Fire-setting was used extensively during opencast mining, and is also described by Pliny in connection with the use of another mining technique known as hushing.
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Further down the hillside hushing has been used to reveal the position of the vein, by releasing a dammed up stream to wash away the boulder clay.
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She spent her nights awake, hushing the baby so he would not disturb her husband or the three other restaurant workers who shared their three-room apartment.
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Leats were also used extensively by the aqueducts to prospect for ores by sluicing away the overburden of soil to reveal the bedrock in a method known as hushing.
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MTA stated that this act was a compromise in exchange for hushing all other complaints against MTA in reference to this and other recent and planned changes in route.
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"Wait, wait wait, " he said, hushing the thousands of Clinton supporters in the sports arena who were shouting their indignation at the interruption.
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At the same time, the tradition of hushing up the transgressions of those with status or power _ whether a priest or a president _ was being chipped away.
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The word " mushroom " preserves a hush Basque "'s "', which is halfway between a hissing sibilant and a hushing sibilant.
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Russian soldiers said Saturday that the military is understating casualties in Chechnya, hushing up the deaths of scores of men to avoid a public backlash against the increasingly bloody war.
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His discussions of some technical advances are the only sources for those inventions, such as hushing in mining technology or the use of water mills for crushing or grinding corn.
