The sound spread itself flat, and then went tunnelling its way with fitful explosions among the channels of the islands.
Tunnelling was generally the mode for escape; and tunnelling became the order of the day, or, rather, the work for the night.
Where the Rabbit finds the ground too hard or too wet, it contrives to do without tunnelling underground, making runs under the heather, furze, or matted herbage.
Of course, it was of no use tunnelling in that direction; but the end of the second case, which faced inwards, I had not yet tried.
This would give me less tunnelling to do, since the vertical line would be shorter than that passing diagonally to the hatch.
I knew that by tunnelling either way I should gain no advantage.
Tunnelling Companies of the Royal Engineers had been formed, but their numbers were not sufficient to cope with all the work, and in order to help them Mining Sections were formed in some of the Infantry Brigades as well.
The Royal Engineers' Tunnelling Companies on the other hand, were employed for offensive work in blowing up the enemy.
And second to that, a poor second, was his need of tunnelling back into his familiar maze of underground passages.
Suddenly and unexpectedly his vigorous tunnellingbrought him to this obstacle.
At the rear of the position a large gallery had been commenced with a view to tunnelling right under the Turkish works on Battleship Hill.
About this period, the Corps Commander directed the commencement of tunnellingoperations at the Apex.
Shaw took these over and also mounted additional guns in secret emplacements, which were constructed by digging through the escarp and tunnelling forward and upward.
This whole thing is a perfect maze--the railroad doubling back upon itself twice, tunnelling under two mountains, and crossing the river twice in order to cut down the grade.
As the day wore on, Jack found that the tunnelling proceeded more rapidly than he had expected.
Well, that makes ninety-six feet of tunnelling for each house, and all the earth to be carried back as it is dug out.
About six o'clock he was recalled to the Casa Vega by the news that the French gallery had reached the wall and the tunnelling had ceased.
For my part, if this is not put forward as an alternative scheme, I shall vote for tunnelling under the Gardens out of simple cussedness.
The Carpenter bees (Ceratina and Xylocopa, the latter of which is found in abundance south of New England) are busy in refitting and tunnelling the hollows of the grape; while the Ceratina hollows out the stem of the elder, or blackberry.
These were dug-outs formed by tunnelling into the railway embankment between the village of Zillebeke and Ypres itself.
These tunnels were all being worked by one of the Australian Tunnelling Companies, to whom working parties were sent day and night.
I started digging like a wild dog, and he began tunnelling to meet me.
In fact, the more effective a tunnelling would be in determining any particular direction, the less scope, of course, would it afford for any change in the direction of a line of sight along it.
In all the pyramids of Ghizeh, indeed, there is such a tunnelling as we might expect on almost any theory of the relation of the smaller pyramids to the great one.
In one sense the contrivance would be clumsy, for a tunnelling once constructed, would not admit of any change of position, nor even allow of any save very limited changes in the direction of the line of view through them.
It is, of course, well known that there is precisely such an underground tunnelling as the considerations I have indicated seem to suggest as a desirable feature in a proposed astronomical edifice on a very noble scale.
This work was carried out by the 184th Tunnelling Company, which was attached to the Heavy Branch for the purpose.
Despite its great length of tunnelling the line is perfectly dry throughout.
Tunnelling through hills and mountains is not exactly “as old as the hills,” but the practice, nevertheless, is of great antiquity.
It may be in place here to give an interesting instance of the work that was being done by our Tunnelling Companies--work calling for not only great courage and devotion, but also the highest technical skill and resource.
The work of a tunnelling company at the Front is like a duel with knives in a dark room, where one may feel at any moment the stealthy adversary's knife in one's back.
Tunnelling Company, Canadian Engineers, solved it successfully, outwitting the Germans by an ingenious ruse.
You ought to be planning a ship-canal across Darien, or tunnelling mountains.
The lower slopes and outlying portions of high mountains are the most exposed to these natural slips, and they should be most carefully studied before commencing any tunnelling operations through them.
It is not easy to define where cutting should end and tunnelling begin.
The tunnelling was carried on by means of a short length of slightly larger tube, or cap, made of plate-iron or steel, which fitted over the leading end of the main tube.
Wyoming Park wagon road, showing wonderful tunnelling work on the new wagon road from Cody, Wyo.
We used the usual rough hand methods in tunnelling here; namely, the pick and shovel.
Artillery-fire, even of the heaviest character, often fails to destroy these shelters, and engineers are called on to destroy them by tunnelling and firing with high explosives.
The tunnelling company who were on our immediate left had a very arduous time.
It was at a time when the German miners were tunnelling all around us and we stood in doubt as to where some of their tunnels extended.
On many occasions the British Tunnelling Companies have outwitted the cunning Hun.
This trench tunnelling and mine laying requires a different form of bravery: that unemotional courage which results from strong self-control, determination, and perseverance of purpose.
Well they might, since they had been recruited from the infantry to organize our tunnelling companies.
The talk of building great bridges, of spanning mighty chasms, and of tunnelling mountains inspired the boy.
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