"Dig up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... half. The sand underneath has to get hot. I tell you what, we'll dig up some more and put them in the hot ashes after these are done, to cook and take away with us. They'll do all right while we're ...
— Jack at Sea - All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy • George Manville Fenn
... many things I don't want to speak of—even to you. It isn't easy for a woman to go back and dig up a lot of ugly memories and try to ...
— The Easiest Way - A Story of Metropolitan Life • Eugene Walter and Arthur Hornblow
... mother, and a Hungry Jim for a father, Royce might be too tough for anything but a Coney Island spiel-fest. In that case J. Bayard would have to dig up a new scheme. So we starts out to ...
— Shorty McCabe on the Job • Sewell Ford
... To-day Mrs. Murphy says the wolves are about to dig up the dead bodies around her shanty, and the nights are too cold to watch them, but we hear ...
— History of the Donner Party • C.F. McGlashan
... and to be offered in common, and a choice made out of the best citizens, at first he was eager to make it public, and to show his countrymen the real character of Lysander. But Lacratidas, a wise man, and at that time chief of the Ephors, hindered Agesilaus, and said, they ought not to dig up Lysander again, but rather to bury with him a discourse, composed so plausibly and subtlety. Other honors, also, were paid him after his death; and amongst these they imposed a fine upon those who had engaged themselves to marry his daughters, and then ...
— Plutarch's Lives • A.H. Clough
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