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Men were laboring with Mattocks & Axes & Picks & rustic Grubbing Hoes — & together they digged out & built up the Breastworks & Redoubts at the Eminence of the Hill.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

Grubbing out a stump in wet weather is a singularly disagreeable task.

From The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound by Bindloss, Harold

Grubbing along, they climbed heavily through the yielding sand to the top of the nearest hummock.

From Maid of the Mist by Oxenham, John

Grubbing also, alone also; for your mother must be in Rouen.

From The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters by McKenzie, Aimée G. Leffingwel

Grubbing about among the lockers, I found a canvas table-cloth, which had once been part of a sail.

From Martin Hyde, the Duke's Messenger by Masefield, John