25 Words to use with grubbing

Parker can be getting the grub-wagon in shapeI reckon you'll have to work Old Tom and Baldy on it.

"I am the grub-man.

" "Nop! Venison steak's more in my line than grub-stake just about now.

But this method of carrying on the campaign was soon brought into disrepute, owing to the fact that certain juveniles, seeing in this new idea of bill-posting a fresh field for practical joking, began to adorn the walls of the "grub-room," and other spaces which did not often come under the eye of a master, with placards exhibiting inscriptions which had no bearing on the electionssuch irrelevant remarks as, "nooks Two wants kicking !"

At first they suggested moles crawling through plow furrows; then, as they progressed onward, they shrank to the smallness of gray grub-worms, advancing one behind another.

Thorne hasn't put me on to the grub line yet.

A soulless ephemera she, with no ambitions or aspirations, save that, having quitted the grub stage, she desires to be as brilliant a butterfly as possible.

And when we go short on the grub pile He shares up whatever he kills.

A dog was prowling among the grub-sacks.

I have known "grub stakers" too, those persuasive sinners to whom you make allowances of flour and pork and coffee in consideration of the ledges they are about to find; but none of these proved so much worth while as the Pocket Hunter.

When grub-stealing was the same as slitting a man's throat.

Well, it was right enough too, as Smithy had nursed him through small-pox one winter up in the Shoshonee country, and mighty near starved himself to death feeding Shadder out of the slim grub stock, when the boy was on the mend; still some people would have forgot that.

Now and then, by rarest luck, in some foolish grub street is the gem we want.

When I reached Moore's Flat I found that the boys had rented a store for me, and their welcome was very hearty when they found how lucky I had been in securing my money and starting out as their "grub supplier.

" "Some men eat more an' some less," remarked Sarah Jane, as ill-favored a spinster as ever the sun shone on; "generally it means so much grub ter so much weight.

And after a year or so the queer monstrous grub things in the field before the blacksmith's grew so big and developed into such frightful skipjacks and cockchafersmotor cockchafers the boys called themthat they drove Lady Wondershoot abroad.

There is a man always to be seen there at grub time, a cockish-looking fellow, somewhat, with a horse-shoe pin in his scarf, and he is as thick as thieves with the butchers.

Though the arms get warm from swinging the grub-axe or billhook, or cleaning out the ditch and plastering and smoothing the side of the mound with the spade, yet feet and ankles are chilled by the water in the ditch.

I loved the woods, and with my little grubbing-hoe transplanted many wild and beautiful things.

"If you've no objections, I'll rustle after that grub bag, and indulge in something to help get rid of this empty feeling I've got.

About five o'clock the twins grew so uproariously hungry they were compelled to quit their labors, but when they reached their house they were horrified to find that a wandering dog, who also had no respect for the Sabbath, had depleted their "grub-box," overlooking nothing but the tea and sugar, which he had upset and spilled when he found he did not care to eat them.

I wish I was a married man, A married man I'd be! An' ketch the grub fer both of us A-fishin' in the sea.

She's afraid of the grub fly.

In trees from southern river bottoms the loss through shakes and grub-holes in many cases amounts to as much as 50 per cent.

But now behold another grub-hunter, which, distasting mud, has discovered an unworked mine in the trunks of trees.

25 Words to use with  grubbing