Digger

Examples

• He was going to dig, with whatsoever object, for he tucked up his cuffs and spat on his hands, and then went at it like an old digger as he was. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• After the peanuts have reached their full growth, they are dug up very much in the same way as potatoes, a machine potato digger now being extensively used for this purpose. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Then he took a skull and held it in his hand, and looked reflectively upon it, after the manner of the grave-digger when he discourses of Yorick. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• What was the past of this Trevor, pugilist, traveler, and gold-digger, and how had he placed himself in the power of this acid-faced seaman? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• They say it is Pi-ute--possibly it is Digger. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It means grasshopper soup, the favorite dish of the Digger tribe,--and of the Pi-utes as well. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Where are the digger and the spade, this peaceful night, destined to add the last great secret to the many secrets of the Tulkinghorn existence? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• A bottle of good claret after dinner does a digger in the red coals no harm, otherwise than as it has a tendency to throw him out of work. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.

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