Placers

For, at the age of thirteen, accompanying his father, he had formed one of the small band of gold seekers who fought their way to the "placers" of Forty-mile Creek years before the great Yukon rush. ❋ Ridgwell Cullum (1905)

It was one of the "placers," such as have since proved so productive in different parts of the world. ❋ Unknown (1891)

The "placers" or Gold Mines of California, are located in the valley of the Sacramento, in the northern part of that new territory. ❋ Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont (1851)

"placers"; that is, masses of gravel and sand along the beds of mountain streams. ❋ Eva March Tappan (1892)

"placers," where whole sides of the hills had been dug out and washed away in the search for gold; the water being brought over the hill-tops by various ingenious methods. ❋ Samuel Smiles (1858)

In team scoring (based upon top 8 placers), the USA totaled 167 points, well ahead of runner-up Kenya (108) and Germany (95). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Years of freighting and mining had followed, and, with a stake gleaned from the Merced placers, he satisfied the land-hunger of his race and time by settling in Sonoma County. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I've churned around placers some, but I never got butter like what's in this pan. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But that had been in the days when the placers petered out, when there were no wagon roads nor tugs to draw in sailing vessels across the perilous bar, and when his lonely grist mill had been run under armed guards to keep the marauding Klamaths off while wheat was ground. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I was a dyer's helper in Pyonhan, a gold-miner in the placers of Kang-wun, a rope-maker and twine-twister in Chiksan. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"Advertised volume is being double, triple and quadruple counted, and is misleading to order placers; there should be ramifications for publicly claiming an execution as your own if you did not actually execute the order," the firm told regulators. ❋ Jacob Bunge (2011)

Do a full manuscript check for weak verb placers like was, is, were and are, and “ing” words, and swap them out for stronger verbs when you can. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I would also like to offer my sincere apologies to all of the winners and placers in Category I: Adult Fiction and Memoir; had I not been hoping to figure out a solution to the YA feedback conundrum, I would have started posting the winning entries back in July. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Journal compiled an "exposure index" for the 50 sites it examined, combining Mr. Soltani's findings with PrivacyChoice's analysis of cookie-placers, to determine how much each site exposes visitors to intrusive monitoring. ❋ Unknown (2010)

After years of freighting and mining and with a stake in the Merced placers he settled in Sonoma County, then ten years past he got the fever to hunt gold in Patagonia, and lifted his hoarse, cracked voice in song: ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Journal compiled an "exposure index" for the 50 sites it examined, combining Mr. Campbell's findings with PrivacyChoice's analysis of cookie-placers, to determine how much each site exposes visitors to intrusive monitoring. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And last but not least, all podium placers in each race category will be awarded a collectible "Mini" Phinney World Champion bobblehead in addition to the original prize list: ❋ Marty (2009)

Flawed as they were, one can tell by the documents that the out placers meant well. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I tuned in just in time for the camera people to point out to Zilly that one of the cupcake placers that, well... um, crack kills her butt! dead center on camera. ❋ Jen (2009)