Men who, twenty years ago, would not cease their shoveling to save their lives, now play in the streets with children.

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

A few armfuls of spruce boughs shingled over this roof, and a few minutes' work shoveling snow thickly upon them to hold them in place and to make a warm covering; then a doorway, or rather a narrow tunnel, just beyond the stub on the straight side of the semicircle, and their commoosie was all ready.

They both realized it, and when, madly shoveling, he at last succeeded in releasing her she leaned her full weight on his own, breathing rapidly, and suffered him to support and guide her through the flame-shot darkness to the culinary regions above.

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.

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 blackened stokers looked like grim demons of the fiery pit as they labored at the coal, which they were shoveling into the mouths of the greedy furnaces.

Beats shoveling snow.

People were brushing snow from their cars and shoveling walks.

The strongest possible suspicion pointed to a man who had been employed in shoveling and carrying coals, cleaning windows, and chopping wood for several of the buildings, and who had left that very Saturday.

In a moment more I saw I was mistaken, for at the throttle was a uniformed soldier, and another comrade in his gray-green costume was shoveling coal into the furnace.

"The magic wand is a steam-paddy, working day and night leveling off the sand-hills and shoveling them into the bay.

Four lusty mourners then began shoveling in the dirt.

They were digging and shoveling away in the rain, nearly up to their knees in mud and clay!

Nothing can be worse than shoveling on a quantity of coal and shutting it up completely.

But it is not your vast circumference That stirs this passing strain; I would not sing although, to move you hence, They fetched their biggest crane; It is that men should shovel tons of that Into the maws of some capacious vat, Add sugar (half-a-pound)

Though streams the sweat in rivers downward, Our arms from shoveling grown weak, Our bodies frozen to an ice crust While we new strength in slumber seek Sweating or freezing, we will bear it!

She heard him making a great sound of rattling and bumping and shaking and pounding and shoveling.

"It was the snow, shoveling the way in," I said.

Why, I could have the old man's bunch shoveling dirt into that ditch to beat four aces, in about fifteen minutes, if" "But, as you say," Dill cut in anxiously, "we are decent and law-abiding, and such a procedure is quite out of the question.

Billy, being quite alive to the exigencies of the matter, rode and rode, and with him rode Dill and the other two men when they had the leisurewhich was not often, since the storms made much "shoveling" of hay necessary if they would keep the calves from dying by the dozen.

In the mean time, Oliver opened the great barn doors, and, taking a shovel, he began to clear away the snow from before them.

Josey got a shovel, and went out to help Oliver.

Jonas got the box sleigh ready under a shed, first shoveling in some snow under the runners, in order that the horses might draw the sled out easily, when it was loaded.

She was lightened by shoveling several tons of sand from her and by removing everything easily detachable; the men working in baths of sweat, with a kind of ardent abandon.