A curious Baluch custom is that of digging a grave much deeper for a woman than a man.

They are formed by digging holes eight to ten feet deep.

One afternoon, as the two boys were digging a bed in the garden, Tom said to his companion "I have long been going to tell you of something that makes me very uncomfortable; but I have never yet had courage to do it.

Yet Thor would dig energetically for an hour, and rejoice at the end by swallowing the fat little gopher like a pill; it was his bonne bouche, the luscious tidbit in the quest of which he spent a third of his spring and summer digging.

"He's halfway up, digging out a gopher.

Several times he saw Pipoonaskoos digging in the soft bottom close to the creek, and finally he drove the other cub away from a partly digged hole and investigated for himself.

For several minutes they bit and dug and clawed, most of the biting and digging and clawing being done by Muskwa, while Pipoonaskoos devoted his time and energy to yelping.

Until the sun was well up he continued to wander about the meadow and the edge of the lake, digging up occasional roots, and eating tender grass.

Suddenly Muskwa made a sharp turn, and the momentum with which Bruce was coming carried him thirty or forty feet below him, where the lanky mountaineer stopped himself only by doubling up like a jack-knife and digging toes, hands, elbows, and even his shoulders in the soft shale.

Back to the house for a spade then, and clear the earth away, then digging again, trying againno.

It was a foolish sight; first gathering, as it were, about the stone from all sides, then making a dash at it, then digging all round its sides and fumbling at it, throwing up the earth with his bare hands, ay, so he did.

"Think I'd go here digging about for nothing?" They walk home together, Isak enjoying new admiration on false pretences; 'twas something he had not deserved, but it tasted but little different from the real thing.

Had he not once been so much of a man that he grew wakeful and attentive in a moment if one but said a word of stone, a word of digging?

"We've been digging round here now to find that other door-slab piece; might almost do to build here.

They march till noon, meeting never a soul; but here and there they come upon holes in the ground, where men have been digging for trial.

They love to dig in the soft borders: digging is second nature to them, and is of great importance in their development.

As they recrossed the fields, Wingfield observed two men digging a hole in the ground, and, guessing their object, paused for a few minutes to watch them.

He supposed he was the first European that had explored the mines of Golconda; but an Englishman of the name of Methold visited them as early as 1622, and found thirty thousand laborers working away for the rich Marcandar, who paid three hundred thousand pagodas annually to the king for the privilege of digging in a single mine.

The following is an extract:'Four days ago, as some planters were digging under ground, they found a square room containing eleven thousand stand of arms and fifteen thousand cartridges, each of the cartridges containing a bullet.'

"While you're digging the grave," continued Mrs. 'Waters, calmly, "I'll go in and clean up the mess.

The first is the well-known speech in the grave-digging scene of "Hamlet": "Ham.

He declared it most unreservedly as his opinion, that the negroes would not work after 1810they were naturally so indolent, that they would prefer gaining a livelihood in some easier way than by digging cane holes.

These are set in hills, formed by digging holes in the spring, which are filled with fine mould, and the number of which varies from 800 to 1,000, or 1,200 per acre.

Dig here; man holding a divining rod speaks to workmen digging to get to water pipes.

The survey was satisfactory, and we found we could bring the water out high on the flat, so we set to work digging at it, and turned the water in.