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1. Then we began to excavate our dug out as Elijah said
2. In 2013 Lottery funding was earmarked to excavate, restore and feature the castle
3. “We survey this chamber in preparation for Kleti tunneling teams, who will excavate a large corridor between here and the inside of the crater, and a smaller corridor to the lobby of the resort
4. harder to excavate as I dug about a foot deep, and the task
5. the point required, and then excavate a funnel downwards at that point
6. But to excavate such a funnel, or to step the
7. excavate the site if needs be
8. applications to excavate the chambers and tunnels under
9. excavate both of those sites at a later date, everything here
10. It‘s another ―E‖, but this time it stands for excavate
11. It recommends the taking on of a practice in order to excavate the
12. need to send a team to excavate the ruins under New NewYork so that we can prevent
13. Wolfi had completed the blasting to excavate earth for the stone bridge abutments at Hartish Creek and the boys had accomplished the creosote soaking of a large number of logs that would be used in the construction of the bridge’s structure
14. - Excavate underground and take out its treasures as Allah ordered
15. Those are the qualities that we want to excavate from within ourselves, by which we build bridges to others
16. With the soft, moist qualities of meekness and gentleness, we can excavate the qualities of peace, love, faith, and perseverance
17. began to excavate where the killer sifted with his
18. necessary and they would excavate the whole damn
19. They found Jonquil’ s headstone and began to excavate
20. Run, yes! Run! What? Grab a shovel, dig, excavate, save a chunk of this all-too-crumbling sand? Find a repairman, race him back here with plaster of Paris to cast a mold of some small fragile part of these? No, no
21. Tegetmeier, I separated two combs, and put between them a long, thick, rectangular strip of wax: the bees instantly began to excavate minute circular pits in it; and as they deepened these little pits, they made them wider and wider until they were converted into shallow basins, appearing to the eye perfectly true or parts of a sphere, and of about the diameter of a cell
22. It was most interesting to observe that, wherever several bees had begun to excavate these basins near together, they had begun their work at such a distance from each other that by the time the basins had acquired the above stated width (i
23. As soon as this occurred, the bees ceased to excavate, and began to build up flat walls of wax on the lines of intersection between the basins, so that each hexagonal prism was built upon the scalloped edge of a smooth basin, instead of on the straight edges of a three-sided pyramid as in the case of ordinary cells
24. The bees instantly began on both sides to excavate little basins near to each other, in the same way as before; but the ridge of wax was so thin, that the bottoms of the basins, if they had been excavated to the same depth as in the former experiment, would have broken into each other from the opposite sides
25. Thus, as I believe, the most wonderful of all known instincts, that of the hive-bee, can be explained by natural selection having taken advantage of numerous, successive, slight modifications of simpler instincts; natural selection having, by slow degrees, more and more perfectly led the bees to sweep equal spheres at a given distance from each other in a double layer, and to build up and excavate the wax along the planes of intersection
26. It reads remarkably well, with just the spice of wholesome plaint that one loves to excavate
27. I at first encountered much repugnance on the part of the inhabitants to excavate the tombs; finally, with some money and very long explanations, I brought them to terms and, thanks to my tomb-hunters, I found and excavated the necropoli of Horil, Beri, Djon, Tülü, Mistaïl, Hiveri, etc
28. "At Moukri, thanks to the kindness of a Kurd chief, I was enabled to excavate a tomb which, although it held no objects of value, still contained some interesting relics
1. Many of the legends found in the literature of other civilizations can be excavated in the ruins here
2. There was a little bit of water in an excavated pool, enough to grow enough vine to cover the lodge and fill the kegs within
3. had run like that as one could have had all the fruits The remains were excavated by archaeologists led for himself, they said: “UBUNTU, how can one of us be by William Kelso of Preservation Virginia, a private happy if all the other ones are sad”?
