Experience has taught you to make a small but hot fire, and when this is well under way you kick open a rotted, moss-grown cedar and scoop up handfuls of damp mould.
McCarthy was racing upon the ball, ready to scoop it in perfect position for a throw.
He knelt down and began to scoop the earth out, using his two hands together.
He raised one of the slabs with difficulty, turned it over, propped it with a billet of beech wood, and began to scoop out a hole in the hard earth, using a mason's trowel.
Anyone can scoop ruts in asphalt and macadam roads which turn soft in hot weather; passing trucks will accentuate the ruts to a point where substantial repair will be needed.
I saw the handle of something like a broom or a water scoop moving above the sandbags.
I got out my knife, took a scoop out of the clay wall, and fishing out a candle-end from my pocket, stuck it in the niche, lit it and a cigarette.
I shall not soon forget the feeling with which I first plunged my scoop into the soil beneath me.
As for myself, armed with a large scoop or trowel, and a shallow tin pail, I leapt into the bed of the rivulet, at a spot where I perceived no trace of the gravel and earth having been artificially disturbed.
The Indians wash their hands before and after eating, a very necessary practice, as they eat exclusively with their fingers, using the tortillas to scoop up gravy, beans, and other mushy foodstuffs.
There were seven bark canoes lying on the shore, and near them hung upon a tree some parts of a turtle; and scoop nets, such as those of Hervey's Bay, were also seen.
Traces of inhabitants were found upon all the shores where we landed, but the natives kept out of sight after the little skirmish on the first day of our arrival; they subsist partly on turtle, and possess bark canoes and scoop nets.
At two o'clock the naturalists returned, bringing some of the scoop nets used by the natives in catching fish; and we then quitted our new friends, after presenting them with hatchets and other testimonials of our satisfaction.
I noticed in most of them a hard tumour on the outer knuckle of the wrist, which, if we understood them aright, was caused by the stretcher of the scoop coming in contact with this part in the act of throwing the net.
If you've really got a scoop or something that will make 'em sit up, run it instead of my stuff.
Riggs let him in, quizzed him to find out what he knew, excused himself, and then called me to tell me that the time was up, that I'd better shoot the yarn right through if I wanted to scoop the rest of the dailies.
If you promise, I assure you that no one else will get the release until your paper has the scoop all sewed up.
Confining the action of glaciers to the simple rubbing away of the rocks, and allowing them sufficient time to act, it is not a matter of opinion, but a physical certainty, that they will scoopout valleys.
He strode to the front of the store, the tin scoopin his hand still held recklessly upside down.
The scoop dropped from his hand and clattered upon the floor; he let it lay.
His feet are large and powerful, and he arranges his long toes in the form of a scoop as he plunges into the river; this scoop is his fishing-tackle with which he brings up his finny food.
Each charge was weighed in a scoop balanced on the arm of a bamboo scale, thus securing a uniform weight for the cakes.
All Igorot have large scoop nets for catching them and immense bottle-like baskets in which to put them and transport them home.
Harold stood in the bow, and Robert amidships, one with a basket, and the other with a scoop net, ready to dip it from the water.
We can first catch some of these with our scoop net, and then try for whatever may bite.
Had ever a journalist such an opening and so little chance of using it--the scoop of scoops, and no one to appreciate it?
Rick watched the big scoop vanish into the Albatross' hold, then looked for Carrots Kelso.
Rick paused long enough to scoop up the bucket of sand.
Cap'n Mike motioned to the two boys and led the way up the gangplank just as a scoop full of menhaden rose from the hold and passed overhead.
Captain Lake's forehead wrinkled as he watched the scoop return for another load.
He jumped forward, glancing up, just as the great fish scoop opened over his head.
He had to raise his voice above the noise of the scoop as it lifted from the trawler's hold.
Rick saw a scoopdrop into the hold and come up with a slippery half-ton of menhaden.
Then the scoop can be dumped without having all that weight smash against the end of the track and break things.
A scoopwhirred out of the hold, crossed the pier, dumped its load and started the return.
What do you suppose he dumped the scoop on us for?
The scoop came back rapidly, sped out the track extension above the hold, and paused.
In earlier types of the Coastal, the air scoop supplying air to the air duct was fitted in the slip stream of the forward engine, but later this was fitted aft of the after engine.
Cut a slice off the bottom, so that they will stand upright, and scoop the inside out carefully.
And he skids his wooden plough round another scoop of earth.
For a moment we were in the wide scoop of the river-bed.
When set, with a hot spoon scoop out the aspic from the centre of each mould and fill in the space with a mixture of the vegetables and jelly mayonnaise, leaving an open space at the top to be filled with half-set aspic.
Remove a round piece from the stem end of the tomatoes and scoop out the seeds and centre.
Peel five tomatoes, cut off the stem ends and scoopout the pulp, thus forming cups; set, turned upside down, in a cool place.
Scoop out the centres of the tomatoes, after removing the skin, and chill thoroughly.
Peel the tomatoes; cut out a circular piece at the stem end of each and scoop out the flesh so as to form cups.
Scoop out the centres of the artichokes and fill with mayonnaise, or with ravigote, tartare or tyrolienne sauce.
When ready to serve, rub off the skin, scoop out the centre of each to form a cup, and arrange the cups on lettuce leaves.
