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Robert Shaw, the eighteenth-century well-digger whose Narrative of Thirty
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Hell, he thought, the job would take a good two days with a well-digger.
Surrender A Dream Jill Barnett 1991
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Hell, he thought, the job would take a good two days with a well-digger.
Surrender A Dream Jill Barnett 1991
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Hell, he thought, the job would take a good two days with a well-digger.
Surrender A Dream Jill Barnett 1991
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Here and there was a sign identifying the house's inhabitant as a metal-worker, mason, carpenter, well-digger, or any of several other occupations.
Elephant Song Longyear, Barry 1982
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In almost every community there was a free negro well-digger or ditcher.
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A pioneer in more ways than one, this little carpenter and farmer and well-digger worked for the cause of woman's political equality as she had worked in the
Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts Girl Scouts of the United States of America 1918
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He dug out a little more earth, in came more water, wetting his feet, and then the frog well-digger cried:
Bully and Bawly No-Tail Howard Roger Garis 1917
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The installation of a water-works system in Tinkletown had made him a well-digger in name only.
Anderson Crow, Detective George Barr McCutcheon 1897
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My well-digger walked slowly over the ground with his divining-rod.
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