Didn't you know there was something better in the world than grubbing after musty old tribes and customs and folk-songs?

"'Didn't I know there was something better in life than grubbing after musty tribes and customs and folk-songs?'" he quoted.

It is enough that I have bartered youth and happiness and the very power of living for the privilege of grubbing in old county records.

I could have gone on contentedly grubbing through my musty, sleepy life here, till death had taken me, if only you had not shown me what life might mean!

Smirke and his pupil read the ancient poets together, and rattled through them at a pleasant rate, very different from that steady grubbing pace with which he was obliged to go over the classis ground at Grey Friars, scenting out each word and digging up every root in the way.

When you are being carried back to the pavilion after your century against Loamshiredo you play Loamshire?we shall be grubbing in the hard ground for ruined abbeys.

"A fatiguing pursuit, this grubbing for mementos of the past," said Psmith.

Yet there was no time to be lost if I was ever to get out alive, and so I groped with my hands against the side of the grave until I made out the bottom edge of the slab, and then fell to grubbing beneath it with my fingers.

They have a sordid, grubbing, vegetating life, many of them indeed are but little above the brute creation.

He was not very fond of grubbing, but he earned the greater part of his ten dollars a month and rations, by sitting on the fence, smoking a corn-cob pipe, and attending to the second division of the work which his employer had set him to do.

Take to-day, for instance; we have all been out enjoying ourselves, whilst you have been grubbing at home at work.

Downright horrid money-grubbing, I call it, for before she came he was always" "Always what?" demanded Katherine sharply.

In a few weeks, however, the school had closed; and the three boys were again hard at work, chopping and grubbing in Mr. Lincoln's clearings.

Finally I struck a little job with the contractor here digging ditches, grubbing stumps, grading streets and so forth.

I have a girl who to-day has done as good a day's work at grubbing as any man, but I could not make her a hand at cotton-picking.

We were grubbing away in the middle of a thickish clump of willows where some driftwood from a former flood had caught high among the branches, when my body was seized in a grip that made me half drop upon the sand.

"The time I put in grubbing!

"I marvel at that man, grubbing hungry for marvels amidst the almost incredibly marvellous.

"I think there never was such a money-grubbing, grinding, grasping beggar since the world began.

He came up quite unawares to our camp whilst we were grubbing.

Their work was rough, and even the women were expected to labor in the fields plowing, grubbing and hauling manure as if they were men.

Efforts have been made to extend the area available for feeding by grubbing hedges and cultivating pieces of ground hitherto given over to thistles, rushes, and rough grasses.

As we forded the Maquoketa he laughed at the settlers working at the timber, grubbing out stumps, burning off the logs, struggling with roots.

They have been used to grubbing, and they go where grubbing has to be done.

To potter about in the past is like grubbing in an ash-heap, and shedding tears over broken bits of china.