Sentence examples for digging the earth from inspiring English sources

She is 78, her back is now crooked and yet she is still digging the earth.

The locals, whomever they are, are far from oblivious to the American culinary revolution of the last 20 years; to the contrary, they may have had a hand (or two) in supporting it, digging the earth and pitching in the oysters.

"When I look at him, digging the earth, selling gas and Snickers bars with the 'Massoud' on his uniform where his medals used to be, there is a complete distance between who he was, how he sees himself, and how he must reinvent himself," Sir Ben said.

William Downes, 79, who was taking a break from digging the earth at his Hatton Road plot, said he and his sister, Ellen Boulton, enjoyed their break from the planes and from the noise of kids from a nearby school, who were off for Easter.

Local people are also uncertain about the locations of the sa-dak so that care is required when digging the earth, for example performing rituals before building houses.

Older people in Samdo remember a time when it was taboo to collect the fungus on yul-lha or in fact any land, because digging the earth kills insects – a sin - and may disturb earth spirits.

For example the Brush-tailed Bettong digs the earth, shifting five to seven tonnes of soil each year.

It holds the weight of the plane a moment, but then the wheels dig, the earth tugs, the Vimy sinks, the nose dips, the tail lifts.

My grandmother would go to the spot where they had stood — many people went and dug the earth where the sugar silo was.

This is a dangerous trend, as Mahatma Gandhi warned: "To forget how to dig the earth and tend the soil is to forget ourselves".

It is in a neighbouring field that crowds of men race to dig the earth up fast enough to receive the bodies.