Those diggings were all worked out a long time ago.

He spent some time on the diggings at various jobs.

She herself is at the diggings tonight, and I expect a message to go to her.

"Yet all his men seem to be at work in the diggings.

Numerous other books about, or based on, the diggings have been written.

When gold was discovered in 1851, he went to the diggings and had some success.

The diggings to the westward were good enough for them.

The Chinese came back and lived in a separate part of the diggings.

He must be back in the burrows or diggings like them.

By 1881 there were more than 2000 people living on the gold diggings or in the towns.

More recent archaeological diggings suggest that the building might have taken a different form.

Only black men could stand the conditions of physical labour in the diggings.

However, the ground proved to be too hard and water kept flooding the diggings.

Young men and some adventurous women from every social class headed for the diggings.

And the diggings have gone so far that a few strokes of the pick would bring you out to it.

"You mean some of the men in the diggings don't have claims?"

They went away when the surface diggings gave out.

Over the driver's head Ralph stared down into the diggings.

This caused a gold rush and there were soon about 700 people on the diggings.

The report created "great excitement" in the city, and parties set out to find the diggings.

Gold was discovered here about the same time as at the other diggings, and quite a town sprang up.

Something attracted his attention on the lawn beyond the shelter diggings.

He issued an invite to his diggings in the Temple.

Most of the Chinese moved to new diggings nearby, and some returned soon afterward.

There are a lot of men of that sort in the diggings.

And all the digging will have to be done by hand.

He has given the parents until May 10 to do their digging.

I did a little digging, and your name came up.

You and I will stay behind to do the digging.

But digging is a thing of the past, he said.

Not a word or a sound, other than the digging.

Nothing further is said and they return to their digging.

Can I go and give a hand with the digging?

And I should have had to do all the digging myself.

They made the boy continue digging, but he found nothing.

But no one wanted to go in and start digging.

Up until now, the digging had been not much more than something for me to do.

There's the big digging which we just came out of.

The digging on the site is to end this summer.

That means the digging was done five to six months ago.

He knows where water may be had for the digging.

It was time he did some more digging of his own.

And of course there was no end to the digging.

It seems the digging here could go on for a very long time.

But that did not mean he was going to stop running and digging.

"Then the next day, you start over and begin another two months of digging."

But that would have been the case had the digging taken only an hour.

It happened three years to the day after digging began on the English side.

During the early days, water would surface even with a little digging on the ground.

"I started about 25 years ago doing country digging," he said.