John rolled the nuggets across the table, and the girls gazed with bated breath at what they believed had been buried forever under the land-slide.
It is exactly as Polly described it, and we picked up a number of nuggets that were found in the dust of ages on the stone floor, and then tried to take scientific observations.
Here and there scattered gold shone out from the stains and pools of wine, and a few wretches groped about picking up stray nuggets or scraping together the saturated gold-dust and hiding it in their garments.
He is coming on with his guide and servant to our diggings on some business; and there's several chaps who know him mean to take that opportunity to send away a lot of nuggets and dust.
When he found himself alone he returned hastily to the desk and pulled out the drawer of portents, rummaging in it until he was fully convinced that the little buckskin bag of nuggets was gone.
He let me pan out the proof for myself; a heaping spoonful of nuggets and grain gold in a few panfuls of the sand.
I had Levy put the spoonful of nuggets in his window, with a placard stating that it was taken out of a bar in the Niquoia.
Part of it you know: how I did what I could to bring the railroad, and how your brother's teaspoonful of nuggets was made to work a devil's miracle to hurry things along when the railroad work was stopped.
At such moments he plunged more recklessly, in one of them taking stock in a gold-dredge company which was to wash nuggets by the wholesale out of the Quadjenai bend, in another buying yet other options in the newest suburb of Mirapolis.
There were two figures in the picture, Brouillard and himself, and Brouillard was tossing the little buckskin sack of gold nuggets into the drawer, where it had lain undisturbed ever since--until now.
Levy won't tell who gave him those nuggets to put in his window.
He sifted the gravel and sand through his fingers slowly, picking out and examining all that might be the precious metal, and as he picked and clawed the rusty, brown nuggets came to light.
I packed out a few samples in my pockets, and I happened to show them as well as one or two of the nuggets to some of these fellows at the club a while back.
I have a thousand pounds' worth of nuggets at least!
To his astonishment, it consisted entirely of beautiful pearls and small nuggets of gold.
Then they each stowed away their wealth of nuggets and pearls, placed in tiny canvas bags inside their small sea-chests.
The savages often found nuggets among the debris that had been overlooked by the white men, and these they dutifully presented to the owners of the claims.
But no thought of ever losing the precious nuggets and pearls that had cost him so much hard work came into the mind of Reginald Grahame, until an event took place which proved that gold may tempt even those we trust the most.
Then small nuggets began to be found, and to these succeeded larger ones; and it was evident to all that a well-lined pocket was found.
It is a pity that we have no edition of Sartor which does justice to its golden nuggets by the simple expedient of sifting out the mass of rubbish in which the gold is hidden.
Machines have also been invented which stamp out little nuggets of gum.
It is these machines which coat the nuggets with snowy sugar.
I have seen larger nuggets on exhibition in San Francisco, worth several hundred dollars.
This pays fairly, but there is little chance of getting nuggets of any size hereabouts.
The biggest of my nuggets I always carried in a belt round my waist, but the rest of my 'fortune' was in my bag.
All that remained of my fortune were the few nuggets which I had sewed into my belt.
Knowing the action of sulphides, the manner or the mode of formation of a portion at least of these nuggetsseems apparent.
In various shapes, from sharp-edged crystals to mammillary-shaped nuggets of wood-tin; from masses of 30 lbs.
Second, why are masses of gold, such as the huge nuggets found in Victoria and New South Wales, never been discovered in lodes?
Such were the curious Victorian nuggets Spondulix and Lothair.
If in good sized nuggets it is picked out, if in smaller pieces or fine grains the digger slowly blows the sand and dust aside with his breath, leaving the gold exposed.
A little over twenty-three hundred dollars it amounted to, not counting the nuggets which Lovin Child had on the bunk with him.
Bud had the top off a can, and took out a couple of nuggets the size of a cooked Lima bean.
Lovin Child had nuggets to play with there on the bed, and told the world many unintelligible things about it.
One could mine there if he wished to do so; Jim would always furnish him a promising claim, and teach him the art of following the little fan-like drift of gold specks to the nested deposit of nuggets somewhere up the hillside.
The hills along the Stanislaus have turned out some wonderful nuggets in their time, but no other of such size as that.
Nuggets and lumps of pure gold, yellow and heavy and chill; great pieces of rich quartz, with bits of gold stuck all over it, and gold mixed with the sand that covered the bottom of the rocky basin.
Some of these lumps still had bits of quartz attached to them, and these the boys rejected, only taking those nuggets which were free from them.
There below them, in amongst the stones, half buried in the sand, shining up through the little pools of water that still remained among the rocks, were lumps and nuggets of the precious metal.
She didn't if those golden nuggets really are as good as the sponsor would have us believe," Peter said.
For she sat down at a table opposite her mother and began eating the golden nuggets as if they were the tastiest things in the world.
Clarissa opened a box and poured out two servings of what she called crispy, crunchy nuggets of golden corn.
He was one of the crew of a ship that was carrying a large quantity of gold nuggets to a distant port.
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He had no use for the gold nuggets he picked up; the Indians did not know or appreciate the value of gold, and there was no one with whom he could utilize it, as he could in the exchange of ponies and furs.
It is said that he finally threw the nuggets away because of the uncomfortable weight in his pockets.
He took up the crowbar, and with it ascertained that the opening with the sand and nuggets was of unknown depth.
Gathering up the nuggets he had found, Dave placed them in his pocket to show to the others, and then started to leave the place.
And he brought out some of the nuggets he carried.
But what good would these nuggets be to him or his friends if he could not get out of the mine-cave?
Only a short time elapsed, when, on one of the lower southside branches of the stream they found pockets of flakes and nuggets of gold far richer than anything Alaska had ever shown before.
We've gone whacks so far in the nuggets and cash in the hut; who'd 'a thought he'd such a pile stowed away there?
There was a deal about gold-buying and some hut, and a box with nuggets and things locked up in it--money as well.
The next biggest of the two monster nuggets mentioned above came from an old river-channel 180 feet under ground.
Ballarat and Bendigo have produced the three monumental nuggets of the world, and this one is the monumentalest one of the three.
No such nuggets were found in California as Ballarat produced.
You will be astonished at the number of bright nuggets of fact which will crop up from the rock of half forgetfulness.
It was from this mine of literary nuggets that he used to obtain the materials for his charming papers which amused and instructed the reader.
The men began to throw nuggets at her, and Maudie, never pausing in the dance, caught them on the fly.
Dim as the light was, you could see the little top nuggets peering out at you over the ragged tin-rims, in a never locked shanty, never molested, never bothered about.
She would rather have her nuggets back, but, failing that--let Butts pay!
An electrical shock flashed through the company when the General picked up one of the biggestnuggets and threw it down with a rich, full-bodied thud.
Dillon, in the breathless silence having slowly untied the thongs, held his sack aslant between the two lights, and poured out a stream-nuggets and coarse bright gold.
The great yellow pumpkins gleamed like huge nuggets of gold in some forest Eldorado.
Kate was in the dairy, moulding the golden nuggets of butter with a wooden spatula.
And, moreover, in Welsh diggings what if nuggets there be found, As large as leeks, and weighing from a scruple to a pound?
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