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Updated: May 5, 2025
Apparently it had been devised to excavate holes rather than to explode, and when we asked questions about it we speedily ascertained that our guide did not care to discuss the gun which had inflicted this particular bit of damage. "It is not permitted to speak of this matter," he said in explanation of his attitude. "It is a military secret, this invention. We call it a mine gun."
Then the water creeps horizontally through the soft stratum, doing most of its work by solution, until it finds a crevice in the floor through which it can excavate farther in the downward direction; so it goes on in the manner of steps until it burrows channels to the open stream.
Professional work is not what we want. Any man, be he minister, clergyman, Bible-reader, city missionary, who goes among our godless population with the suspicion of pay about him is the weaker for that. What is needed besides is that ladies and gentlemen that are a little higher up in the social scale than these poor creatures, should go to them themselves; and excavate and work.
I rose to my feet, though with some difficulty, and taking the measure of his height I marked it out upon the ground, then drawing my pike from my pocket, I proceeded with the utmost coolness to excavate the earth, taking no notice of the questions the monk asked me.
Another sort are quite black, and their operations and manner of life are not less extraordinary. Their habitations are the inside of the branches of a tree, which they contrive to excavate by working out the pith almost to the extremity of the slenderest twig; the tree at the same time flourishing, as if it had no such inmate.
They could only find firm soil at the very base of the height, and they had to excavate more than eighty shafts, fill them with concrete, and then rear their church on all those subterranean columns. . . . Yes, that is so. Of course the columns cannot be seen, but it is they who hold that insulting edifice aloft, right over Paris!"
For the moment, we must suspend operations on our Golconda" his name for the ruins that we were to excavate "and, as our present purpose yours no less than ours, friend Ulysses is to confuse Tobias, my suggestion is this: That you walk with me a mile or two to the nor'ard.
"Select a site for our capital city" Honey Smith helped him out facetiously "lay out streets begin to excavate for the church, town-hall, schoolhouse, and library." "The first thing to do now," Frank Merrill went on, as usual, ignoring all facetiousness, "is to put up a signal."
A slight displacement, caused by the effort of the insects' backs, is all that can possibly be effected. Ammophila and Cerceris, Sphex and Pompilus excavate their burrows wherever they please; they carry their prey on the wing, or, if too heavy, drag it afoot. The Necrophorus knows no such facilities in his task.
But I can't get it through my head why he wants to excavate mummies when he could dig up potatoes with some profit." "Dad, find me an earl or a duke like Mr. Crawford, and I'll marry him just as fast as you like." "Kittibudget, I'm not so strong for dukes as I was. Your mother will have a black eye in the morning, or I don't know a shindy when I see it. Now, hike off to bed. I'm all in."
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