At least, they didn't when I was last in Rome.

But instead of digging in rivers... they dig in their thoughts.

Like those guys drilling for me.

Some of them plow ditches, take out irrigation water.

Congratulations, anyway.

Yes, Long Beach. They're spudding in a new well.

Fliers are gentlemen, not peasants to dig in the earth. So I am surprised.

In the old days they used to dig down, find metals and say

And what they're doing is very interesting they're digging through the cow patties for the maggots, the grubs, the larvae of flies.

A man shouting, Shut up! The dogs frantically snarling, claws scrabbling, then her her voice hoarse, harsh, hollow, almost only a tone, incoherent, a note, a squawk, bone on metal, metal gone molten, calling them back,

They go out, they get the food, they dig the nest, and the queen never comes out again.

And if you mark ants that are working outside, and dig up a colony, you never see them deep down.

Let the men dig and women, let the old men and boys make torches, gather all things that'll make a noise!

They were consistently dug as limestone quarries and by the 18th century, the caving in of some of these quarries posed safety threats, so the government ordered reinforcing of the existing quarries and dug new observation tunnels in order to monitor and map the whole place.

Also, if you look at prison movies, sometimes the way that the guards torture the prisoners is to get them to dig a hole, and when the prisoner is finished, they ask him to fill the hole back up and then dig again.

World War I was a writer's war, and there's a lot of metaphorical resonance in living men digging holes where they would in time die.

In the old days they used to take a lump of Pentelic marble and drill from the surface in order to identify the skin, the appearance, what Aristotle defined as the distinction between substance and appearance, the thing that makes things visible, but here we're working from the other side.

At this moment there was a noise outside the front door, a sort of scrabbling noise, as if somebody were trying to paw his way through the woodwork.

Also, if you look at prison movies, sometimes the way that the guards torture the prisoners is to get them to dig a hole and when the prisoner is finished, they ask him to fill the hole back up and then dig again.

They were consistently dug as limestone quarries and by the 18th century, the caving in of some of these quarries posed safety threats, so the government ordered reinforcing of the existing quarries and dug new observation tunnels in order to monitor and map the whole place.

A man shouting, Shut up! The dogs frantically snarling, claws scrabbling, then her her voice hoarse, harsh, hollow, almost only a tone, incoherent, a note, a squawk, bone on metal, metal gone molten, calling them back, Come back darlings, come back dear ones.

26. On 18 August 1993, between 0800 and 1100 hours, Iraqi earth diggers were seen digging individual trenches in the border area of Shalamcheh at the geographical coordinates of 3031 4802.

3. On 2 August 1993, 11 Iraqi personnel were seen digging a trench at the geographical coordinates of 420024 on the map of Khosravi, west of border pillar 53 1 and south of border pillar 53 2 and the Manzarieh sentry post.

11. On 10 May 1993, at 0940 hours, 7 Iraqi soldiers were seen digging a canal at the GCs of 99850 95900 on the map of Meimeh River, in no man apos s land, between border pillars 24 4 and 24 5.

12. On 7 August 1993, at 0730 hours, 26 Iraqis were seen digging a trench at the geographical coordinates of 427 024 on the map of Khosravi, west of border pillar 53 1 and south of border pillar 53 2 and the Manzarieh sentry post in Iraq.

35. On 26 August 1993, at 1030 hours, a number of Iraqi military personnel were seen digging a canal at the geographical coordinates of 493 505 on the map of Sumar in no man apos s land, west of height 402 and border pillars 44 4 and 44 5.

93 71742 (E) 231293 ... 7. On 4 August 1993, at 0700 and 0810 hours, six Iraqi military personnel were seen digging a canal at the geographical coordinates of 42700 02400 on the map of Khosravi, west of border pillar 53 1 and south of border pillar 53 2 and the Manzarieh sentry post in Iraq.