But although these lingering pioneers are perhaps more exhausted than the mines, and about as dead as the dead rivers, they are yet a rare and interesting set of men, with much gold mixed with the rough, rocky gravel of their characters; and they manifest a breeding and intelligence little looked for in such surroundings as theirs.

He sauntered along, kicking up the gravel with the toe of his boot.

The destructiveness of the lower portion of this particular flood was somewhat augmented by mining gravel in the river channels, and by levees which gave way after having at first restrained and held back the accumulating waters.

Then he felt loose gravel under his feet and thrilled with a strange fierce satisfaction.

Upon reaching a layer which seemed to be a good one, the gravel on top was stripped off and thrown aside and the 'pay streak' worked with the rocker.

When a soft muskeg swallowed the new track, he must watch, by the flaring blast-lamps, noisy ploughs throw showers of gravel from the ballast cars.

I suppose he hauls his gravel to your factory?' "'Hauling's got nothing to do with it,' said he; 'gravel is only ten cents a load anywhere, and if I choose I could put my factory right in the middle of a gravel pit.

There is nothing that soothsayers will not predict when they are gravelled for lack of matter, but this is the stupidest of all their efforts.

The horses had so far recovered after the day's rest that we were enabled to resume a south-west course, following down the bed of the stream to latitude 22 degrees 51 minutes, the country slightly improving towards evening; but we again had to encamp without water, having, however, obtained a small quantity in some gravel at noon.

Piero was still praying by his dead wife's side when the tramp of footsteps upon the gravel outside the house fell upon his ears.

They passed through several layers of sand and gravel before reaching this, and these were carefully examined to see how much gold they contained.

She knelt down and ran her hands across it, sifted some gravel through her fingers.

I next poured gravel over the filter, and placed the decorations of shells and toys on top.

Every man who had bet against him set up a howl of rapture, but Mr. P. never relaxed a muscle, and on went Creeping Peter, just as fast as ever, his horny bones dashing away the sand and gravel like spray from the cut-water of a scudding yacht, and, amid the wildest clamor, he shot past the judges' stand on his nose and one leg, making his mile in two minutes and two seconds!

What does all this mean?" "That's just what I'd like to know," exclaimed Roy indignantly, brushing the gravel out of his smarting eyes, "I've been made prisoner and.

" A heavy foot crunched the gravel without.

" The importance of these ancient gravels as gold fountains is well known to miners.

Try and conceive, then, what a much more vast mass of chalk must have been washed away, to leave that vast mass of gravel behind it.

She did not waken until aroused by the grinding of wheels upon the gravel beneath the window.

Gerald Osborn came home next day and not long afterwards Kit found him lying on the gravel beside a tarn on the Ashness moor.

Their sunward sides are gardens, their shady sides are groves; the former devoted chiefly to eriogonae, compositae, and graminae; a square rod containing five or six profusely flowered eriogonums of several species, about the same number of bahia and linosyris, and a few grass tufts; each species being planted trimly apart, with bare gravel between, as if cultivated artificially.

Together we had sat on benches in the park and poked the gravel into patterns.

A step crunched the gravel near them, and in a moment that flashed vividly with rejoicing that the fight was ended, then with abject, chattering terror, Mealy Jones saw his father approaching.

Other men in line, four or five feet below the level of the boxes, were "stripping," picking, and shovelling the gravel off the bed-rockno easy business, for even this summer temperature thawed but a few inches a day, and below, the frost of ten thousand years cemented the rubble into iron.

Then he made a charge on that boy, and tossed him through the tent, and I looked through the hole, and saw the boy scratching gravel towards town.