"Digger" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Mat dashed the letter down angrily on his knee, and cursed the writer of it with some of those gold-digger's imprecations which it had been his misfortune to hear but too often in the past days of his Californian wanderings. It was evidently only by placing considerable constraint upon himself, that he now refrained from crumpling up the letter and throwing ...
— Hide and Seek • Wilkie Collins
... people were generally civilised and humane, compared to gold-diggers I had met on the other side of the globe. My luck, however, was much the same. All I could do was to keep body and soul together, till at last I had to come to the conclusion that I was not cut out for a gold-digger. On my way up to the diggings, I had rested at a station owned by an old gentleman, who seemed to take an interest in me. At all events, as I was going away, he promised to receive me when I got tired of gold-digging, if I would come back to him, and to put me in the ...
— The Gilpins and their Fortunes - A Story of Early Days in Australia • William H. G. Kingston
... size of a rat, but has a short tail and relatively immense forepaws and claws. It is indeed wonderfully developed as a digger. ...
— Wild Animals at Home • Ernest Thompson Seton
... fiction. Where in the whole cycle of romance shall we find anything more wild, grotesque, and sad than the easily authenticated history of Benedict Mol, the treasure-digger of St. James?" ...
— George Borrow - The Man and His Books • Edward Thomas
... the light duties of grave-digger and clerk to the parish of Farlingford in Suffolk with a small but steady business in fish of his own drying, nets of his own netting, and pork slain and dressed ...
— The Last Hope • Henry Seton Merriman
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