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His head appeared through the drive which he had tunnelled to meet Potch's and Michael's drive on the eastern side of the mine.

From The Black Opal by Prichard, Katharine Susannah

Upon looking a little closer, they found that this ghost was one Tom Brown, an under-gardener; and it was discovered that he had tunnelled a hole from the "tool-house" through the wall into the cellar.

From Second Edition of A Discovery Concerning Ghosts With a Rap at the "Spirit-Rappers" by Cruikshank, George

The train had tunnelled all the earth, blindly, and uglily.

From The Rainbow by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

And there was a sorrowing Italian who had with him a string of seven children who had tunnelled and burrowed their way down the packed aisle of the smoking car and had got irretrievably scattered.

From Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned by Morley, Christopher

To enable this to be carried out the Engineers had tunnelled a way through the cliff rising from West Krithia nullah to a point which they calculated was directly opposite the western end of G11A.

From The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 by Morrison, F. L.