I longed to scramble down and rush after the intruders, only the belief that one of them carried a spade and the other an iron bar struck me as curious, while at the same moment my eye caught sight of a portion of the ground below us at the base of the rock which had evidently been recently disturbed.

One rises, and ties the mouth of the sack with string he had brought with him for the purpose, and setting down the sack, bulky now and heavy, by Conspirator No. Two, takes up the spade and begins to dig.

"Ah, my friend, your old pernicious habit of calling a spade a spade!

He brought a spade and hoe from a little hut near the stream, and we dug a broad and shallow trench and laid the bodies in it.

He thought of seizing a spade and suddenly smiting one or two of them to earth, and so in fair combat showing the advantage of eyes.

This said, I turned sadly away to find a burial spade, and it then occurred to me that this little incident was kindly meant to confirm my view that cats are susceptible, even to a fatal extent, of spiritual impressionsespecially when conveyed by spirits of "Old Rye.

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

It lives in sand, and can bury itself so quickly that you would have to use your spade with all your might in order to keep pace with this little shell-fish.

I throw down my spade in the wet trampled grass at the edge of the ditch.

Then, having relit the lantern, he set the spade into the ground, and speedily removed the soil from the white face below.

As he takes a spade used in hostile earthworks, so he goes a little farther off and takes the black muscle that wields the spade.

At the very first note, of that whistle I drop my spade.

" Among other incidents we hear of his passing a group, who were "shrieking and howling as in Ireland" over some men buried in the fall of a bank; he snatched a spade, began to dig, and threatened to horsewhip the peasants unless they followed his example.

guerra!" ringing too loud, methought, to be good metal; the "Suoni la tromba" at that night's theatre,the digging at the fortifications,women carrying huge stones,men more willing to shout for them than to do their own share,Capuchin friars digging with the best,finally, the wild dance of men, women, cowled and bearded monks, all together, brandishing their spades and shovels in cadence to the military band.

The astonished negro opened his eyes and mouth to the fullest extent, let fall the spades, and fell upon his knees.

But his real favorite was an oak tree, nearly twenty years of age and already sturdy, which stood in the centre of the lawn, where he had planted it with Marianne, who had held the slender sapling in position while he plied his spade on the day when they had founded their domain of Chantebled.

But whenever Dharmu raised his spade a voice called out "Hold, hold!"

I sprang back and caught up the spade.

But the common Virginian would admit no peril, though now and then some rough landward fellow would lay down his spade, spit moodily, and tell me a grim tale.

He now left his spade and stepped apart, essaying now a little broken English.

He also stood still, gripping his spade very tightly in both hands.

November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh; The shortening winter-day is near a close; The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh; The blackening trains o' craws to their repose: The toil-worn cotter frae his labour goes This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend.

And this wind so possessed me, that I at once went out: with the crow-bar from the car I broke the window of a near iron-monger's in Parliament Street, got a spade, and went into Westminster Abbey.

at a signal, leap forward with a shout and plunge their spades into the turf.

Still nothing had been found, and Lilly was just about to relinquish his spade to the mason, when, plunging it more deeply into the ground, it struck against some hard substance.