4. It reminded her of the palace of Knossos excavated by Evans, but was somewhat larger than Reston as she remembered it from her youth, and the colors were somewhat more tasteful than the pictures she remembered
5. He and George excavated a deep cellar and after sealing it against leaks then further insulating bins within it to receive the next summer's supply, decided they would also reuse the initial method as well, though with fewer buoys
6. Harry followed behind them setting and plumbing the poles in their excavated holes
7. As for their cousins the Rock Dwarves, they have long since excavated this world’s suitable resources
8. She was in one of two enormous, fish farming chambers excavated in the ice 20 metres under the surface of Europa, another of Jupiter’s moons
9. Throughout the day, a trench had been excavated, behind the entrance to the underworld
10. Each animal joyfully tossed the fuel into the trenches, so expertly excavated
11. Six battle-hardened Ferrets, streamed out from small holes excavated near the log
12. 4 million years old that was excavated in Ethiopia
13. the laboratories at Shinra Headquarters using excavated Mako
14. themselves made their way to the small cave Mick had excavated
15. Rooms will be excavated in the sides, and the area surrounding the lake will be leveled and landscaped
16. From the number of workers who had been going to and from the corridors beyond those doorways, it was obvious that other large rooms had been excavated adjoining this one
17. The hole it had been excavated from gaped in the slope below it
18. Here are the hotel facilities and apartments for staff members and residents, all excavated beneath the surface of the outside of the volcano, all equipped with hidden doors and windows to the outside to maintain the existing natural look of the mountain
19. They first excavated these tunnels from the lower floors of the manufacturing levels inside the mountain, to the surface of the stone six meters below the sea, and they built this
20. He also confirmed that there are underground Alliance bases on our moon, in natural caverns that have been further excavated to accommodate them
21. An excavated trench revealed a short stone path leading to the entrance of a square room having walls I estimated to be about twelve feet in length
22. They first excavated these tunnels from the lower floors of the manufacturing levels inside the mountain, to the surface of the stone twenty feet below the sea, and they built this
23. “We’ve only been here two days but have part of a domicile excavated,” I said
24. We stopped at the edge of the excavated area where Matt and Tim were on their knees, trowels and brushes in hand
25. I looked up where he was pointing and said, “Then we need to get it excavated so it doesn’t get covered up again
26. Unfortunately, some of the additions were excavated with less care than others,’ she sent a baleful stare to Ishbel before continuing, ‘and we are now reaping the problems
27. The workers did not dig so much as they excavated
28. under the Temple of David when the original Knights Templars excavated there
29. The gardens in the centre of the block had been excavated and thousands of tons of soil and clay had been removed and dumped on land to the south of the city in the foothills of the Bavarian Alps, land owned by the Aryans and filled by trucks also owned by them
30. A huge hole had been excavated, going down about seven metres or
31. Sunk up to his neck in a morass of dead brandies and rotting flowers, he flung the dirt of the garden all about after having finished with the courtyard and the backyard, and he excavated so deeply under the foundations of the east wing of the house that one night they woke up in terror at what seemed to be an earthquake, as much because of the trembling as the fearful underground creaking
32. this artefact over the past year, It was originally excavated
33. the advance team around the excavated city
34. On completion of the work, it had been back filled with a mixture of excavated material
35. The drill rig was cleared away, and the excavated rock chippings were bulldozed into the hole
36. The grader lumbered across the paddock with its high beam creating a menacing picture ahead of it until eventually it highlighted the gaping crater flanked by the pile of carcases one side and the mound of excavated earth the other
37. When the tunnels were discovered the North Koreans claimed they were coal mines, although they were excavated through igneous rock that the Communists painted black
38. Half of it had been excavated in strip mining
39. They were part of a huge funerary complex south of Cairo, excavated in nineteen-
40. It was excavated in 1895 and from 1896 until 1900 everyone who participated in the excavation died
41. Foundations (for walls) and plinths (concrete supports for machines) could be excavated concurrently, but need to be cast as separate items
42. known as the "Caucasian mummies" They were excavated
43. "It has been excavated, studied, cataloged and everything else you can
44. excavated most of the area enclosed by the canvas
