Lexicographical Neighbors of Ditchdigger
Literary usage of Ditchdigger
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biographical Memoirs by National Academy of Sciences Staff, National Academy Of Sciences (1980)
"Often he worked as a ditchdigger during the day and attended classes in the evening.
Percy often related this early college experience with loving detail. ..."
2. Psychology, from the Standpoint of a Behaviorist by John Broadus Watson (1919)
"It is a type of task that the most uneducated ditchdigger can perform. Nevertheless,
it is constructive work in the sense that a passable road is built ..."
3. The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig: A Novel by David Graham Phillips (1909)
"The breakfast came and Craig ate like a ditchdigger — his own breakfast and most
of Grant's. Grant barely touched the food, lit a cigarette, sat regarding ..."
4. The Teacher's Ideals of Life and Happiness by William Henry Pyle (1920)
"... and if one can dig ditches better than he can cure the sick, then he ought to
dig ditches. And society should give the ditchdigger his proper reward. ..."
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