I don't want to show up as conceited, yet now, as I'm covering this bit of paper, I've begun to think to myself: Shan't I, perhaps, while I'm doing my article, be helping to clear away a little of the water and the mud that cover the lode?
"The Way of Ambition"
Robert Hichens
And I want to tell you, sir, too, that I won't be pointed out as having anything to do with such a swindling concern as the Mukton lode Company.
"Peter A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero"
F. Hopkinson Smith
Sinking a shaft into the top dirt of a hillside in search of a new lode, or into the lode when discovered to see if gold could be found there was prospecting.
"A Gold Hunter's Experience"
Chalkley J. Hambleton