There on the headgate sat Diedrick's frau with a long-handled shovel across her lap and all the water turned into Diedrick's ditch; there she sat knitting through the long sun, and the children brought out her dinner.
She was a very large lady, and a long-handled shovel is no mean weapon.
We should use a shovel in exactly the same way to throw out the rubbish when digging.
His shovel was small, and it took a long while to make a place large enough to creep into.
It was open, showing Ned had been there, and his little shovel was missing.
With the same little shovel the father now worked with all his might, cheering his child by the continued sound of his voice, saying, "Papa will take you out in a minute.
When school was out he ran home, put his spelling-book on the shelf in his little room, took out his shovel from the box where he kept his playthings, and went into the yard.
The bandages saved his hands from much of the torture of the shovel handle, but there was deep night in his heart.
Now and again when one of them collapsed, Harrigan snatched the fire bar or the shovel from the hands of the worker and labored furiously until another substitute was found.
He had to throw it away and take the shovel handle against his bare skin.
Dry them and then place each in an iron spoon or on a small coal shovel and heat in stove to redness.
Higbie descended into it and worked bravely with his pick till he had loosened up a deal of rock and dirt and then I went down with a long-handled shovel (the most awkward invention yet contrived by man) to throw it out.
You must brace the shovel forward with the side of your knee till it is full, and then, with a skilful toss, throw it backward over your left shoulder.
Imagine a stranger staking out a mining claim among the costly shrubbery in your front yard and calmly proceeding to lay waste the ground with pick and shovel and blasting powder!
I spent about half the time with a shovel in my hands myself.
Why in Heaven's name can't they shovel dirt on the same diet?
I think she would have liked to take a shovel herself.
But when I put away my shovel at five o'clock on Saturday that was the end of my ditch digging.
The foreman demanded my name, registered me, told me where to find a shovel and assigned me to a gang under another foreman.
If he does, every man who faithfully and honestly handles his shovel will be part of the big firm.
Hang up the shovel and the hoe Take down the fiddle and the bow-- Old master has gone to the slaveholder's rest; He has gone where they all ought to go.
Hang up the shoveland the hoe, Take down the fiddle and the bow, We'll dance and sing, And make the forest ring, With the fiddle and the old banjo.
When the pits get cool enough the pitmen get in and shovel the stuff out.
In the meantime Steve threw his shovel into the pit, and crawling into the pit, used the shovel for a support while he pulled his companion out.
Steve surveyed the irate boss for a few seconds, then picking up his shovel walked slowly toward the pit in which he had had such a narrow escape from death.
Get them together; shovel the cinders out; then if you don't get enough work shovel them back again.
Just back of Steve, so close that he could hurl a shovel of cinders against it, was a huge open-hearth furnace with a roaring temperature of three thousand degrees Fahrenheit inside of it.
Rush hopped down to the plank, leaving his shovel on the ground.
His shovel threw out a quantity of the hot cinders.
They had their heads bate in be polismen because no philan-thropist'd come along an' make thim shovel coal.
He threw up a little dirt, then gave the shovelto one of the soldiers.
Before pick and shovelhad made more than a dent on the crust of Black Mountain, two newspapers, a bank, express lines, and a magazine were in operation.
Just sink a shovel into the ground and up comes two dollars' worth of medicine recommended by every doctor in the country.
Smith had little success as a prospector, but saw in man's lust for gold, ways to get it easier than the pick and shovel method.
If we sell a shoddy shirt, an inferior pick or shovelto one of our customers," they told the wholesaler, "we will never again sell anything to him nor to any of his friends.
So they went to his wagon, loosened the shovel lashed to the coupling pole.
Charlie returned to the store, got a pick and shovel from a rack, handed one to Ben Brandt and one to Cranky Casey.
A few holes which could be filled with a shovel within a few moments.
I'll go for a shovel while you choose a place to plant him.
Phil left that bench running, got a pick and shovel and went singing up the road and to this day he doesn't know that Charlie just created that job so he could eat.
A famous gold mine in Queensland, Australia--the Mount Morgan--is also being worked by steam shovel methods.
The greatest development of this sort of mining has come about since the application of the modern steam shovel to the excavation of ore.
It's elegant coal-- Shovel up every lump, if you vally your soul!
Illustration: Colleen with shovel and Priest] D'ye see them black diamonds?
One of Mr. Pantin's diversions was sitting before the glowing coals, whisk and shovel in hand, waiting for an ash to drop.
Shovel before whom the smaller pretenders in these Liberties give place and hide diminished heads.
Way there for her ladyship and Doctor Gregory Shovel from the Rules of the Fleet!
This Doctor Shovel could not have known of your coming.
Shovel would not find herself flouted, out of the singular hatred which the clergy bear to me.
The Reverend Gregory Shovel cannot murder the boy; that would be the common, vulgar thought of a Fleet Market butcher or a hodman.
The Reverend Doctor Shovel was doing a great and splendid business.
Doctor, "the name of Gregory Shovelis already well known.
Why, who would believe that the great Doctor Shovel could be respectable?
Sarvent, my lad, and wish you well out of it; 'specks to your mother, and say we can deal for the pan and shovel all the same for your misfortin.
The separating motions are again gone through; and the "head" of the best of the black tin is thrown well up on one side of the shovel in the form of a crescent, so as to leave room on the shovel to work with the "tailings.
It is swept from the shovel into a scoop, and transferred to a hot crucible; in which it is calcined until free from sulphur.
The lighter stuff is washed off, and the residue dried by holding the shovel over the furnace.
Vanners are, as a rule, skilful men, and show remarkable dexterity in separating the black tin, with the help of their apparatus, which consists simply of a shovel and a kieve of water.
Mike is not overawed by convention, and instead of following the steps of other men who shovel the snow entirely off, he shovels off a footpath to enable me to go to business, and then sits down and oversees the sun while it melts the balance.
His clothing was thin and ragged and his bare hands rested upon the handle of a shovel which he held.
Early and late he was on the highway with his shovel or rake making the road easy for the feet of his boy!
A long handled shovel called a "peel" or a "slice" was used to put the things in to bake.
Beside the fire-place stood shovel and tongs, and usually there hung there a bellows for blowing up the fire when low, and a turkey's wing to brush up the hearth.
Doing so, he nearly took a header through the gangway, but he hung to the shovel and braced himself better.
When Durden took the shovel Hailey put his hand on the shoulder of Callahan, who was trying to hang to big Ed Peeto on the fireman's seat.
Aloysius, through the backs of his eyes, saw him grab the shovel and make a pass at the tender.
The corn was shelled by hand or by raking the ear across the edge of a shovel or other piece of sharp iron and then ground in stone mortars with pestles or in wooden mortars.
In case there was no fire or light in the house, some one would go to the home of a neighbor with a shovel or covered pan, and sometimes with only a piece of green bark, and get coals to bring back for relighting the fire.
When in the summer Bill had returned from his fruitless search for gold, he had left his pick and shovel in the Hughes woodshed.
The shovel hats, the long chins and retreating mouths of these aged men at Greenwich, are wonderfully hit off by Cruikshank, with a mere flourish of the pen.
