He really gave that digging some stick. = he threw himself into the task of digging

How to gut a moose without slicing the organs and making a green, smelly mess out of the process, and how to cut it so that you got roasts and steaks instead of, as happened on her first two tries, a winter's supply of mooseburger.

It is distinguished from xanthocobaltic nitrate by its crystalline form, and by yielding a splendid cinnabarred precipitate with a solution of iodine in potassium iodide […]

[…] the screen was a large square of linen which any stray draught would set languorously asway,