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Sentences starting with dig

Dig here every seventh day, and thou shalt find always the same treasure, twelve bright new pennies. [5]
Dig it deep, old Martin, dig it deep,--and let it be as long as other folks' graves. [6]

Sentences ending with dig

Here was treasure-hunting under the happiest auspices--there would not be any bothersome uncertainty as to where to dig. [5]
By and by they judged that twelve had come; they marked where the shadow fell, and began to dig. [5]
At the foot of a great pine he began to dig. [11]
You got to find out where the shadow of the limb falls at midnight, and that's where you dig! [5]
There, under my brother's guidance, they frolic, build, and dig. [10]
Did they dig? [5]

Sentences containing dig two or more times

To dig in the mellow soil-to dig moderately, for all pleasure should be taken sparingly--is a great thing. [4]
It will take a little time, say all summer, to dig out thoroughly a small patch; but if you once dig it out, and keep it out, you will have no further trouble. [4]

More example sentences with the word dig in them

You'll dig up your pot of money and take it away with you.... What does it matter to you whether our homes are ruined or not? [2]
There's one way yet--let's go and dig up the corpse and look. [5]
A few Thugs were privately detached and sent forward in the dark to select a good killing-place and dig the graves. [5]
Yes, although there was no one in Stratford able to teach him these things, and no library in the little village to dig them out of. [5]
The cholera generally vanquishes a Neapolitan when it seizes him, because, you understand, before the doctor can dig through the dirt and get at the disease the man dies. [5]
The old prince used to approve of them for their endurance at work when they came to Bald Hills to help with the harvest or to dig ponds, and ditches, but he disliked them for their boorishness. [2]
They are required to take poems and analyze them, dig out their common sense, reduce them to statistics, and reproduce them in a luminous prose translation which shall tell you at a glance what the poet was trying to get at. [5]
He had nothing to dig with but his "discus. [5]
The only way to deal with it is to take one part hoe and two parts fingers, and carefully dig it out, not leaving a joint anywhere. [4]
But whoever wishes to compel the field to bear fruits must dig sturdily, draw the buckets from the well, plough, and sow the seed. [10]
If we get time, the night of the escape, we'll dig one. [5]
He will dig thy grave deep, and wait long. [11]
They filled up the holes of the conversation with running commentaries, giving a dig at the luckless narrator and a side-slap at each other, until one would have given his oath they were sworn enemies. [9]
Certain troops of the heretics had already crossed the borders, and our good town had to strengthen its walls and dig its moat deeper to make ready for storm and siege. [10]
They tell me that those who dig down in the edge of the shallow water find sunken walls, and the remains of old foundations of Roman workmanship. [4]
He told me that the first pair of rabbits imported into Australasia bred so wonderfully that within six months rabbits were so thick in the land that people had to dig trenches through them to get from town to town. [5]
Well, thinks I, that looks powerful bad for Tom, and I'll dig out for the island right off. [5]
But I am telling you nothing but the truth, and I wish I may never draw another breath if that chimney didn't smoke so that the smoke actually got caked in it and I had to dig it out with a pickaxe! [5]
But I can tell you, Jim, Uncle Abner was down on them people that's all the time trying to dig a lesson out of everything that happens, no matter whether--" But Jim was asleep. [5]
Pity but somebody'd take that poor old lunatic and dig all that poetry rubbage out of him. [5]
You dig a square in the steep base of the mountain, and set up two uprights and top them with two joists. [5]
He does not seem to have been very accomplished in the handling of agricultural implements either, for it is told in the family that his little son, Waldo, seeing him at work with a spade, cried out, "Take care, papa,--you will dig your leg. [6]
They always dig out with a case-knife--and not through dirt, mind you; generly it's through solid rock. [5]
But I insist on saying she's your type--she's the kind of a person artists do dig up and marry--only better than most of them, far better. [9]
Finally Huck leaned on his shovel, swabbed the beaded drops from his brow with his sleeve, and said: "Where you going to dig next, after we get this one? [5]
Whether elected or not, I go for distributing the proceeds of the sales of the public lands to the several States, to enable our State, in common with others, to dig canals and construct railroads without borrowing money and paying the interest on it. [7]
