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Example sentences for "fossicker"

Lexicographically close words:
fossa; fossae; fosse; fossero; fosses; fossicking; fossil; fossile; fossiles; fossiliferous
  1. A shout of derision came from the two men, and was echoed up and down the creek as each fossicker turned round to enjoy the spectacle of a "jump" at the outset of the field.

  2. We had heard that, on this same field, years after its total abandonment, a two hundred ounce nugget had been found by a solitary fossicker in a pillar left in an old claim.

  3. A fossicker is to the miner as is the gleaner to the reaper; he picks the crevices and pockets of the rocks.

  4. He differs from the fossicker who rifles old workings, or spends his time in trying abandoned washdirt.

  5. We knew a fossicker whose cat used to bring him a bunny nearly every night.

  6. The fossicker had rabbits for breakfast until he got sick of them, and then he used to swap them with a butcher for meat.

  7. And now the fossicker seems to see a vision of the future.

  8. The fossicker falls on his knees in the mud and clay at the bottom of the drive, and prays Heaven to take his last child ere Nemesis comes for him.

  9. The deck seemed to lurch, and the fossicker fell forward against the face of the drive.

  10. That we worked with a will, the remark made to me by an old fossicker will go to show.

  11. In the same way that a boy delights to stir up a monkey and hear him chatter, the fossicker bent on recreation rouses the old lady to feats of swearing far beyond the scope of most people.

  12. Nevertheless two batteries are working at the present day, and a good find by some old fossicker is not so rare.


  13. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fossicker" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.