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After 36 hours underground and "moling" for 150ft they broke the surface outside the wire and crept to the nearby woods.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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After 36 hours underground and "moling" for 150ft they broke the surface outside the wire and crept to the nearby woods.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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I can't even understand which house you think I'm moling for.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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"Say, Song, you see something makee you flaid this moling?" said Stella, imitating Song's pidgin English.
Ted Strong's Motor Car Edward C. Taylor
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To go moling into such a place without timbering would be a dangerous business, but the crisis was one that justified any risk.
The Highgrader William MacLeod Raine 1912
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I pleaded that he was a bit exacting, that the Curator had a very cold scent to puzzle out, and that he had tried plodding about from ruins to ruins, moling and sapping and mining, not to speak of writing to the Rhodesian Press.
Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales Arthur Shearly Cripps 1910
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Sweet pungent smells of damp earth rose to their nostrils, -- fragrance of reviving things, of stirring sap, of diligent seeds moling their way to light and air.
Out of the Ashes Ethel Watts Mumford 1909
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Southern express folded beside 'em, and I put enough daylight into my proposition to dazzle the whole conclave into setting signatures to papers they'd been moling over for weeks.
Rose of Old Harpeth Maria Thompson Daviess 1898
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With great pleasure I have observed the iucrea&iog zeal of the Christian community in pro - moling the missionary cause.
The Panoplist (and Missionary magazine) conducted by an association of ... 1812
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