With a quick flirt he sent the water sluicing across the bottom, turning the grains of black sand over and over.
Then he imparted to the pan a deft circular motion that sent the water sluicing in and out through the dirt and gravel.
It knocked the sluicing company’s works about, above a bit, and flooded the miners’ huts—but the worst thing it did was to drown poor Johnny Doyle the mailman.
I should go up the creek, and have a look at the sluicing claim.
Snatching up his towel and sponge bag, the stranger made a rush for the creek bank, where a rude stage permitted him to indulge in a copious sluicing of his head, neck and shoulders.
The claim was farther off than he at first judged, but after climbing with stout heart a “stey brae,” he looked down on the sluicing appliances, and marvelled at the inventive ingenuity which the gold industry had developed.
He would like also to ramble about this neighbourhood, and see what the farms and sluicing claims were like.
They were too busy sluicing the Old Man and Trant to come after us in a boat.
After them went James Tichel in his boat, the spray sluicing up from her bows.
It is well not to leave the sluicing for too long a period, as when the slimes and tailings are set hard they are difficult to remove.
My fiction became so real to me that for periods I forgot to question it--then sometimes, at a moment when the illusion was strongest, some impulse of reason would strike in upon and chill me, like a sluicing from a cold bucket.
A wave of returning reason swept me like a sluicing from a bucket of ice-water, and I came to my feet sane and unspeakably mortified.
The reason why William wished to go to Gunderoo was, that no matter what came or went, wages could be made by a man in "sluicing gold.
The tide was sluicing us out as fast as it had borne us in that morning.
The sailors were sluicing the deck with great hoses, and sprinkling it with little watering-cans of disinfectant.
They were hustled below by the third officer, who was superintending the sluicing of the dusty, black decks.
I walked on pretty quick till I came to the flat where Arizona Bill and his mates had their sluicing claim.
He, with his brother, Richard Marston, worked an adjoining claim to the Arizona Sluicing Company, with the respected shareholders of which they were on terms of intimacy.
Ground-sluicing is done in winter, when water is abundant and the ground soft, the pay-dirt being thrown into a channel made for the purpose, and down which the water rushes.
What's to hinder his blowing the other when he's finished sluicing his drive?
He came to with water sluicinghis face and a hat fanning air into his lungs.
When darkness fell, huge fires were lighted on the banks and the sluicing continued.
We'll do your sluicing for you, but you'll pay us for it.
Both had been content to let the details go until such time as the sluicing should begin.
She tried to remember what Brent had told her of the sluicing out process, and realized that he had told very little.
And instantly a new fear smote him--a fear wherein lay buried like a fly in amber a hope for life, the only hope that had yet come to him since his awakening there in that trap sealed round by sluicing maelstroms.
He grew up on an Oregon farm, and what he hasn't learned about sluicing in Alaska isn't worth knowing.
We had staked a promising placer, and we were ready to begin sluicing with the first spring thaw, when he sold his interest unexpectedly to meet an obligation down in the States.
The wind blew furiously, andsluicing rain poured down.
I only know that one of his mules and a section of sluicing was picked up at Red Flat, eight miles away!
The ditches were overflowed, the fords of the Fork impassable, the sluicing adrift, and the trails and wagon roads to Rough and Ready knee-deep in mud.
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