Writing about artifacts like these — and bits of earth scraped from Christ's tomb, and dollops of oil harvested from sacred lamps — the curators noted, "When brought home, these treasures allowed their owners to revisit the sites of their pilgrimage, to be protected by them, and to occasion miracles".
John had the trowel with him and there was no time to wait, so I found a stick and some loose earth, scraped out a hole, and I filled it.
The tornadoes didn't scorch the earth; they scraped and gouged it.
According to Off-Highway Researconsultingulting firm in London, China has just become the world's largest market for the workhorses of big projects: crawler excavators, which look like long-armed shovels, and wheeled loaders, which look like bulldozers but with scoops in front instead of earth-scraping blades.
He picked up a hoe and began chopping the dry earth with it, scraping the weeds away.
Sikich dragged in a roadkill deer and buried it with leaf litter, scraping the earth as a lion would, so that P-19 might think she'd stumbled on another lion's cache.
Building-size pieces of earth-moving equipment were scraping it all bare.
He scrapes for a few moments, dribbles some water from his water bottle to loosen the hard earth, and then scrapes some more.
Buildings with no space for shops rose on the scraped earth, and it took years for people to return to the sidewalks.
When Chris and Christina Foley drove by, after the birth of their second child, they saw little more than scraped earth and the gate, which was enough to make them stop.
The plant, spread over a square mile of scraped earth at the edge of the ocean, is entered at a gate guarded by an elderly man with a blue uniform and gloves, who bows as he accepts passports from visitors.
