Sluice Box

Men cast hungry eyes upon the ownerless claim, where they knew a thousand-thousand dollars waited but shovel and sluice-box. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He sat down at the head of the sluice-box and gave directions how they should turn off the most of the water, wash down the "toilings" very low, lift up the "riffle," brush down the "apron," and finally set the pan in the lower end of the "sluice-toil" and pour in the quicksilver to gather up and hold the gold. ❋ Various (N/A)

Here he set a sluice-box and put his three little miners at work with pick, pan and shovel. ❋ Various (N/A)

Stumps, who had left off his work, which consisted mainly of pulling flowers and putting them in the sluice-box to see them float away. ❋ Various (N/A)

He meant to have his first smoke at the sluice-box, as a miner should. ❋ Various (N/A)

And how pleasant it was here under the broad boughs of the oak, with the water rippling through the sluice on the soft, loose soil which they shoveled into the long sluice-box. ❋ Various (N/A)

Again his hand was reached down to the rippling water at the head of the sluice-box. ❋ Various (N/A)

Beaver Creek diggings and had had his reward when he had seen the sluice-box run yellow with gold and had taken his green rice bowl heaping full upon the days of division. ❋ Caroline Lockhart (1916)

He dashed back inside as soon as he saw Bruce jump out of the sluice-box. ❋ Caroline Lockhart (1916)

The hotel porter shovelled imported sand into a sluice-box through which ❋ Caroline Lockhart (1916)

"You're harder to kill nor a cat," Smaltz grinned without malice, but he threw him violently against the sluice-box. ❋ Caroline Lockhart (1916)

While Bruce, by running back and forth between the donkey-engine and the top sluice-box where the scraper dumped, managed to do the work of two men ten hours a day. ❋ Caroline Lockhart (1916)

Then he let go and turned over and over tumbling grotesquely in the wide sluice-box while the rocks pounded and ground him, beat him into insensibility. ❋ Caroline Lockhart (1916)

"As undoubtedly you know," continued Mr. Sprudell, tapping his glasses judicially upon the edge of the sluice-box, "the richest gold in all alluvial deposits --" ❋ Caroline Lockhart (1916)

That girl over there, [Amber], is a [huge] [sluice box]. ❋ Definer Of Languages (2023)