45. fragments found at the excavated dumpsites of the
46. excavated the ruins of Solomon’s Temple
47. nineteenth century AD archeologists who excavated the
48. Excavated by the Oriental Institute, 1955-56 OIM A30553
49. It was excavated in the twentieth
50. With much difficulty and some danger she was dug out, for Jo was so overcome with laughter while she excavated that her knife went too far, cut the poor foot, and left a lasting memorial of one artistic attempt, at least
1. Archaeologists excavating a trash pit at the An anthropologist proposed a game to children in an Jamestown colony site in Virginia have found the African tribe
2. The ruins of the city were discovered about a hundred years ago, and archaeologists have been excavating ever since
3. In excavating this city, a mosaic wall was found, dating to sometime before 3,000 BC
4. Only by excavating buried facts and adjusting glorified stories might history teach
5. Like every construction there, the home had been made by excavating rooms in the ice by removing blocks of it, and the blocks were then used to build more rooms above on the surface, then magically melted together and strengthened
6. We’ll build a resort on the outer slopes of the volcano, above the treeline only, again by excavating into the stone
7. “Adam said he was excavating a home for me there
8. I imagined his ancestor standing on this hilltop we were now excavating and looking at the area, deciding how to drain it
9. We’d located the site we called the smithy, a building with large fire pits, and started excavating it as soon as it was mapped
10. “But we just found this village! We’ll need to be here for a few years, excavating this hill fort
11. Archeologists excavating what was once the kingdom of Calquax; which is now a state of Barsoon, found that the people had irrigation systems just a little behind what is used today, which seemed to have been built around 7180 B
12. excavating to find out what is causing the earthquakes
13. A year ago, when Gregor first saw the warehouse, he came up with the idea of excavating a chamber inside it, with a short tunnel to the sea
14. The ditch had been formed when excavating soil to create the road
15. The side panels of the casket, caked with soil had been gouged in places by the excavating tools and the smell of damp earth merged with the subliminal odours that accompany death
16. As he pulled into the site, his excavating subcontractor was talking to two
17. Excavating for the foundation and crawl space
18. and he was earnestly working at excavating a pond for his plastic
19. pain, she returned to excavating with a zeal she
20. So I think that excavating those sands would bring to light a great many weapons and tools of Egyptian origin
21. They’re involved in excavating metals — both precious and base metals, ferrous and nonferrous — as well as transforming these metals into finished products and subsequently distributing the end products to consumers
22. ‘The only point which I could not quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press in excavating fuller’s-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out like gravel from a pit
23. When I looked again, the busy handling-machine had already put together several of the pieces of apparatus it had taken out of the cylinder into a shape having an unmistakable likeness to its own; and down on the left a busy little digging mechanism had come into view, emitting jets of green vapour and working its way round the pit, excavating and embanking in a methodical and discriminating manner
24. The consequence is, that upon breaking into the hold, and unloading one of these whale cemeteries, in the Greenland dock, a savor is given forth somewhat similar to that arising from excavating an old city grave-yard, for the foundations of a Lying-in-Hospital
25. Among the more curious of such remains is part of a skull, which in the year 1779 was disinterred in the Rue Dauphine in Paris, a short street opening almost directly upon the palace of the Tuileries; and bones disinterred in excavating the great docks of Antwerp, in Napoleon's time
26. This interstice was filled with wood, by plugging the larger cylinder with this material, and excavating the plug till it would permit the smaller brass cylinder to be driven in
27. The exact extent and character of the low ground in these two directions can only be determined by excavating the ancient level, which, as it appears to me, has not been reached by the deep new railroad cutting running across this section north of the so-called Theseum
28. Brugsch has been excavating during the past spring in the Fayoum
29. Count d'Hulst has been excavating at Behbet, near Mansourah, on behalf of the Egypt Exploration Fund
30. Taylor has been excavating here for the Egypt exploration fund, in continuation of the previous year's work
31. Petrie communicates the following report to the Academy: "During the last four months I have been excavating at this place, the capital of Khuenaten
32. Flinders Petrie is excavating the ruins of the old city of Khuenaten, while M
33. *—, skeleton found in excavating the Morris Canal, xiv, 188