| 1850 - 720 strani
...called " prospecting." or searching for the' most favorable place at which to commence operations 1 had slung pick, shovel, and bar upon my shoulder,...was bright, yellow gold, in little pieces about the ?ize and shape of a grain of barley. Eureka ! Oh how my heart beat ! I sat still and looked at it some... | |
| 1850 - 724 strani
...one extending longitudinally along the rock. It appeared to be filled with a hard, bluish clay ami gravel, which I took out with my knife, and there...was bright, yellow gold, in little pieces about the «ize and shape of a grain of barley. Eureka ! Oh how my heart beat ! I sat still and looted at it... | |
| JOHN S. MCGROARTY - 1911 - 580 strani
...searching for the most favorable place in which to commence operations. I had slung pick, shovel and bar on my shoulder and trudged merrily away to a ravine about...of a grain of barley. Eureka! Oh, how my heart beat II sat still and looked at it some minutes before I touched it, greedily drinking in the pleasure of... | |
| Rockwell D. Hunt - 1911 - 388 strani
...prospecting, he tells us, a large rock was brought to view around which a crevice extended. In his own words: "It appeared to be filled with a hard, bluish clay...bright, yellow gold in little pieces about the size of a grain of barley. Eureka! oh, how my heart beat! I sat still and looked at it some minutes before... | |
| Waldemar Kaempffert - 1924 - 484 strani
...in the sieve are picked over by hand, in case a nugget be present, before being thrown aside. peared to be filled with a hard, bluish clay and gravel,...there at the bottom, strewn along the whole length of this rock, was bright, yellow gold in little pieces about the size and shape of a grain of barley.... | |
| Vardis Fisher, Opal Laurel Holmes, Opal Laurel Fisher - 1968 - 492 strani
...how, having dug down to bedrock, he scraped with a knife over the stone until he found a crevice that "appeared to be filled with a hard bluish clay and...pieces about the size and shape of a grain of barley. Eurekal Oh, how my heart beat! I sat still and looked at it some minutes before I touched it, greedily... | |
| William S. Pierson - 1999 - 208 strani
...forget the delight with which I struck and worked out a crevice. It appeared to be filled with hard gravel, which I took out with my knife, and there at the bottom, strewn along the whole length of rock, was bright yellow gold." But his delight in the humors of the time quickly changed to sorrow.... | |
| Holly L. Skinner - 2001 - 308 strani
...hillsides. In the bedrock of one such ravine, Buffum found a long crevice. "It appeared to be f1lled with a hard, bluish clay and gravel, which I took...pieces about the size and shape of a grain of barley. ... I sat still and looked at it some minutes before I touched it, greedily drinking in the pleasure... | |
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