I was hurrying to catch you before you started, for they said you were off to the diggings before midday.
Then they wandered with one accord to the flat where Cudlip's Rest was situated, and assisted in making the only "pile" which was ever amassed on the diggings of Boulder Creek.
Whenever he comes in from the diggings he goes straight to the Murrays first.
You're off for thediggings now; no more cattle-duffing or wool-pressing for you.
He was one of the first to reach the new gold diggings in the seventies, and he saw the whole development from the early exciting days, on during the mad rush to Deadwood, to the discovery of some of the greatest gold mines in the world.
But the supply from these strange diggings apparently remains practically undiminished.
Tempted by high wages in the north, he had wandered from the neighbourhood of Our Village up to the iron-diggings of Cleveland.
They come from the ironstone diggings beyond Penny Nab--the southern bluff.
As I said, they had nearly reached their diggings when they suddenly disappeared.
The finest prospect I could see in Victoria is the prospect of getting out of it, particularly now that the diggings have spoiled the colony.
Indeed do I," said Peggy; "the diggings are going on as brisk as ever, I suppose?
After I had gone on for some years the diggings broke out, and there was an awful overturn of everything in Melbourne.
The Adelaide men who came across to the diggings used to talk with the greatest enthusiasm about their colony, their farms, their gardens, their houses, their society.
The recent emigration to Australia since the gold-diggings were discovered has been enormous.
Times were changed before I left the colony, for the diggings made a great demand for sheep and cattle to kill; but when I was up the country the waistrie of flesh was sinful to behold.
The diggings that I've read about in print over and over again have all vanished into nothing, and here there are railways running through the bush, with people knowing who you are twenty thousand miles away from home.
The fellows I've read about who went to the diggingsnever had a halfpenny, but they always met with a friendly squatter or tumbled into luck in some way or other.
Five thousand were represented to be on the road from the variousdiggings throughout California.
Every adventurer must have a look at the diggings for himself.
The Flowery Diggings were in full flower; and if they have since failed to realize the expectations that were then formed of them, it must be because the Mammoth lead gave out, or Lady Bryant did not sustain her reputation.
These washings have now become nearly as crowded as the Mormon diggings were when we left them, and immense sums have been made by some of the luckier adventurers amongst the ravines.
We were told there were one or two in the diggings who might be hired, though at a very extravagant rate.
Yet all these men talked of starting off to the diggings in a day or two.
Besides, the diggings are getting overcrowded; the consequence of which is, that we have had several of our pans and baskets stolen.
Among the fresh arrivals at the diggings the native Californians have begun to appear in tolerable numbers.
During the day, there were numerous arrivals from Sutter's Fort; and in my opinion, these diggings will soon be overcrowded.
Several new-comers from the Mormon diggingspassed us to-day, bound further up the Fork.
The deck was packed with Chinese coolies on their way to seek wealth in the diggings at Perak.
He's a perfectly dear friend, but he doesn't care anything really about girls--and he does need somebody to get him out of his antiquities and his dusty old diggings .
I daresay it's a mare's nest and Jack will be found safe and sound at his diggings or off on a lark with some friend or other, but it's well to make sure and you did quite right in coming to me.
In native diggings those hangers on were thick as flies.
He could smuggle her into his diggings at night and then make his arrangements.
Then if nothing turns up I'll just pop out to his diggings in the morning and make sure he's all right.
My friend, McLean there, always knows where my diggings are.
A huge beard and moustache savoured more of the diggings than the deep, and a brown wide-awake with a prodigiously broad brim suggested the backwoods.
Those who had been to the diggings were pretty clearly to be distinguished by the one dark brown earthy hue which pervaded their dress, and such parts of their countenances as their huge tangled beards and whiskers allowed to be visible.
By-the-bye, next year I'm going to set up in diggings at Melchester.
Come along to my diggings and have some tea, and I'll bear all the blame.
A band of miscreants, with a view of obtaining possession of some valuable diggings (lead mines,) which were in the possession of a grocer who lived in that place, murdered him in the open day.
The Indians used to work the diggings to a small extent, bringing the lead which they obtained to exchange with the traders.
Then came his trip by plane with other prisoners to the gold diggings in the Cypress Swamp.
The Martinengos certainly are making a fortune out of these diggingsif this is a sample shipment!
The latter was out at the gold diggings at the time, and the girls fairly lassoed him, bringing him home protesting but helpless.
As they approached the noise became tumultuous, and as they topped a small hill that brought them in full view of the new diggings they saw a sight that they would never forget as long as they lived.
They had visited the new gold diggings and found everybody excited and optimistic, though no gold had been uncovered as yet.
A gentleman who was with me a few days since, just arrived from Victoria, told me that the gold diggings at Bathurst were nearly at an end, and that he did not believe that any more gold would be shipped from Sydney.
At the extreme north of New South Wales, in the district of Moreton Bay, the diggingsare in full work at the several branches of the River Condamine.
Go to my diggings (I mean the studio), get my big box of oils and my easel, and send them on here.
Part of the way to the Diggings (and to Denver) was across a desert, with wood and grass very scanty and miles apart.
The newdiggings did not at first prove themselves, and the camp at Bannack, on Grasshopper Creek, was more prosperous.
These few men at the Gold Creek diggings got large additions from expeditions made up in Denver and bound for Florence, who also were unable to get across the Salmon River mountains.
He took to drink and drifting, and so at last turned up at the Beaverhead diggings in 1863, not much different from many others of the bad folk to be found there.
The diggingsat Gold Creek and Bannack were now eclipsed by the sensational discoveries on the famous Alder Gulch, one of the phenomenal placers of the world, and the most productive ever known in America.
In certain diggings men picked pure gold from the rock crevices with a spoon or a knife point.
A party of ruffians, who called themselves the "Hounds," banded together to run all foreigners out of the rich camps, and to take theirdiggings over for themselves.
Claims" shall mean the personal right of property in a placer mine or diggings during the time for which the grant of such mine or diggings is made.
The diggings around Circle City and in the older places are rich enough to satisfy any ordinary demand, but they have all, or nearly all, been temporarily left for the new fields.
If any person or persons shall discover a new mine and such discovery shall be established to the satisfaction of the gold commissioner, a claim for the bardiggings 750 feet in length may be granted.
During the Fall the news reached the older diggings of the amazing discoveries of gold by these absurd tourists from the South, and from all the country round about came the rush to Klondyke.
She wears what she pleases en route to Juneau or St. Michaels, and when she makes her start for the diggings she lays aside every civilized travelling garb, including shoes and stays, until she comes out.
As in all the gold mining regions, diggings everywhere vary considerably in value.
There is enough in sight to confirm the belief that these new diggings cannot be exhausted in ten years.
That the Canadian Government has the right to prohibit all but British subjects from working these diggings cannot be questioned.
There may be other diggings over this vast area quite as good as the Klondyke diggings.
Dry diggings shall be 100 feet square and shall have placed at each of its four corners a legal post, upon one of which shall be legibly marked the name of the miner and the date upon which the claim was staked.
He began his diggings in the southeast corner of the ruin, excavating the entire east wing from south to north.
Morris' diggings and subsequent small tests have indicated there may be earlier (Developmental Pueblo) remains underlying the main prehistoric complexes.
The worst is, those diggings appear to be all a lottery," remarked Lionel.
He went to the diggings last autumn, and it seems Fred and Sibylla lighted on him at Melbourne.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "diggings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
