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He then silently applied his eye to an augur-hole above the slide, and waited.

The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making Wilfrid Ch��teauclair

And at Hartford in Connecticut there is a well which was dug seventy feet deep before water was found, then in boring an augur-hole through a rock the water rose so fast as to make it difficult to keep it dry by pumps till they could blow the hole larger by gunpowder, which was no sooner accomplished than it filled and run over, and has been a brook for near a century.

The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766

The other method of cure, which I like much better, is by boring an augur-hole in a well grown willow tree, and in it imprifoning, but not immediately killing, the worm fo clofe by a wooden peg, that no air may get in, and therein leaving him to die at leifure.

Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis 1786

Drilling an augur-hole here and there in the thin crust and pouring in a few drops of water, -- or oil, as the case may be; founding a few missions; distributing a little dole; sending a few Bibles to the heathen to offset the much bad whisky supplied them by "Christian countries"; perfecting its choir and sending its pastor to the Orient to hunt for "confirmation of Holy Scripture" amid the mummified cats of Egypt or the hoary trash of Palestine!

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1. 1898