...But nothing could be easier than to dig abroad deep ditch, which could be filled from the lake, and the overflowof which would throw itself by a rapid fall into the bed of the Mercy...
Jules Verne William Henry Giles Kingston 「Abandoned」
...So that was the way they did it, eh? Buck confidently selecteda spot, and with much fuss and waste effort proceeded to dig a hole forhimself...
Jack London 「The Call of the Wild」
... “My heart taken up! I! My mind might, perhaps, have been so; but as for my heart, it was—” Louis again perceived that, in order to fill one gulf, he was about to dig another...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「Ten Years Later」
... The ape showedhim the best places to dig for rodents and worms; but the lad onlygagged at the thought of devouring the repulsive things...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「The Son of Tarzan」
...The mud went up to the axles sometimes, and we had to dig the wheels out, and we never went far in a day...
(AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner 「The Story of an African Farm」
...They then dig down a foot or so, and find it...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...The time and labor required to dig up moles and mice from their burrows would, if applied to cultivation, afford food for any amount of fowls or swine, but the latter are seldom met with...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...Here Langley began to dig with a pick, which, just below the surface, struck against some hard substance...
Various 「Stories by English Authors: Africa」
...While Park was speaking to the old man, he called to a slave to bring his paddle along with him, and when he brought it, told him to dig a hole in the ground, pointing to a spot at no great distance...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...He believed all was over, and, while he sank down insensible by her side, his men went out to seek for a spot to dig her grave...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...The negroes have no appropriate burial-places, andfrequently dig the grave in the floor of the deceased’shut, or in the shade of a favourite tree...
Mungo Park 「Travels in the Interior of Africa, Vol. 2 [of 2]」
...The poorer classes sit at home weaving, spinning, or threading beads, whilst the wives attend to household work, prepare the meals, buy and sell, dig and delve...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2」
...We were compelled to go into the plantations, and to dig and hoe the ground...
W.H.G. Kingston 「The Two Supercargoes」
...The head is hideous in the extreme, and armed with huge crooked tusks, the object of which is not so much for defence, as to dig up grass from the bottom of the river...
W.H.G. Kingston 「The Two Supercargoes」
... "Git the ground—git the ground; dig it—pet it, and we'll see what we'll see...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Quest of the Silver Fleece」
... The method of cooking the meat was to dig a trench in the ground about six feet long and eighteen inches deep...
Louis Hughes 「Thirty Years a Slave」
...He will have to dig down deeper into thevery life of the sexes to know why marriage provesso disastrous...
Emma Goldman 「Marriage and Love」
...Also, let us have a little chat with the dig 'em-outs or den-destroyers...
Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock 「Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper」
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