Excavated

Examples

• In operation it is lowered with open jaws, and by its own weight digs into the ground that is to be excavated. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Yuan Chwang gives an interesting account of a great Buddhist university at Nalanda, where ruins have quite recently been discovered and excavated. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Excavated earth is removed in a similar manner. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• This ore could be excavated very cheaply by means of improved mining facilities, and transported at low cost to lake ports. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The pipe is lowered into contact with the bottom to be excavated and the material is pumped into hopper barges or into a hopper-well in the dredge itself. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• This figure would also rest on the basis of using in the mixture the gravel excavated on the site. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The material excavated consisted largely of rock and formed one of the hugest engineering problems in the world’s history. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

Typist: Xavier