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Updated: May 21, 2025
We have got money and stock, and you have got headpiece; we might do very well together. Indeed, indeed we might. Promise me. Oh, do, please, promise me!" "I promise you." And on this understanding, Staines and Falcon were equipped with rifles, pickaxe, shovels, waterproofs, and full saddle-bags, and started, with many shakings of the hand, and many tears from Phoebe, for the diamond washings.
But there was none: for he could not descend a single step without using both hands on the ladder; and to do this would leave his face and head without protection. Either left unguarded for a single instant, and the beak of the bird, playing about like a pickaxe, would be struck into his skull, or buried deep in the sockets of his eyes. He knew this, and so also they who looked from below.
There are many beautiful homes on this lofty hilltop, but they were all for sale at bargains, for their occupants have grown weary of the cloud bursts of the long dreary rainy season, then of the parching heats of the equally dreary dry season, when a pickaxe and crowbar are required to dig a potato unless you keep water running from the hose day and night.
In a word, men of all trades and professions were confounded, and cheerfully handled the pickaxe and shovel: delicate females, sprucely dressed, were seen here and there wheeling along barrows filled with earth; while long strings of stout fellows dragged heavy loads in carts and waggons.
You can't feel the thread, she answered, stepping down through a narrow break in the floor of the cavern. 'Oh! she cried, 'I am in the water. It is running strong but it is not deep, and there is just room to walk. Make haste, Curdie. He tried, but the hole was too small for him to get in. 'Go on a little bit he said, shouldering his pickaxe.
There is the song of the pickaxe brandished in revolution when mobs cry "Peace, labor bread," and in mines of industry beneath the earth. She loves the "defeated" in whose house no fire glows, who live in caves and dens, and writes of the mutilation of a woman in the factory machinery. At eighteen years "a loom, two handsome eyes that know no tears, a cotton dress, a love, belong to me."
So we moved on a few hundred feet, picked another unoccupied patch, and resumed our efforts. No greater success rewarded us here. "I believe maybe we ought to go deeper," surmised Yank. "Some of these fellows are taking their dirt right off top of the ground," objected Johnny. However, we unlimbered the pickaxe and went deeper; to the extent of two feet or more.
He examined the interior and the exterior, the stones of the foundation, the bricks in the walls; he raised the slates of the roof. One day, he came with a pickaxe and a spade, gave me the spade, kept the pickaxe, pointed to the adjacent vacant lots, and said: "Come." I followed him, but I lacked his enthusiasm. He divided the vacant land into several sections which he examined in turn.
All this falling carelessly from the unshaven lips of a dusty, roughly dressed man, with a long-handled shovel and pickaxe strapped on his back, and a frying-pan depending from his saddle. But no panoplied or armed knight ever seemed so heroic or independent a figure to Clarence.
It occurred to him that they might have disposed of some of the unburnable articles under the floor, and he lifted a rough board or two. But to pursue the search systematically he would have needed a pickaxe, and reluctantly he gave it up and turned his attention to the lean-to and the buried stove. The stove lay in a shallow pit, filled with ancient ashes and crumbled bits of wood from the roof.
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