Dillon, in the breathless silence having slowly untied the thongs, held his sack aslant between the two lights, and poured out a stream-nuggets and coarse bright gold.

An electrical shock flashed through the company when the General picked up one of the biggest nuggets and threw it down with a rich, full-bodied thud.

Dim as the light was, you could see the little top nuggets peering out at you over the ragged tin-rims, in a never locked shanty, never molested, never bothered about.

Nearly every cabin on the creek had similar chimney ornaments, but not everyone boasted an old coat, kept under the bunk, full of the bigger sort of nuggets.

It panned out in nuggets.

Somewhere within its stark borders, if one believes report, is a hill strewn with nuggets; one seamed with virgin silver; an old clayey water-bed where Indians scooped up earth to make cooking pots and shaped them reeking with grains of pure gold.

It was placer goldloose gold, and MacDonald says that one day he and Jane filled their pockets with nuggets.

Old Donald knew it was the same valley, for the half-breed raved of dead men, of rotting buckskin sacks of yellow nuggets, of crumbling log shacks, and of other things the memories of which stabbed like knives into Donald's heart.

Music and Drama Hasty reading of annals makes some people gather the mistaken impression that San Francisco's dramatic and musical history had its genesis when miners threw gold nuggets at the feet of Lotta Crabtree.

A year apart... journalism and leaving home Chapter 10 Growing up with the Herald... Chapter 11 In black & white... newsdesk nuggets Chapter 12

In black & white... newsdesk nuggets Derek Almeida Derek Almeida, besides being one of Goa's finest and most aesthetically-balanced deskmen, steals time to write humour columns whenever possible.

Golden nuggets of thought.

In the yellow pottery jar which she discovered were as many gold nuggets as there were girls, and each nugget was a little gilt-paper-wrapped joke for the trip.

The nuggets of truth found in that science show that every virtue known to man grew up slowly into its present exalted form.

Nuggets of a few ounces have been frequently found, and there is one well-authenticated case of a solid nugget weighing twenty-eight pounds, which was purchased from its ignorant owner for three dollars, and afterward sold at the Mint.

Negroes are and have been accustomed to go out to the creeks and wash on Saturdays, frequently bringing in two or three dollars' worth, and not unfrequently negroes come to town with little nuggets of the pure ore to trade.

They had found a minea place where they had picked up nuggets with their fingers.

Later in the afternoon he brought forth the buckskin bag from a niche in the log wall where it had been concealed, and one after another carefully examined the golden nuggets.

He was therefore confident that the nuggets had been discovered in or on the edge of a running stream.

"If the gold is seventy-five or a hundred miles away, why were those men here, and with only a handful of nuggets in their possession? Is it possible that the gold played outthat they found only what was in the buckskin bag?"

They could easily have explained their possession of those few nuggets.

And the answer, in the case of Miss ELEANOR GATES, is that the nuggets were the property of LEWIS CARROLL.

It is a vast placer, full of nuggets for the philologist and the lover of poetry.

Bathed in the splendour of the atmosphere it brings forth its fruit, consisting of grains and nuggets.

These grains and nuggets are afterwards washed away by the heavy rains and swept down the mountain, like all heavy bodies, to be disseminated throughout the entire island.