Which preposition to use with dig

in Occurrences 239%

Fortunately, the day had been warm enough to loosen the ice-crystals so as to admit of hollows being dug in the rotten portions of the blocks, thus enabling me to pick my way with far less difficulty than I had anticipated.

for Occurrences 129%

I think strongly of emigrating to the Rocky Mountains, donning a rough garb, and digging for gold, in the hope of getting round-shouldered; or hiring myself out as a wood-chopper, in anticipation of a chip flying up and taking off part of my obnoxious nose.

into Occurrences 93%

It lay against the pink-brocaded window-hangings of the suite in the Hotel Metropolis; it even crept in like a timid hand reaching toward, yet not quite touching, the full-flung figure of Mrs. Blutch Connors, lying, her cheek dug into the harshness of the carpet, there at the closed door to the bedroomprone as if washed there, and her yellow hair streaming back like seaweed.

out Occurrences 55%

[Illustration: CAMPING IN A SEPULCHRE.] "Let us dig out of here quicker than we can say Jack Robinson," said Scott; and we began to "dig out" at once.

with Occurrences 47%

Increasing his efforts, he soon overtakes the runaway lovers, challenges his rival by giving him a dig with his claw, and tells him to "come out and show himself a crab."

at Occurrences 28%

" As the Scotchman spoke he was picking up the horse's hoofs, and digging at them with a bit of stick.

to Occurrences 18%

Dig to the west of this six foot.'" "What's that about a peg?" exclaimed Tom.

on Occurrences 17%

They, under color of this Indian title, required one-third of all the gold dug on their domain, and collected at this rate until the fall of 1848, when a mining party from Oregon declined paying 'tithes' as they called it.

through Occurrences 16%

No one would venture to write of Restoration life without digging through his pages.

from Occurrences 16%

Of this knowledge they availed themselves in planning the sallies by which they caused great distress to the besiegers, whose clumsy engines and devices seemed to produce no result beyond the waste of time, and who felt perhaps that they had done something when they blocked up the gate of the bridge with huge stones dug from the neighboring quarries.

under Occurrences 13%

A man might dig under these here two gate logs, if no one was against him.

like Occurrences 9%

We've found it!" cried Betty, beginning to dig like an excited terrier.

across Occurrences 5%

The auto gave a pitch sideways and then plunged into a pit that had been dug across the road and covered with leaves and dust placed on a framework of branches.

among Occurrences 5%

Observing a remarkable hill bearing 312 degrees about twenty miles distant, steered for it; the country became more level, with grass and brushwood; at 3.5 turned north to a steep granite hill, crossing a dry watercourse thirty yards wide and sixteen feet deep trending north-west; at 4.40 halted in a gully in the granite range, and obtained water by digging among the rocks.

about Occurrences 4%

"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.

after Occurrences 4%

He was gone several minutes, digging after it.

around Occurrences 4%

She planned the meals for the day, made out orders for market, gave the flowers in the vases fresh water, and looking in at the conservatory, she found Pansy Potts digging around the potted daisies with a hairpin.

as Occurrences 4%

" "Has one just as much ground to dig as another?

between Occurrences 4%

But we had plenty to do to keep pathways dug between the guns and the huts; often we had to clear these afresh every hour.

of Occurrences 4%

And I told how that they went downward an hundred strange miles, that did be dug of the labour of Millions and of the years of Eternity.

within Occurrences 4%

These had been dug within a little thicket of shrubs, planted by poor Jamie Allen, under Maud's own directions.

without Occurrences 3%

who would not forget him in a week with"Well, he was pleasant company, poor fellow," and go on digging without a sigh?

along Occurrences 3%

For a period as low down as the American revolution, it was common for the ignorant and credulous to dig along these banks in search of hidden treasures; and impostors found an ample basis in these current rumours for schemes of delusion.

over Occurrences 3%

"You're stupid from digging over those books.

beneath Occurrences 3%

And Monsieur Tudesco went on to relate how he was charged with very special dutiesto discover the underground passages which the instruments of tyranny had dug beneath the capital, tunnelling under the two branches of the Seine, for the transport of munitions of war.

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