The champagne was all gone, but he still had some gold nuggets.
The nuggets flattened to a yellow leaf as fine and flexible as silk.
He gathered his last nuggets and hurled them in handfuls at the mirror, shattering it in countless pieces.
And then we had him carted to a distant small hotel and put to bed with his nuggets and baby seal-skins stuffed around him.
Her mind is such a rich pocket that as she digs in it (her head to the side and her tongue well out) she sends up showers of nuggets.
They unstrapped those little leather bags round under their cartridge belts and produced in tiny gold nuggets the price of what they had bought.
When men drifted in to trade dust and nuggets for picks and flour, the fur-traders smiled, and rightly surmised that the California diggings were playing out.
Far-off gold glittered the brighter for the distance. Cariboo became in popular imagination a land where nuggets grew on the side of the road and could be picked by the bushel-basket.