Example Sentences

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A kind of claim-jumping mold had moved in and started its own colonies among the staph.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I really think I should have been more successful than I was at claim-jumping."

From A Damaged Reputation by Bindloss, Harold

We have seen that all empires have been built up by a series of successful aggressions, and that claim-jumping still characterizes the relations of the nations.

From The Soul of Democracy The Philosophy of the World War in Relation to Human Liberty by Griggs, Edward Howard

In fact, in our day land-robbery, claim-jumping, is become a European governmental frenzy.

From Following the Equator, Part 7 by Twain, Mark

There is no claim-jumping, as the Canadian laws are rigid and well enforced.

From All about the Klondyke gold mines by Knox, J. Armoy