This was his own tamanous, and right joyous was he at the omen, so taking his elk-horn pick he began to dig right sturdily at the foot of the monument.

After a time he threw down the pick and passed his head through the opening, but it was not yet large enough to receive his body.

Two burly fellows in overalls, carrying pick and spade across their shoulders, pushed through the underbrush at the edge of the clearing.

Early birds had lean financial pickings in aviation.

His only child, Alice, ten or twelve years old, bright, fair, full of animal spirits, who was indulged to the last degree by the roughly generous colonel, sometimes accompanied him about the half-developed country, searching for strange birds and blossoms in the woods or watching demurely the laborers ply their picks and shovels while he inspected their work.

The 'heathen in his blindness' would have made arrangements with the Genius of the Place before he ever drove a pick there. '

Anybody who can swing a pick like that" "Now let me tell you how they happened to catch him.

Run and fetch a pick and spade, and start here; I'll go back and mark out a proper line.

Detroit Jim seized the pick and began to pry the bricks loose from the arched roof of the conduit.

In most peaceful times we were accustomed to spend eight hours a day there, lying up against the "face" in a tunnel perhaps four feet high, and wielding a pick in an attitude which would have convulsed any ordinary man with cramp.

"I stayed in Ghorband a month, and gave the Governor there the pick of my baskets for hush-money, and bribed the Colonel of the regiment some more, and, between the two and the tribes-people, we got more than a hundred hand-made Martinis, a hundred good Kohat Jezails that'll throw to six hundred yards, and forty man-loads of very bad ammunition for the rifles.

Listen!you can hear their picks and the pounding of their rock-hammers!" CHAPTER XX At last Joanne realized that the explosion was not to come, that Blackton and his men were working to save them.

At daylight the wind blew so hard as to prevent our picking up the broken anchor and we proceeded towards Mount Adolphus, passing half a mile to the eastward of Albany Islands that lie off the south-east end of Cape York.

As a mighty sleigh in the loom of time it seemedin a sudden fancy of mineto be beating home the picks of the years.

Where did you find it?" He had found the boat, in the morning, moored about fifty yards from her moorings where he had left it the night before, and could not think how that came to pass; and now, as he and his partner were about to take their oars, they discovered this bell in the bottom of the boat, under a bit of canvas, also the sexton's pick and spade"tom-spey'ad," they termed that peculiar, broad-bladed implement.

"Why?" Without replying Detroit Jim resumed his picking, picking, at the bricks.

From the lower part of the stalk where it opened first is where they got the first pickings.

The Montespan, too, was a fine woman in her day, but fancy his picking up now with a widow who is older than himself, a woman, too, who does not even try to make herself attractive, but kneels at her prie-dieu or works at her tapestry from morning to night.

Now the iron pathways are running in every direction, making grand junctions at points which had never felt the navvy's pick a dozen years ago.

Dear SPEC, 'I Suppose this Letter will find thee picking of Daisies, or smelling to a Lock of Hay, or passing away thy time in some innocent Country Diversion of the like Nature.

At this consultation it was decided that it would be better to finish the picking up of a considerable plot of ground, one of at least half an acre in extent, that was already commenced, within the crater, scatter their compost over it, and spade all up together, and plant, mixing in as much of the sea-weed as they could conveniently spade under.

From out the screen of vines and creepers he flung ahead of him a miner's pick and shovel and gold-pan.

I've got the pick, from a collector's standpointthough not from a money valuation.

The boys were sad and silent for a day or two, but a look of cheerful resignation soon came upon their faces as they handled pick and shovel, and the world rolled on as before.

"Vanilla, hell!" said Hallman, whose harp had one string, "he's been having his pick of country produce.