Lexicographical Neighbors of Gophered
Literary usage of Gophered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1913)
"The land was gophered, gouged, tossed and tumbled in great red heaps and depressions.
Every square inch of it had been combed for gold. ..."
2. The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States by Henry Gannett (1905)
"Much work has been done in the pa,st; some of the ground has been ''gophered''
considerably, and although there is still good ground, the condition in which ..."
3. The Land of Poco Tiempo by Charles Fletcher Lummis (1893)
"At first were those who pried in the debris-choked lower rooms of the pueblo,
and gophered under the mighty walls of the temple. ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1865)
"The gophered edge of the New Red on the Lancaster County limestone forbids it,
and shows how entirely superficial the New Red is. No river section shows the ..."
5. The Metropolitan (1843)
"Mourning is never very deep when it is trimmed and flounced, and slashed, and
gophered, and braided and cut into a hundred fantastic fashions. ..."
6. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1902)
"Various Mexican miners robbed the pillars of rich ore left in the workings, "gophered"
the rich streaks of ore, and sorted the dump. In 1883, Judge Flipper, ..."
7. The Mineral Industry by Richard Pennefather Rothwell (1913)
"The production in Missouri comes chiefly from Washington County where the mineral
is gophered by diggers who sell to a few buying con- ..."
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