diggins

My narrations about the gold regions may have upset some quiet country homes and sent some squatters out to the "diggins" across the rockies.

Recollections of a naval life : including the cruises of the Confederate States steamers, "Sumter" and "Alabama", 1900

This knock-down argument in favor of big mosquitoes used the Hoosier up, and the logician started on a new track, to explain how numerous bear were in his "diggins," where, he represented them to be "about as plenty as blackberries, and a little plentifuller."

The Hive of "The Bee-Hunter," A Repository of Sketches, Including Peculiar American Character, Scenery, and Rural Sports 1854

This supposed derivation is by no means weakened by the fact, that miners and others have gone to the "diggins" from parts at no great distance from the last-mentioned district; and we may therefore, although the radical is pretty generally diffused over the kingdom, attribute its better known application to _them_.

Notes and Queries, Number 180, April 9, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various 1852

'Yes,' said I. 'You are the first of that sort that's bin in these diggins for many a day.'

Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States. By William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Author of "Three Years in Europe." With a Sketch of the Author's Life 1953

But still, I must say, you're about the last man I expected to see in these diggins.

The Cryptogram A Novel James De Mille

Say, old fellow, when that sky-pilot casts his eyes on that tent of ours to-morrow morning there will be something doing about these diggins, and don't you forget it.

A Pirate of Parts Richard Neville

Pray forgive me, even though I confess that I intend, some day, when I feel statistically inclined, to bore you with some profound remarks upon the claiming, drifting, sluicing, ditching, fluming, and coyoting politics of the "diggins."

The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe

This man, when "the diggins" broke out in Melbourne, sold his little property for a third of its value to a worthless fellow, whose one great passion was a love for the drink.

Frank Oldfield Lost and Found T.P. Wilson

All things considered (the Australian diggins included), we came to the conclusion, from our small experience of Saxon mines, that there are more profitable, and even more agreeable occupations in the world than mining — pleasanter ways, in short, of getting a living, than digging for silver in Saxony, or even for gold in Australia.

A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie

One mornin ', in 'bout three weeks' time, I shall get up in my diggins in the Mile End Road, and I shall look round the room, and at these clothes 'angin' over the bed, and at this yer concertina '(he gave it an affectionate squeeze),' and I shall feel myself gettin 'scarlet all over.

Novel Notes 1893