They do not laugh at those who, about to compass their destruction, led by another Celt, have digged a pit into which they trample headlong, and astonishing as it might seem, to the regret of that very peasantry which has hated them for so long.

Abraham Axtell's handsthe same that covered his face before the young girl's picture, that digged the grave, and so gently soothed his sister that very morninghad worn it smooth.

Nothing is choicer in that sort of writing than to bring in some remote, impossible parallel,as between a great empress and the inobtrusive, quiet soul who digged her noiseless way so perseveringly through that rugged Paraguay mine.

"O that I had digged myself a cave!"Fletcher cor.

I soon prised up a grave-slab of some famous man in the north transept, and commenced to shovel: but, I do not know how, by the time I had digged a foot the whole impulse passed from me: I left off the work, promising to resume it: but nothing was ever done, for the next day I was at Woolwich, and busy enough about other matters.

"I digged up the ground with a tomahawk, and covered him over with logs and grass, and my shirt and trousers.

For I digged a hole with the stable-spade under the front lilac; and I wound them in the sheets, foot and form and head; and, not without throes and qualms, I bore and buried them there.

Out of one of these are dayly digged the bodies of auncient men, not rotten, but all whole, the cause whereof is the qualitie of the Egyptian soile, which will not consume the flesh of man, but rather dry and harden the same, and so alwayes conserueth it.

One might suppose that in a time of famine the Paiutes digged wild parsnip in meadow corners and died from eating it, and so learned to produce death swiftly and at will.

And they finde them in the riuers: for the king will not suffer them to digge the rocke.

You remember the fellow in the play who would have loved war had they not digged villainous saltpetre from the harmless earth.

Even I may perchance aid thee, for thou surely knowest how the good Athelstane was saved by the little blind mole that digged a trench over which he that sought the king's life stumbled.

It is also true that two Franks in Hegira 550, digged a tunnel into the Meccan treasury from a house they had hired in the guise of Egyptian Hujjaj.

He and his servants have often digged up mandrakes, and are not only still alive, but listened in vain for the dreadful scream.

Their busy labourers built gigantic water-works, digged endless canals, and carried distant waters through the sands of the desert; their mighty, energetic spirit built large and secure harbours, dried the marshy lakes, covered the sea with vessels, the land with living beings, and spread a creation of life and movement along the earth.

"Oh! that I had digged myself a cave.