rush at each other and tumble almost out of sight in their play.
Soon he was dreaming that he was digging travellers from the snow and asking them, "Won't you please tell me how a dog can save people in a land where there is no snow?
Sometimes," she said, "you will find a white mound, and you must never pass it by without digging to see if any one is under it.
It showed a St. Bernard dog digging a man from the snow, and last night I recognized the picture in that painting which hangs over the fireplace in the refectory.
He made no sign to help them, but suddenly Prince Jan gave a sharp bark and thrust his nose deeply into the snow, where he began diggingas fast as he could.
He was still digginglike a woodchuck when Rowdy's voice reached him: "What are you trying to do?
If there had been an avalanche over the mouth of the cave their chances for digging out were small, indeed.
So interested did he become in digging through the bank that filled the cave entrance that he did not pay much attention to where he flung the snow behind him.
Many years afterwards, digging near his habitation, the workmen found a human skull; and it was supposed to be that of the young Frenchman, who was all along supposed to have been murdered by the Captain.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "digging" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
