17 adjectives to describe diggings

A little digging in the earth revealed the green metal of an old powder-flask with a wooden stopper.

Reflections on a grave digging in Westminster Abbey, ii. 26; v. 117, n. 4.

It was equally clear that, as the law had been declared over and over again in the colony, unauthorized digging on Crown land constituted a trespass, for which the digger was legally responsible.

So, we found the supposedly excitable French digging in to receive the onslaught of the supposedly phlegmatic German.

But just think how the fierce digging of the crisis to which the great Husbandman every now and then leads a nation, brings back to the surface its old forgotten flowers.

* LAW Must be kept as a garden, with frequent digging, weeding, turning, &c., for that which was in one age convenient, and, perhaps, necessary, becomes in another prejudicial.

Tired with the long day's travel, and the fruitless diggings for wood, Dodd and I returned to camp, and threw ourselves down upon our bearskins to drink tea.

Under a windfall he caught the warm scent of a rabbit, but the rabbit was as safe from him there as were the partridges in the trees, and after an hour of futile digging and gnawing he gave up his effort to reach it.

They sold them to the guano diggings in the Chincha Islands.

"There are always some pretty hard men about these border townsminers who are down on their luck; men who have had to run from the northern diggings, and such like.

The digging of the soil preparatory to raising a corn-crop is work; the making of brooms; the writing of fugues.

She will find riches on the surface, in shallow diggings; she will find them in the sun-dried banks of rivers; it will suffice to merely sift the earth.

Besides, the Spaniards found in various places near the rivers the holes and slight diggings whence the gold had been procured.

ing I scurried through what might have been a decent breakfast, left my comfortable diggings, and was cooped up in a train for seven hours, that I am now driving in a pelting rain through, so far as I can see for the mist, what appears to be a howling wilderness, I ask myself if I am still in possession of my senses.

After some unprofitable digging for water, he abandoned the project, and established himself in Madagascar, which had before this become known as a pirate resort.

If you are forced to write to live, you may cast up some rubbish from the surface; yet by the continual digging you will reveal all that lies below.

No signs of any corpse were to be found, though one after another all the gentlemen descended to look, and Mrs. Oakshott was only withheld by her husband's urgent representations, and promise to superintend a diligent digging in the ground, so as to ascertain whether there had been a hasty burial there.

17 adjectives to describe  diggings