30 Verbs to Use for the Word excavation

So excited was he at the discovery of the that he did not permit the on his hand to restrain him from beginning the excavation.

Being on my passage from Detroit to Mackinack, on Lake Huron, a Mr. Wetzler, of Rock River, Wisconsin, stated to me that a Mr. Davy, an English emigrant, found, in making an excavation in his land near "Oregon," some antiquities, consisting of silver coins, for which Mr. Wetzler offered him, unsuccessfully, $50.

In the year 1846, the Trustees of the British Museum sent the erudite antiquarian, Mr. Layard, to undertake the excavations.

The formal transfer of the property of the New Panama Canal Company on the Isthmus was made on May 4, 1904, after which the United States began the organization of a force for the construction of the lock type of canal, in the mean time continuing the excavation by utilizing the French material and equipment and such labor as was procurable on the Isthmus.

Mr. Layard had, moreover, commenced his excavations before he received the countenance of the British Museum authorities.

The explosion produced an excavation measuring fully a cubic yard.

We first entered a lofty excavation of beautiful proportions, at least fifty feet long, with a large recess on one side,every part chiselled with the nicest care, and inscribed with numerous Greek initials, names, and sentences.

At the gate of Herculaneum, the guardian of the little museum left Ferragut to examine in peace the excavations of the various corpses, petrified Pompeiians of plaster still in the attitudes of terror in which death had surprised them.

Sometimes, although seldom, the navicular bone itself has been found to have been fractured; at others its surface has been deprived of its usual coating, and studded with projecting points or ridges of new growth, or exhibiting superficial excavations more or less extensive.

I found a recent excavation at the spot, but no pedestal, which has probably been carried off by the Greek monks.

The old fellow did try it again, and again, and again, plunging, and ramming, and tearing up the earth, until he formed an excavation large enough to contain his huge body.

I hear to-day that the government has ordered the excavation of a mile and a half of the old Via Latina in this neighborhood, and much interesting discovery is anticipated.

we were told, as we passed an informal excavation in the communication trench on our way back.

He could picture the fresh oblong excavation in the soil of the family burial ground.

By skirting the rocks towards the east, to the side which cannot be approached from the sea on account of the reefs and which is not likely to be watched, I reach a narrow excavation about two hundred and twenty-five yards from where the point of the coast extends towards the northwest.

It was by excavation that a man discovered a large hall wherein he found the nine beautiful statues of the Muses, which now adorn the Museum of the Vatican; and no doubt if the Roman government would recommence the excavations many more valuables might be found.

Cavern it is not, though the entrance is beneath a low, natural archthe basin within being open to the heavens, and the place resembling an artificial excavation made to shelter boats.

Across the heap of earth Bobby saw the waiting excavation.

They have stopped all excavation.

As we turn a corner, we seem to plunge into a rocky cavern; our feet tread on roughly imbedded rocks; the sides of the cave jut out in refuse boulders,harsh, dark-colored, ashen; overhead are beams of hard wood, bracing and strengthening the excavation.

BEULE, a French statesman and archæologist; superintended excavations on the Acropolis of Athens; held office under Macmahon (1826-1874).

The meantime was spent by us in visiting the excavations on the opposite side of the river.

" The cave was reached, and in the interest of watching excavation going on Dudley was soon his bright self again.

Dr. Bowman, upon being questioned, said that he had dug out one or two more bones in the cliff adjoining our excavation of July 11th and had added these to the original lot.

He now obtained for Mr. Layard a firman, permitting him to make what excavations he wished.

30 Verbs to Use for the Word  excavation