895 examples of spades in sentences

Patricia peeped to see what cards lay beneath that monarch, and upon reflection moved the King of Spades into the vacant space.

Though I seen 'em both shoot; the fair one hunts well, as you know, but the old one's a wonder at an ace of spades.

But that he will never know: For his mouth the red earth smothers As they shoulder their spades and go.

When I reached the place peasants with long mattocks and spades were turning in the soil.

The German infantry had taken a position in a sunken road, on either side of which were stretched in extended lines hummocks, some of them natural and some the work of spades in the hands of German soldiers.

For with them she was pleased enough, but only delighting to bite at them, and flip them about with her paws, and never considering for a moment whether they were diamonds or clubs, or hearts, or spades or whether the card was an ace or not.

Rakes, spades, and hatchets were ranged along the walls in the most perfect order; and near those instruments of agriculture were placed the productions which were the fruits of labour: sacks of rice, sheaves of corn, and baskets of the plantain fruit.

[Illustration: The Knave of Spades.]

As they marched along, with their garden shears, their long-handled pruning-knives, their rakes, their little spades and hoes, and sweeping-brooms; others following after these with baskets to carry off the stones and rubbish; and others, last of all, trailing along the heavy iron rollerit was a thoroughly pretty, delightful procession.

"The King of Spades went his rounds, accompanied by the most eminent architects and engineers of the day.

From Echo Cañon they went down the Weber, then toward East Cañon, a dozen of the bearded host going forward with spades and axes as sappers.

They go across the road and claw the fresh earth from an exposed bank, using fingers instead of their little rakes and spades, and decorate the moist brown "pies" they make with dandelion ornaments.

Simon: Spades are trumps.

Magic spades.

SEE Magoffin, Ralph V. D. MAGOFFIN, RALPH V. D. Magic spades; the romance of archaeology, by Ralph V. D. Magoffin and Emily C. Davis.

Magic spades.

SEE Magoffin, Ralph V. D. MAGOFFIN, RALPH V. D. Magic spades; the romance of archaeology, by Ralph V. D. Magoffin and Emily C. Davis.

Rutledge trails the ace of spades.

Rutledge trails the ace of spades.

Their spades turned over the whole of the soil, and planting commenced.

All the girls were given tiny toy rakes, hoes, spades, or other farm implements which they used as favors in choosing partners.

Larkin cut a five spot of clubs and was in the act of tearing it in two, when Tex turned the tray of spades.

Their taro and their kumara fields had to be dug, and dug thoroughly with wooden spades.

72 spades. 100 steel axes. 20 axes.

To have called a spade a spade would have ruined the whole effect; spades must never be mentioned, or, at the worst, they must be dimly referred to as agricultural implements, so that the entire attention may be fixed upon the central and dominating features of the compositionthe spiritual states of the characterswhich, laid bare with uncompromising force and supreme precision, may thus indelibly imprint themselves upon the mind.

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