48 collocations for shoveled

While Mooka scurried about, collecting birch bark and armfuls of dry branches, Noel took off his snow-shoes and began with one of them to shovel away the snow in a semicircle around the base of the stub.

He also illustrated two or three incorrect ways of shoveling coal.

Then, fastening down the lid, he covered the coffin over with boards and began slowly and mournfully shovelling the earth upon it.

For instance, instead of shovelling 16 tons a day, a man can shovel 59 tons; a man loading pig-iron increased his total load per day from 12-1/2 to 47-1/2 tons; the day's tale of bricks laid has been raised from 1000 to 2700.

The command took up its march next day for the Cimarron, and had a hard tramp of it on account of the snow having drifted to a great depth in many of the ravines, and in some places the teamsters had to shovel their way through.

As I drew near, its venerable owner was at work in front of it, shoveling a path through the sand,just as, at that moment (February 24), thousands of Yankee householders were shoveling paths through the snow, which then was reported by the newspapers to be seventeen inches deep in the streets of Boston.

The clerks seemed trying to brazen out their own terror, and shovelled the rapidly lessening gold and notes across the counter with an air of indignant nonchalance.

Hopin that when you shovel off your mortil coil, that your mantle may not pass out of the family, and as time flies on with greased wings, you may make the family name sound by bein able to Mark Twain in your family record, I drop the goose feather.

One nurse in the Charlotte Ward (Sir Andrew Clark's) said he used literally to shovel out half-crowns at Christmas when he asked what the patients were going to do.

If by some accident the front end of your engine should drop down allowing the water to expose the crown sheet, what would you do? A. If I had a heavy and hot fire, would shovel dirt into the fire and smother it out.

It is contrary to good breeding to shovel one's food into the mouth with a knife.

Other men in line, four or five feet below the level of the boxes, were "stripping," picking, and shovelling the gravel off the bed-rockno easy business, for even this summer temperature thawed but a few inches a day, and below, the frost of ten thousand years cemented the rubble into iron.

He shoveled a heaping spoonful of stew into his mouth.

And dipping his hands into the box he began deliberately shovelling the whole hoard into his trousers and waistcoat pocket.

We shoveled out a deep hole in the gravel, so that it would fill up with water.

He walked home, shoveled out his Jeep, started it, and scraped the windows, thinking that he'd see what George was up to.

We shall be learning something at the time even though we only shovel up so much mud.'

"Don't you wish we could have a huge dust hole to empty all the nasty people and things in that we don't like?" "YesI'd shovel the nines in fast enough, and a few eights to keep them company, and then I would throw in all my medicine bottles, and my great coat, andand Mrs. Selby on the top of them!"

The large oysters they threw into the cockpit, and shoveled the rubbish overboard.

Store.........................Laf ka. Shovel, to shovel.............La patka.

In this past year of our Lord eighteen hundred sixty-one, we have no doubt, and we shudder to think of it, that by far the larger proportion of our fellow-citizens shovelled their green-peas into their mouths with uncanonical knife-blades, just as Sir Philip Sidney did in a darker age, when yet the "Times" and the silver fork were not.

Each one had some sort of a canteen for water, which we must fill up at every opportunity, and we decided to carry a shovel along, so we might bury the body of Capt. Culverwell, and shovel up a pile of sand at the falls to enable us to get the oxen over.

I helped him shovel out Mrs. Cowell's parking place.

Into this tube you shovel a quantity of coal, which flames vigorously as long as the door is open, but when it is full you shut the door, thus cutting off the supply of air and extinguishing the flame.

hire'n the Himmely mountins, while the old Whig party shoveled off its mortil quarrel.

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