Example Sentences

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She knew that Andreo was tunnelling it, and one day a tiny hole proclaimed that his work was accomplished.

From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

I was now exposed to a new danger: should I fall as I was tunnelling away, I should break my legs.

From Dick Onslow Among the Redskins by Soper, George