She was on her knees with dustpan and whiskbroom, cleaning up the fragments of glass on the stained carpet.
Hodder took the dustpanfrom her hand, and flung its contents into the fireplace.
He carried the dustpan and broom away to their places, but he did not reenter the room.
She carried the dustpan away into a closet, and came back, to gather up her tins.
And I fell into the dustpan and never so much as wriggled a toe.
Soon afterward Mrs. Green set the dustpanbeside the window which she had already opened.
Dally ran more rat-like than ever to the place where the dustpan and brush lay, plumped down on her knees, and began to work with her back to the door, humming away in a low tone as busily as could be amongst the dust she raised.
There was a big puddle, of course, and I feared they would have mud to contend with, but a woman soon came with a basketful of dry sand, and by constantly brushing it up when wet into a palm-leaf dustpan quickly cleaned up all the mess.
The camel goes over the existing bank and when the dustpan reaches the summit the men in attendance upset the surface sand or soil, that has been scraped off, and carry the scraper down.
This took some time, and the results disappointed him, with the exception of a cupboard under the stairs where he discovered a housemaid's dustpan full of pieces of broken glass.
The sight of that dustpan filled me with hopes that were doomed to disappointment.
That it had been broken since the letting of the house was clear, since I found a dustpan full of broken glass, which would not have been left so by the landlord's servants, or by the charwoman who cleaned up after their departure.
Dustpan after dustpan full of dirt was gathered up and tossed into the lake.
Tommy had gotten a broom and a dustpan and was already raising a cloud of dust by her efforts at sweeping.
She shut the door and put away the dustpan and brush behind the wood-box.
She brought out the dustpan and brushed and swept up the pieces.
They very likely dropped it in the car, and when the colored porter was cleaning up he swept it into his dustpan and never noticed it when he threw the dirt in our faces.
This dustpan he had taken to the back door to empty, and, just as his car came near the sleigh in the snowdrift, the porter threw the dust, dirt, and other things from the pan into the air.
The train was going so fast that it made quite a breeze, and this wind carried the stuff from the dustpan into the very faces of Uncle Tad and Sue.
When the dust cleared somewhat she emerged with the dustpan heaped with sweepings and the corners of the room still untouched.
Lydia established little Patience on the dining-room floor with a linen picture book, brought in a broom and dustpan from the kitchen and began furiously to sweep the parlor.
As no one had anything to offer in explanation, Peggy went to find the dustpan and was absent for some minutes.
The dormitory girls must ask for a new dustpan if they break theirs.
Meanwhile dustpan Number 8 remained in the darkest corner of the middle dormitory closet, where it had been pushed in the rush of clearing up the day before.
When we finished yesterday I lent our dustpan to the middle dormitory girls--they said theirs was too broken --and they lost it.
But Hannah would not find the dustpan and take up her dirt, and that was very mean.
It is not the rule to lend things, for it makes confusion; if you lent the dustpan you must find it and take up your dirt, for I have more to do than you.
Then the framework and desk were fetched, with Mrs Fidler standing ready, dustpan and brush in hand, to remove any dirt and fluff that might be underneath.
He took the cane quietly from his brother's hand and replaced it in the stand, with the result that cook uttered a titter and hurried down-stairs, followed by Mary, bearing a dustpan full of broken sherds.
Illustration: The Filed Edge on the Coiled Metal Retains the Sand Particles as It is Rubbed over the Glass Surface] Long Handle for a Dustpan [Illustration] The dustpan is a rather unhandy utensil to use, especially for stout persons.
A stout cord, fastened to the handle and tied into the ring of the dustpan handle, keeps the pan from turning backward, and it is thus possible to push it or carry it with the long handle.
She should then take up the crumbs in a dustpan from under the table, put the chairs in their places, and sweep up the hearth.
The housemaid should now take up in a dustpan any pieces that may be on the carpet; she should dust the room, shut the door, and proceed to another room.
She pointed to her broom and dustpan that she had set in a convenient corner, as proof of her statement.
Just behind her stood the head waiter in his immaculate dress suit, disgust painted on his countenance and a dustpan held aloft in his hand.
A broom and dustpan fill him with anxiety, and he seeks the soft cushions of the big lounge; but when these in their turn are beaten and tossed about, he retreats to the study-table.
Oscar, making a spring and snatching the dustpan from the man's hand.
Oscar had laid a newspaper on the bed and placed the dustpan on it and now was looking mournfully down at Marcus.
When she was comfortably placed again, Ellen had to go through a laborious dusting of the room and all the things in it, even taking a dustpan and brush to the floor, if any speck of dust or crumbs could be seen there.
Ellen seized dustpan and brush, and ran up to her room; and setting about the business with right good will, she soon had her closets in beautiful order.
A sink and a dustpan are labor-saving devices just as truly as are a bread mixer and a vacuum cleaner, but because a sink and a dustpan are necessities as well, they are not usually thought of as true labor-saving devices.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dustpan" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
