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And it may indeed mark a mass grave: when Victorian workers were tunnelling here, it’s said they hit a wall of human bones.

From The Guardian • Jul. 16, 2020

The mine was under construction and the state administration of work safety said workers who were tunnelling broke into an old shaft filled with water.

From The Guardian • Mar. 31, 2010

We had gone down to bed-rock, and were tunnelling in to meet the hole the Halfbreed had covered up.

From The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)

He would cross over the ridge to where his hirelings were tunnelling.

From The Short Cut by Johnson, Frank Tenney