Borings

So, did the Borings stand outside their house and sue everyone who dared look at it?

Christine and Aaron Boring sued Google for privacy violation, negligence, trespassing and unjust enrichment for showing their house in Street View. Ann Althouse 2009

A couple -- literally called "the Borings" -- asked Google for damages for "Street View" pictures of their swimming pool on the Web.

CNBC's Maria Bartiromo Asks "Who's in Charge Here?" - It's Anyone's Guess. MediaBizBuzz April 7 2008

Borings made from the end of Pier 29 indicated bedrock anywhere from seventy-seven to ninety-two feet down.

The Great Bridge David McCullough 1972

Borings are made in the earth from the crust to a depth of 600 or 700 feet, when large reservoirs of natural gas are "struck."

Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 Various

Borings at different places show the fen soil to vary in depth from 24ft. at Boston to 14½ft. at Martindale; but, as it has been gradually dried by drainage, it has considerably shrunk in thickness, and buried trees, which only a few years ago were beyond the reach of plough or spade, are now not uncommonly caught by the ploughshare.

Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter

Borings have been made only in the neighborhood of Azua.

Santo Domingo A Country with a Future Otto Schoenrich

The necessary width of trench for the construction of the retaining walls was determined by the elevation of the rock, as shown by the borings, and only in the case of the dip between Borings 303 and 305 did the variation lead to any difficulty.

Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Site of the Terminal Station. Paper No. 1157 George C. Clarke

It will be noted that, except in three cases, Borings 313, 328, and 333, the two profiles correspond very closely at the points where the borings were made, but they differ widely between those points, a variation of 5 ft.

Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Site of the Terminal Station. Paper No. 1157 George C. Clarke

Borings made in the deltas of great rivers such as the

The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900

Borings had shown that the excavation for the tunnels would break out of the rock about 200 ft. east of First Avenue.

Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The East River Division. Paper No. 1152 Alfred Noble 1879