potato-digging

The potato-digging station-master had been gingered up into some activity, for the west-going train was waiting to let us pass, and from it had descended three men who were asking him questions.

The Thirty-Nine Steps 2005

I saw I wasn't going to win this round neither, so I said the hell with it and added a few comments that would have disappointed my old potato-digging mother.

The Silver Spike Cook, Glen 1989

Back home, no matter what the season, she had always raised enough to carry her from one potato-digging time to the next.

The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954

"I was twenty-nine last potato-digging time," said the man.

Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States. By William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Author of "Three Years in Europe." With a Sketch of the Author's Life 1953

As I was looking at the men potato-digging the rain seemed to cut at one's face like a whip, and all through the afternoon Ballinrobe has been deluged.

Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker

But no alleviation could reconcile the sailor and the physician to this novel and unpleasant labour, and the potato-digging was the last piece of work, deserving the name, that either of them did.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various

We see the colleges themselves dragging on a precarious life, yet less revered than cherished by fostering sects, and more hooted at by the advocates of potato-digging and other practical pursuits, than defended by their legitimate protectors.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various

This is hardly the place in which to discuss the loyalty which goes on an amateur potato-digging excursion armed with Remington rifles and navy revolvers and escorted by an army of horse, foot, and police.

Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker

To picture the great potato-digging machine, run by electricity, perhaps, and moving across a thousand-acre field, scooping up earth and potatoes, and dropping the latter into sacks!

The Jungle Upton Sinclair 1923

About three o'clock a five-year-old boy belonging to the potato-digging party, strolled up to the top of the hill.

Three Times and Out: A Canadian Boy's Experience in Germany Nellie L. McClung 1918