Each spadeful was safety for another inch of his body. From Wordnik.com. ["Contemptible", by "Casualty"] Reference
"Just look at this place," he said, lifting out another spadeful. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
He flung a spadeful of snow over this shoulder, then stooped to get another one. From Wordnik.com. [Rulers of the Darkness]
I threw a spadeful of earth at him in reply and very nearly ended things there and then. From Wordnik.com. [Flying Finish]
Even with a small, short-handled shovel, each spadeful of snow takes planning and effort. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
The biggest country of all-Russia-doesn't own a spadeful of dirt south of twenty-nine north. From Wordnik.com. [The Past Through Tomorrow]
He thanked the schoolmaster, and from the road heard the first spadeful falling on to the coffin. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret Stonewalled]
Overhearing this, Marie looked up from shoveling the last spadeful of dirt over Gondolfo's grave. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
Let us take a spadeful of soft, dark earth from the garden and see if we can find of what it is made. From Wordnik.com. [Conservation Reader] Reference
Leonie sighed, and leaned a little harder on the spade, being careful where she put each spadeful of earth. From Wordnik.com. [Fiddler Fair]
He stood and looked on until the last spadeful of earth was thrown upon the coffin and the mound shaped above it. From Wordnik.com. [Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly A Story of the Wilmington Massacre.] Reference
It was clearly his idea that fortunes were to be made out of the concern before a spadeful of earth had been moved. From Wordnik.com. [The Way We Live Now] Reference
He walked almost casually, carrying the spear low, braced in both hands, as though about to lift a spadeful of dirt. From Wordnik.com. [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference
Make the first layer of grass or leaves mixed with a spadeful of topsoil, and damp it with water to make it rot faster. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
Polly had her hens and a ramshackle hen-house; but not a spadeful of earth had been turned towards the wished-for garden. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Felix] Reference
"I declare," he panted out, half-breathlessly -- "my back feels broken, and I couldn't dig another spadeful to save my life!". From Wordnik.com. [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference
I did it again and again with every spadeful, which apart from being slightly rough on my ankle produced no noticeable results. From Wordnik.com. [Flying Finish]
Try as I might, I found I could scarcely shift a single spadeful without in some way knocking or rubbing my arm against my side. From Wordnik.com. [Flying Finish]
"I niver met a knave that was," Pat observed, turning over a huge spadeful of earth, and then straightening himself to look up at her. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
All -- all covered by a spadeful of country earth. From Wordnik.com. [Wappin' Wharf A Frightful Comedy of Pirates] Reference
Another spadeful out and they could be plainly seen. From Wordnik.com. [The Southerner A Romance of the Real Lincoln] Reference
Take a spadeful of the mud, and put it into a frame on the wall. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes] Reference
Then came a heavy spadeful of earth again from the narrow house. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference
When a spadeful of the clay was turned up it glittered all over. From Wordnik.com. [It Is Never Too Late to Mend] Reference
Colonel Goethale contemplating the last spadeful of dirt from the. From Wordnik.com. [The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories] Reference
It is contempt that casts the first spadeful in the grave of love. From Wordnik.com. [Half a Rogue] Reference
Dannie turned another spadeful of earth and studied the premises, while. From Wordnik.com. [At the Foot of the Rainbow] Reference
Adams dug the first spadeful of earth to signalize the beginning of the undertaking. From Wordnik.com. [Outline of the development of the internal commerce of the United States 1789-1900] Reference
But to deny what we cannot prove, not even casts into our ice-house a spadeful of snow. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Wingfold, Curate] Reference
If my child is ill I dig up a spadeful of fresh mould and rub it well -- best remedy out. From Wordnik.com. [The Purple Land] Reference
'What lot are you?' asked the new man, heaving out the first spadeful rapidly and dexterously. From Wordnik.com. [Between the Lines] Reference
One man washed out a spadeful of gravel for us, and we brought home a few specks of gold dust. From Wordnik.com. [Scenes in the Hawaiian Islands and California] Reference
If a spade is used in digging, the spade wastes in proportion to every spadeful of earth it is made to lift. From Wordnik.com. [The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal] Reference
Twenty years after the inception, and a change from the original site, the first spadeful of dirt was turned. From Wordnik.com. Reference
If so minded, hie you to the nearest grove and, digging down through the mid-winter's snow, bring home a spadeful of leaf-mould. From Wordnik.com. [The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year] Reference
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