| 单词 | grub up |
| 例句 | Now and then they found a stump with the marks of the axe on it, but mostly these had been carefully covered with brambles or altogether grubbed up. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z There are a lot of fingerprints on “Road Show,” even beyond the ones that grub up everyday musicals. Review: Sondheim’s Bumpy ‘Road Show,’ Now at the End of the Line 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z “The natural underwood has been grubbed up,” Olmsted wrote at the time, “the trees, to a height of 10 to 15 feet, trimmed to bare poles.” Central Park, Bucolic but Aging, Is in a Quest for $300 Million 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Throughout Europe, in California and Chile, Australia and South Africa, old vineyards have been grubbed up and replaced, either with newer vineyards that were more productive or with grapes deemed more in demand. New Wines From Old Spanish Vines 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z To grub up coppice woodland and replace it with a plantation of spruce larches is to destroy it as effectively as covering it with concrete. Monty Don: 'Why we must save our woodlands' 2011-01-30T00:06:27Z He knows the backbreaking work of grubbing up onions or cutting grapes. ‘Cesar Chavez’: a noble portrait of the civil-rights leader 2014-03-26T18:56:20Z He prefers instead to do what Wilde used to call “grubbing up a lot of musty facts.” Why David Hare Loves Oscar Wilde 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Its snout was also turned down, so Boessenecker says it likely spent a fair amount of time grubbing up prey off of the sea floor. New Species of Prehistoric Dolphin Slurped Up Its Prey 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z Analysts expect a harvest of 11m-12m tonnes, one of the smallest in a generation, after many farmers grubbed up their failing, waterlogged crops and replanted fields with barley. Farmers fail to feed nation after extreme weather hits wheat crop 2013-06-12T19:44:56Z Some 42% of that went on restructuring and converting vineyards, including "grubbing up" - that is, paying growers to cut the size of their vineyards because of an oversupply of wine in the market. France criticises Chinese wine probe 2013-06-06T09:15:49Z But if I did, I have no doubt she would take up a hoe or a watering-pot, and proceed to do some very unghostlike deed—perhaps, grub up weeds. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z In winter, nearly all went out to work in the fields, grubbing up brushwood and burning it, and so preparing the ground for cultivation. Mellifont Abbey, Co. Louth Its Ruins and Associations, a Guide and Popular History 2012-02-29T03:00:24.937Z Well, I tried to, but after grubbing up the last embryo leaf at the ground, thirty-nine was my limit—all from one plant. Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things 2012-02-24T03:00:23.760Z The small bushes are grubbed up for fuel. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z He turned from grubbing up an ant stump and headed straight back for home. Hoof and Claw 2012-01-28T03:00:27.507Z Fuel-gatherers constantly climb about them grubbing up shrubs and pulling up the grass. Our National Defense: The Patriotism of Peace 2011-12-14T03:00:16.577Z Go down an' help him tote th' grub up. Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z He must continually grub up the stumps planted by all manner of unrevised influence. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z Steel had grubbed up a post, and when the wires slacked part of the rest got tangled up and went down, choking the gap. The Mistress of Bonaventure 2011-11-28T03:00:22.190Z This winter found him at work grubbing up old hedges, and helping to lay out anew some land on a farm of Lord Duckford's beyond Radbury. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z A month passed, which the boys spent quietly in grubbing up stumps and chopping. The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound 2011-11-24T03:00:42.877Z He used these tusks, it is supposed, not only for self-defense, but for grubbing up roots which he ate. The Adventures of a Grain of Dust 2011-11-22T03:00:12.257Z Next moment he was down on his knees, grubbing up the loose earth directly below it, with the eager, absolute certainty of success. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z Insects abound; the Doctor is perpetually in chase, unless busily occupied in grubbing up plants. In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions 2011-10-10T02:00:18.377Z He grubbed up the earth in forty places with a small mattock he had made on purpose at the village blacksmith’s. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z Afterward by degrees you grub up the stumps and get the clean, tilled land. The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound 2011-11-24T03:00:42.877Z Cyclists helped save many roads from being grubbed up. 19th century cyclists paved the way for modern motorists' roads 2011-08-15T06:00:01Z They seem to appear in numbers upon those oak bushes rather than trees which spring up when an oak has been cut down but the stump has not been grubbed up. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z He and they were "great chiefs," but used stone-pointed digging sticks to grub up edible roots! Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z With dangling bellies they grubbed up the ground with their snouts, while great blocks of woolly sheep filled the air with a confused chorus of bass and treble. Royal Highness 2011-05-05T02:00:22.363Z The "stool" of the tree under which Courtenay stood had lately been grubbed up. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z The reference to the mills is as follows: Builders of iron mills, that grub up forests With timber trees for shipping. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z "If I grub up wild land, I shall hold it three years for pay." