"Digger" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... means grasshopper soup. It is Indian, and suggestive of Indians. They say it is Pi-ute—possibly it is Digger. I am satisfied it was named by the Diggers—those degraded savages who roast their dead relatives, then mix the human grease and ashes of bones with tar, and "gaum" it thick all over their heads and foreheads and ears, and go caterwauling ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... charitably taken in by an old lady who prevented her from following the sad procession of her daughter's funeral. A man of triple functions, the bell-ringer, beadle, and grave-digger of the parish, had dug a grave in the half-acre cemetery behind the church,—a church well known, a classic church, with a square tower and pointed roof covered with slate, supported on the outside by strong corner buttresses. Behind the apse of the chancel, ...
— The Thirteen • Honore de Balzac
... it was too late. The place was rushed. In other words, diggers swarmed to the spot, with no idea of law but digger's law. ...
— A Simpleton • Charles Reade
... will become a hundred—the one hundred will become two, three, four, five, until at last one individual will be left, for whom there will be no grave-digger." ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... what he had done, he did not very much desire to go, there as he would probably have been shot as a deserter; for Captain Raminez was a savage fellow, and more than willing to punish transgressions against his orders. This deserter, Banker by name, was an American, who had been a gold-digger, a gambler, a rough, and a dead shot in California, and he was very well able to take care of himself in any part ...
— The Adventures of Captain Horn • Frank Richard Stockton
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