grubstake

He told me he's going north and needs a grubstake.

Told him to consider it in the light of a grubstake.

Cash had learned, he said, to hope high but keep an eye on the grubstake.

The two stayed at the post, he knew now, for no other reason than that they were without a grubstake.

Those early profits became the grubstake he eventually used to start his own partnership together with some friends.

Once he had been a grubstake, now he was a burden.

I would say they have found the people in the area a soft touch, contributing to their grubstake without asking any questions.

Grubstake was a big opportunity to get rich or get killed, and not much more.

After a while the look of the land itself changes as the size of the necessary grubstake increases.

And the Bush family helped young George along with a $300,000 grubstake.

It seemed a generous grubstake, but it didn't work out that way.

So with a grubstake of $40,000 in personal savings, the pair started Burl.

He did not complain, even to himself, as he sacrificed both food and comfort to increase his grubstake.

Of course, we call it a grubstake.

Barney's grubstake was his wife Bertha's engagement ring, which he pawned.

They would go on prospecting, using the check for a grubstake, That much they had decided without argument.

"It's gold I'm after, but I need a grubstake, too."

It's been out on one grubstake job to a couple of thorium prospectors and I had to reclaim it.

It would mean money, though, a grubstake of five thousand dollars each, to carry them through two years of toil.

"Whenever I need to raise a grubstake, I go back to the hospital and let them try to figure out what happened."

"Anyway, from what Don told me, you want a short-term job so you can get a grubstake together in order to go back.

Now a man who puts his life and time against a grubstake ordinarily finds it hard enough to turn over half of what he finds.

The nucleus of the first area is the north-facing terrain cascading from the nearly 7,000-foot-high Grubstake summit.

Richard and Joe traded with the natives much of their grubstake for hoochinoo.

Gird offered his expertise, connections, and a grubstake.