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z His remaining horses he had turned out into the hills, upon whose tops, when the snow flew, they could grub up a living without too much difficulty. The Rider of Golden Bar 2011-01-04T03:01:06.347Z They stealthily grubbed up all the secret or obscure passages in his life and his career. The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java 2010-12-24T03:00:34.823Z Yet grubbed up with a fruit salad of tasteless, competing stickers. Defacing the Laptop 2010-09-02T18:38:00Z He thought offering free drinks was not a good idea so opted to put his pub grub up for grabs. Free pub meal? He'll flip you for it 2010-03-24T12:01:00Z It's going to slice through prime countryside, it's going to sever farms, it's going to mean the grubbing up of hedges, the loss of woodland, the loss of grassland, the severance of rights of way. 'What benefit?' 2010-03-11T23:17:00Z If Gladstone fells trees, he is still Gladstone; if Ruskin grubs up a wood, he is still a great poet. Household Organization Why people should want to grub up every rare and beautiful thing they find in the country to plant in their miserable town gardens, I can't imagine. Bosom Friends A Seaside Story Fence and equipment mendings, cutting ice from ponds and rivers, chopping wood, and grubbing up trees all had a part in his busy life. Frying Pan Farm They must grub up roots, or gather grass seeds, or catch wild animals—if they can. Political economy He allows no strange dogs to prowl about the place, and grub up his buried bones. Was It Right to Forgive? A Domestic Romance "This is life! they grub up no ancient relics, they live with no antiquities." Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine All the trees were grubbed up, the forests disappeared from the hills, the prairies were cleared by means of fire, and the new cultivators set busily to work in exhausting the fecundity of the soil. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] Stargazer shuffled by farm and farm, and turned aside at last to where, with ax and pick and team and tackle, a big man was grubbing up mesquite roots. Stepsons of Light Ah, yes, I see; but all that sort of learning—that irregular study—is a thing to be grubbed up. That Boy Of Norcott's He made it out that we had so many thousand fine plants that I wanted grubbed up. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 One day Michael suddenly found that he had grubbed up and cut down all the timber. Timar's Two Worlds He'd grubbed up the dollar polishing cars, and met Paul's dollar halfway, never dreaming the thing would pay off. Martyr Aren’t there enough live people to take an interest in, without grubbing up dead ones from tombstones and town clerks’ records? Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 Bushes, which so often occupy pastures, should be grubbed up, and by all means destroyed; so should all thistles, briers, and large weeds. Soil Culture The Hog grubbed up all he could find to eat, and then went and sat in the inner room. The Talking Thrush and Other Tales from India He told me you’d sure got grub up here, an’ I didn’t need to get things. The Twins of Suffering Creek On approaching the mountains there were indications giving promise of sport in patches of soil grubbed up by the wild hogs in search for the root of the Asphodel, which they greedily devour. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Nor is it worth his while to grub up the old roots; for you cannot plant a new orchard where an old one has decayed. Merry-Garden and Other Stories Then he grubbed up the green cushion and transferred it bodily to his house. Nine Little Goslings What they call vineyards are old black stumps that ought to be grubbed up for firewood!’ Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster She is a sparrow herself; she grubs up sustenance, rubs along without getting any forwarder, where others would go under altogether. A Poor Man's House A valley which they passed was grubbed up in all directions with furrows made by these animals, so that the soil had all the appearance of having been ploughed up. Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. It is his part to clear and burn the forest, it is hers to grub up the rich mold, to plant and to weed. Edge of the Jungle When the late berries and fruits were all gone there were sweet tubers and starchy roots to be grubbed up along the meadow levels by the water. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life He gathered here and there an herb, or grubbed up a root, and put it into the basket on his arm. The Scarlet Letter By-and-by it would be blown over, and then the farmer would have the butt grubbed up, and split for firewood, and he should escape. Wood Magic A Fable A gang of three men proceeded systematically to grub up the plants and collect the multitudes of water-snails that they might be examined by the expert to see if any obnoxious species were present. The Eye of Osiris We will grub up a few roots; perhaps Mrs. Charlton would like them for her wild garden shrubbery. Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children In all of them the stumps had been grubbed up, or rotted out, or blown up. Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading Here they grub up larches and spruces to plant cedars. Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Its citizens seemed to partake of the nature of the cactus that, grubbed up and left for dead, always manages somehow to get its roots down again. The Fighting Shepherdess We’ve hung our grub up so nothing can get hold of it. The Boy Scouts of Lenox "I am not grubbing up anything," said Jacko, "but here are a lot of black creatures, lively enough when you stir them up; I suppose they must be tadpoles." Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children That the young gent was out here, sir, digging up them tater things as he was in the habit of grubbing up—weeds and things. The Weathercock Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias We pressed down at the lever, and Bigley heaved and grunted like an old pig grubbing up roots, but the grey mass of stone did not even move. Devon Boys A Tale of the North Shore May tip that waiter possibly, if he brings the grub up sharp. Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life The backbone is composed of a betel-nut palm, which has been grubbed up with its roots. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia It was evident that grubbing up weeds was no greater novelty to him than to us. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 The briars and thorns are in a great measure grubbed up; the flowers and fruits may soon be planted. Dialogues of the Dead He hath many branches and great roots which must be grubbed up, before everyone can sing Zion’s song in peace.” The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth As Revealed in the Writings of Gerrard Winstanley, the Digger, Mystic and Rationalist, Communist and Social Reformer The horses are just kept alive by grass which Hindoos grub up by the roots. Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege I expect to have to live on just whatever I can shoot or grub up. The Upas Tree A Christmas Story for all the Year Hearne remarks that the explication of this word warranted by Sir E. Coke is "a wood grubbed up and turned to arable." Notes and Queries, Number 61, December 28, 1850 Uncle Moses brought us food--birds the negroes had snared and roasted, and root plants they had grubbed up; and as we ate we talked. Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow I fear all our bushes are so large that there is nothing which we are at all likely to grub up. Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 If that root were grubbed up, all would fall. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII Some of the pasture she grubbed up for spring sowings, the rest she drained by cutting a new channel from the Kent Ditch to the White Kemp Sewer. Joanna Godden Got so't I wouldn't pack grub up to him no more. The Lookout Man In preparing the ground for the nurseries, break it up properly, grub up all the small stumps, dig out the roots, and carefully remove them with the hand. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. We run out of grub up there, and finally I gave out. The Silent Places But sowing is not all; thorns must be grubbed up. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII The field is still known as Chapel Hill; but not a vestige of the building survives; no doubt the foundations were grubbed up for ploughing purposes. Vanishing England What with levelling Montcalm's siege works, planting palisades, and grubbing up stumps in their bungling and laborious way, the regulars found abundant occupation. Montcalm and Wolfe Mode of Cultivation in Brazil.—The lands in Brazil are never grubbed up, either for planting the sugar cane, or for any other agricultural purposes. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. There was no one to grub up pig-nuts for her, nor to extract insects of an edible sort from beneath the bark of trees. In the Wrong Paradise The artist divines by inspiration all the truths that the so-called scientist grubs up in his laboratory slowly and stupidly long afterwards. Back to Methuselah When they are to sow wheat, barley, pulse, or other grain, they grub up the surface of the ground superficially, earth, grass, and rook, and mixing this with some straw, burn all together. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time They had forests to cut down, underwood to grub up, marshes to drain, and savages to exterminate. Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete They look for it, wherever they go, digging up roots, and grubbing up grubs, and searching the hollows of the trees for opossums. Far Off You will have to assign men to cut brush, to pile it, and to grub up the roots. The Young Wireless Operator—As a Fire Patrol The Story of a Young Wireless Amateur Who Made Good as a Fire Patrol We grub up, on the gardener's hint and permission, some of the Cameris humilis, to whose filamentous radicles are attached certain little grains, of great sweetness and flavour. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 332, June, 1843 But when the farmer gave him a little hoe, and asked him to grub up a few weeds in the garden, the lad threw it down, and said to the farmer, 'I hate you.' Round the Block He grubbed up all the hedges, and threw the whole of his arable land into one vast field, and had it levelled with the theodolite. Hodge and His Masters The Damara owners confide perhaps 200 cattle to a couple of half-starved youths, who pass their time in dozing or in grubbing up roots to eat. Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development The work to which we were put on the farm was very laborious, consisting, for several weeks, in clearing the land of trees; felling, burning, and grubbing up the roots. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII In this camp the newcomer and his family would live while he grubbed up the bushes and cut down trees enough to make a log cabin. A School History of the United States Having obtained a long lease of the place, I grubbed up the hedges, turned three small fields into one, and made a cricket ground in the midst. A Cotswold Village By and by he left me with the papers and a clerk, and I proceeded to grub up the history of the Chateau. Mr. Standfast He gathered here and there a herb, or grubbed up a root and put it into the basket on his arm. The Scarlet Letter You need not set detectives to grub up my tragedy; it is a common enough weed in this world. The Innocence of Father Brown The cold was intense, and they had much ado to grub up wild onions from the frozen ground to save themselves from starving. France and England in North America; a Series of Historical Narratives — Part 3 Almost every year I hear of one being grubbed up. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories His advice was that the grove should be grubbed up; but it certainly would be much easier to remove the sun dial, obelisk, and all. Anna St. Ives The Simiacine trees had been ruthlessly cut away—even the roots were grubbed up and burnt—far away on the leeward side of the little kingdom. With Edged Tools What! garlic! do you not at every raid grub up the ground with your pikes to pull out every single head? The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 As cattle are now the farmer's main reliance, it will be long before he grubs up or destroys the welcome shelter given by the hedges from sun, rain, and storm. The Naturalist on the Thames I'm not sure that I shan't forgive you after all, if I find next spring that that maze has been grubbed up.' Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories You seem to have a perfect mania for grubbing up old books. The Heavenly Twins I stipulated to be at liberty to grub up and to cultivate all the hedge-rows, and about three hundred acres of wood and coppice land. Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2 Settlers in forest lands have found that it is endless work to grub up the trees, or even to fell them. Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts They had been grubbed up, but they had not been grubbed out. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke Herrera remarks of the Village Indians of Honduras that "they sow thrice a year, and they were wont to grub up great woods with hatchets made of flint." Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines The tap-root of all misery is sin; and, until it is grubbed up, hacking at the branches is sad waste of time. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark Then she set about grubbing up roots of hemp agrimony where they grew. Lying Prophets The second husband is a lazy, harmless old fellow, named Gallilee; possessed of one small attraction—fifty thousand pounds, grubbed up in trade. Heart and Science A Story of the Present Time We passed a family of wild pigs grubbing up the muddy beach in search of roots. Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 This man's religion has not been powerful enough to grub up the roots of the thorns. Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII Its great soft paw is a very serviceable tool and weapon, armed with claws which will take the face off a man or grub up a root with equal ease. Concerning Animals and Other Matters Some Christmas fairy must have whispered to Grand'mere to grub up the tiny tree and to include it in the stock she was taking into Versailles on the market morning. A Versailles Christmas-Tide However, I dare say you won't mind if I grub up a few potatoes to carry on with afterwards. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 22, 1917 Some of these tools were probably used as weapons, both of war and of the chase, others to grub up roots, cut down trees, and scoop out canoes. The Antiquity of Man What was the use of grubbing up stumps in a pasture lot, when one could sell minnows for a penny apiece? Samuel the Seeker This it uses to grub up roots and other things on which it lives. Expedition into Central Australia Even after such treatment a large number of sagebrush clumps, found standing over the field, must be grubbed up with the hoe. Dry-Farming : a System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall They'll all come to court with what they can grub up in the way of brickbats—facts, if they can get 'em, lies, anyway! When Egypt Went Broke He was calmly grubbing up the earth and putting it in his little red mouth when she arrived with the bananas. Seven Little Australians Bunce grubbed up roots of grass with his hard, blunt fingers. Thyrza "A man's life depends on his grub up here, and I'd be in favor of enforcing that punishment to the letter if we caught any one thieving." The Barrier Let us have no strange dogs about the place to grub up sacred bones, or we will shake out our frills and tumble them in the dust. Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn Men, women, and children betook themselves to the woods, gathering acorns and grubbing up roots. Pioneers of France in the New World Ibrahimawa, the scientific botanist, was left without a yam, after all his labour of grubbing up a basketful. The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile He was looking down, and again grubbing up grass. Thyrza I had European vegetable seeds of all kinds, and having cleared and grubbed up a portion of forest, we quickly established gardens. Ismailia Some three or four hundred diggers arrived from Creswick-creek, a gold-field famous for its pennyweight fortunes—grubbed up through hard work, and squandered in dissipation among the swarm of sly-grog sellers in the district. The Eureka Stockade When he had grubbed up a few laurels and young tree- sprouts, he was wont to retire into his favorite post of observation and meditation. The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 4 Wild pig were very plentiful, and at night they would often grub up the ground a few yards from my hut. Wanderings among South Sea Savages and in Borneo and the Philippines Now these trees were all being cut down and grubbed up. One of Ours Down came your legislation upon it; and now, if the Irish freeman dares to engage in competition with the slaves of Virginia and Havannah, you exchequer him; you ruin him; you grub up his plantation. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 We quickly pitched the tents, grubbed up the root and stem of a decayed mimosa, and lighted a fire, by the side of which our people sat in a circle. The Nile tributaries of Abyssinia, and the sword hunters of the Hamran arabs Everything, however, shall bend to the pleasure of grubbing up old bones, and captivating new animals. Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 But like the snout of the boar shall my word grub up the basis of your souls; a ploughshare will I be called by you. Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none The sun and the fresh air put life into me when I am out of doors and busy grubbing up the land. The Country Doctor After grubbing up a hollow with my knife, I swathed myself in my blanket with a saddle for pillow. Martin Hyde, the Duke's Messenger All the secrets of your heart shall be brought to light; and when ye lie in the sun, grubbed up and broken, then will also your falsehood be separated from your truth. Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none |
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