Sentence examples for hand digging from inspiring English sources

The work was grueling, casting bricks by hand, digging and laying pipes for about 200 homes.

He considers himself a friend of nature and the product of an outdoor life, including years as a field hand digging shallots and potatoes.

Would you ever come down and give us a hand digging the grave?" "I don't know that this'll be any place for you but I can't leave you here," the woman says, later the same day.

Yet labourers get by in Goru Gutu district much as they have always done, tilling soil by hand, digging ditches, doing whatever it takes to buy a few cups of grain to keep their families alive.This year, however, their efforts have been in vain.

The Sheppard, Winston and Company (for which the tunnel would be named) and more than 350 laborers worked by hand, digging through the silty and unstable shale for nine months starting in the spring of 1887.

Farah, meanwhile, was pushing Zadie's stroller, holding the little girl by the hand, digging their boarding passes out of her own purse, hoisting a logo'd tote bag from the work conference we had just attended, and all but carrying an insulated juice box cooler in her teeth while juggling the rest.

To ground truth the observations, hand dug trenches were excavated to confirm several anomalies.

The fingertips of his calloused right hand dug into wet grass.

Observational geological description, shallow hand dug test pits, vertical electrical sounding and drilling of geotechnical holes were used to understand the overall geological, engineering geological and geo-hydrological set-up of the area.

He had laid in about 40 feet, with each post hand dug, when two old-timers pulled up to admire the work.

High nitrate concentrations were noted in some hand dug wells.