It is enough that I have bartered youth and happiness and the very power of living for the privilege of grubbing in old county records.
I could have gone on contentedly grubbingthrough my musty, sleepy life here, till death had taken me, if only you had not shown me what life might mean!
Didn't you know there was something better in the world than grubbing after musty old tribes and customs and folk-songs?
Didn't I know there was something better in life than grubbing after musty tribes and customs and folk-songs?
Perhaps grubbing was what she was after," said Jonathan.
There was Christabel Vincent last summer, grubbing over yellow lilies, or something, and I went over into the meadow and got a lovely armful of lilies and brought them in, and no grubbing at all.
Life is apt to be little but sums and grubbing for the youngsters by and by, so let them make the most of their May-days now.
You don’t want to go grubbing along at ten bob a week--or was it tenpence a day?
In savage countries the labour of seeking and digging for water falls principally on the women, who usually make use of a fire-hardened grubbing stick for working a hole in the ground.
The clubs and grubbing sticks of natives are generally fortified in this way.
The provident savage lays by a store merely smoke dried, to consume at his leisure with such tuberous roots or other underground productions as his sable spouse, armed with her sharp pointed grubbing stick, can procure for him.
How, for example, could the habit of grubbing for roots in an animal of the pig tribe so affect its reproductive cells as to ensure the birth of an offspring with callosities on their snouts?
The horn of the rhinoceros, which on Lamarckian principles we must regard as developed by the gradual increase of a callosity formed by grubbingfor roots, does not grow beyond a certain size, however the species may go on grubbing.
The position was a cramping one, and his wet hands slipped upon the crossbar, but he had become accustomed to doing unpleasant things, and it was evident that one could not clear a ranch without grubbing stumps.
Grubbing out a stump in wet weather is a singularly disagreeable task.
On arriving at the ranch they set about grubbing up the stumps and managed to get one big one out during the few hours' daylight that remained, but neither of them were sorry when Miss Oliver called them in to supper.
Their work was rough, and even the women were expected to labor in the fields plowing, grubbing and hauling manure as if they were men.
From this point of view the greater sublimity traditionally attributed to the metaphysical inquiry, the grubbing inquiry, entirely disappears.
Some workmen employed in grubbing an old plantation, for the purpose of raising on its site a modern shrubbery, dug up, in the execution of their task, the mildewed remnants of what seemed to have been once a garment.
Efforts have been made to extend the area available for feeding by grubbing hedges and cultivating pieces of ground hitherto given over to thistles, rushes, and rough grasses.
He took hold of things just as a newborn child might have done; one had to smile at him and leave him to sit there, grubbing about like the child he really was.
He was a little brighter than the ashes that you sit grubbing among, you dirty, black creature!
Pliny tells us that glass was first made by the ancients from the sands of this river, and the numerous specimens of old glass which I found in grubbing bear testimony to the extensive usage of this material in the neighbourhood.
From the village school he went to Marlborough Academy, where by patientgrubbing he fitted himself for Exeter College, Oxford.
The watchful geese have ceased grubbing up the spear-grass, and now stand alert with a forest of necks erect, while an increasing volume of gabbling attests their growing suspicion.
We have recently endeavoured to increase their numbers by grubbing up 300 acres of scrub and cultivating wheat.
Why, Jacko, what are you grubbingup in that ditch?
See how flexible that pointed nose is; how useful in grubbing amongst the closest herbage, or under the surface of the soil.
He's a good fellow--not a mere money-grubbing machine like me.
The neat little shoes and spotless white dress were close beside the poor creature grubbing there in the ground before she knew it, and there they stood still; Daisy was a good deal at a loss how to speak.
The poor cripple moved down a few steps from the house door, and began grubbing with her hands around the roots of a bunch of balsams.
The cripple was in her flowery bit of ground, grubbing around her balsams as usual.
She went up the path and stood beside the cripple, who hearing the gate shut had risen from her grubbing in the earth and sat back looking at who was coming.
To potter about in the past is like grubbing in an ash-heap, and shedding tears over broken bits of china.
You see, he thinks nothing is so delightful as grubbing in libraries and making copies of old parchments, or whatever you call them.
I have had to do so much grubbing among old records--and to read no end of books too, Auntie.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grubbing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: grinding; hardworking; plodding; plugging; straining; striving; struggling; sweating; working
