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digs up

vb. (en-third-person singulardig up)

Usage examples of "digs up".

Beast is called Beast not because he looks like a beast, but because he digs up carrion like a beast and is rumored to have cannibalized some of his victims, too.

But he who looks for amber, steps on the thistle, jumps into the willow, and digs up the mouse will find in the dike a dead and mummified maiden: Tulla Tulla, that's Duke Swantopolk's little daughter Tulla, who was always shoveling about for mice in the sand, bit into things with two incisor teeth, and never wore shoes or stockings: Barefoot run the children, and the willows shake themselves, and the Vistula flows for evermore, and the sun now gone now back again, and the ferry comes or goes or lies groaning in its berth, while the milk thickens until the spoon stands upright, and slowly runs .

I'm the odd woman who goes abroad and digs up pots and would rather mix with the dirty Arabs than good Christian folk.

Any detail the team digs up from me, you can get cracking on immediately.

What happens if Fury digs up another BabyParamount and starts the same shit all over?

Reading to him from my History of Ancient Egypt, admiring the bones he digs up from the rose garden I have not complained, Peabodyyou know I never complainbut I have been lonely for Ramses.

Now she digs up some of this country's roots and replants them in her own garden (which one might say is—.

Eliot digs up a toolbox from belowdecks and spends the next twelve hours patching things together to the point where the engine can be started and the yacht can be steered.

For she can ask a hundred questions about even the least interesting relic that she digs up from some corner.

It digs up the camas roots, wild onions, and an occasional luckless woodchuck or gopher.

And the man who gives himself to drinking intoxicating liquors, he, even in this world, digs up his own root.

Her mother digs up brooms, vacuum cleaner, garbage bags, and Laura follows unable to defend her fortresses of boxes, paper and carefully positioned furniture from being torn down and restructured into normal and deadly order.