On the 28th of March another excavator brought to Boucher de Perthes a second human tooth, remarking at the same time, "that something resembling a bone was just then to be seen in the sand.
In the cave closed up by this slab the excavator discovered the remains of seventeen human skeletons!
This excavator discovered similar bricks at Abu Shahrein (Eridu), a further corroboration of the traditional antiquity of Ea's once famous city.
Meanwhile the excavations at Tello (Lagash) which had been brought suddenly to an end by the death of the brilliant French excavator (M.
It's the excavator friend," he added, turning to Arlee.
There's a small excavatorin the cargo bed of the jeep.
The little excavator toiled over the loose ash for hours before it displaced enough to make the port visible, and the ash was not yet cleared away sufficiently to open the portal when darkness brought a halt to the work.
Work Done by Steam Excavatorin Six Months at Missouri Valley, Ia.
The Otis type of excavatorwas used, which cuts 24 ft.
The mere packing of the powdered earth rejected behind the excavator would not account for so large a void.
But is not the material detached simply thrust back behind the excavator as the work progresses?
The excavator disappears under the easily excavated soil of his prison after two hours' labour.
If that man had run an excavator in the mud and rain I guess he'd have made it different.
He turned away, and, strolling into his own room, he took out the card model of the excavator bucket which Weston had altered, and examined it critically.
Macalister has presented the results of his work with a completeness and a degree of intelligibility that no other excavator in Palestine has approached.
A mass of gravel and conglomerate rock was then hurled from the hill of the Acropolis of Sardis down into the city toward the temple, where the work of the excavator shows that it still lies.
The Long Range Excavator Rock-Crushing and Gold-Winning Company was born from the brain of Aurophilus Dobrown, Esq.
An excavator should be an engineer, or be accompanied by a specialist who can assign exact measurements for the position of every object discovered.
Schliemann he was not an excavator of trained experience.
Munro nowhere suggests that any excavator is the guilty "faker.
Carruthers was a fellow-excavator attached to a camp at Memphis.
He must pretend to the excavator that he was now well enough to resume his journey.
From the excavator Michael Ireton had learned that the secret police had traced the movements of the native who had given the Government the information about the chambers in the hills, and had discovered him.
It expressed to the excavator strain, rather than shyness, on the traveller's part.
The excavator without imagination never gets very far, whereas the man who is apt to let his imagination run wild gets on the wrong track and it's hard to get him off; he overlooks things that won't fit in with his theory.
Michael Ireton had listened to all that the excavator had to tell and had held his tongue on the subject of Mr. Amory's expedition; the psychical part of it would probably have called forth much derision and scoffing.
Indications such as the excavator looks for had decided him to begin work on the site.
The explanation which the excavator gives of these ashes, that the body and the offerings were burned in the closed grave, hardly deserves consideration.
As to the roof, we can only make surmises, as the excavator has furnished us with no material on this point.
A dead world has been called again to life by the spade of the excavator and the patient labour of the decipherer.
Milroy's excavator is similar, but instead of having only one spade it generally has eight, united to the periphery of an octagonal iron frame fixed to a central vertical rod.
Ive's excavator consists of a long weighted spear, with a sort of spade at the end of it.
The excavator or dredger is fixed to the end of a beam which is actuated by two hydraulic cylinders, one being used for raising the bucket and the other for lowering it; the hydraulic power is supplied by the pumps in the engine-room.
The small cavity seemed as large as a half bushel; the excavator more the size of an ax; and the sound was equally magnified.
Yet it enjoyed some form of municipal status and its streets and houses show to the excavator traces of Roman town-planning.
In these lands, and above all in Africa, the sites of many Roman towns have lain desolate and untouched since Roman days, waiting for the excavatorto recover the unspoilt pattern of their streets.
In this way the entire bed is traversed, the excavator turning over the earth in great furrows thirty feet wide, and giving an opportunity to simultaneously get out all the phosphate.
On reaching the end of the bed, the excavator is reversed and starts back, making a second cut thirty feet wide, and dumping now into the cut from which the phosphate has just been removed.
The excavator will dump 30 feet from the center line of the car, and 26 feet above the track, which is laid on the rock.
Hoffmann, a diligent excavator in the quarries of St. Peter's mountain, long celebrated for its extraordinary fossils.
In authorized excavations by a landowner or his representative the excavator receives half the value of the finds taken by the Museums.
One peculiar form of walking traction used by a drag-line excavatorwas described in Chapter XIII.
For more extensive excavating as well as for digging ditches and trenches the drag-line excavator has recently come in to use.
The search for traces of an old world takes an excavator now and again into strange corners of the new.
The length of track laid for the excavator was about 3 miles along the side of the old canal, which had been previously lowered to the level of the water.
The unearthing of a sixth tomb, where the original excavator had looked for only five, is supposed to have done violence to the Agamemnonian theory.
The land just across the little depression in which the white town lay, rose to another though less commanding height, in the slopes of which the excavator said they had but recently unearthed some ancient rock tombs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "excavator" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: dredge; miner; navvy