Consequently, they do not dig graves, they blast them out with power and fuse. [5]
Often it took more than half a day of hard labor with shovel and hoe to dig the canal. [4]
Wasn't I a little idiot not--to know that you'd make for a place like this and dig a hole and stay in it, and let the world go hang? [9]
There is no literature, ancient or modern, that they do not dig up by the roots and turn over, no history that they do not drag before the club for final judgment. [4]
I do not know which one it is, but I think it difficult not to believe that a god who could build a world around Benares would not be intelligent enough to build it around the tank too, and not have to dig it. [5]
Yesternight they had journeyed forth as far as Sinterspuhel, and there, at midnight, had stood at the cross-roads and shot with these same arrow-heads to the four quarters, to the end that they might dig for treasure wheresoever the shafts might fall. [10]
You'll never dig it out of the Astor Library. [5]
And if there is anything in it that his enterprise can dig out, he shall have an interest. [5]
Indeed, her first intimation of his presence was a dig in her arm. [9]
He had been in the National Gallery several times, and over and over again he had visited the picture places in Bond Street as he passed; but he wanted to get behind art life, to dig out the heart of it. [11]
Do not dabble in the muddy sewer of politics, nor linger by the enchanted streams of literature, nor dig in far-off fields for the hidden waters of alien sciences. [3]
I engaged him, I say, to dig some post-holes. [6]
Underneath, it is honey-combed with caves; it would be of no use to dig wells in such a place; they would not hold water--you would not find any for them to hold, for that matter. [5]
Tom took the hellum, I stood by to let go the anchor, and Jim he straddled the bow to dig through the fog with his eyes and watch out for danger ahead. [5]
Then pretty soon he says: "Come to think, the logs ain't a-going to do; they don't have log walls in a dungeon: we got to dig the inscriptions into a rock. [5]
I dig the ground, and plant things that are to live and grow. [12]
She found it grinding hard work to dig out anything to say. [5]
To dig a grave in the rock was impracticable, but the loose stones were scooped away to the depth of a foot or so, the body was deposited, and the stones were replaced over it. [4]
But say--where you going to dig first? [5]
The younger man followed him breathlessly, and only joined him when he had already begun to dig out the earth with his hands at the foot of a cliff. [10]
You fall into error occasionally, because you mistake the name of a person for the name of a thing, and waste a good deal of time trying to dig a meaning out of it. [5]
Sometimes he would erect houses of red stone, often he would dig great caves of many chambers and halls in the sand. [10]
I'm going to dig up this root as soon as it is light enough. [4]
Who's going to dig up that section? [9]
I'm going to dig in the clay. [5]
Do they in concert dig in the encyclopaedias, and write papers about the correlation of forces, and about Savonarola, and about the Three Kings? [4]
The De Beers Company dig out $400,000 worth of diamonds per week, now. [5]
New earthworks had been commenced at the important fort of Valkenburg; but part of the land, where the workmen were obliged to dig, belonged to a brewer, who demanded a large sum in compensation for his damaged meadow. [10]
But Professor Snail and the others said: "You are hired to dig, sir--that is all. [5]
It took him and the other scavengers nine days to dig matter enough out of Joan's testimony and their own inventions to build up the new mass of charges. [5]
Idle and shiftless and evil ye are, while the earth cries out to give you of its plenty, a great harvest from a little seed, if ye will but dig and plant, and plough and sow and reap, and lend your backs to toil. [11]
Jim, however, had an idea; he said he was going to dig sweet-flag, and see if another carriage wouldn't come along. [4]
When they dig alongside of them, they find ranges of ponderous masonry that are as perfect in every detail as they were the day those old Cyclopian giants finished them. [5]
It would have all happened just so, if we had never begun to dig that hole. [5]
This was Lorenz Abenberger, the apothecary's son, erewhile a companion of Herdegen in his youth, and he who, after he had beguiled the other pueri to dig for treasure, had been turned out of the school. [10]
So I sent a strong party, with some borrowed hoes, in charge of two chiefs of service, to dig a stairway in the soil all the way up, and this I ascended, roped to the guides. [5]
And I've been a silver miner and know how to dig and shovel and drill and put in a blast. [5]
He went to a rotten log near at hand and began to dig under one end of it with his Barlow knife. [5]
If I had a hundred men or so, I would dig a grave for the maid of the hill, heigho! [11]

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