No regular fire is made during the first two hours, but a gentle heat merely is kept up by throwing one or two shovelfuls of small coal upon the grate from time to time.
To increase the heat, and to render the fire more steady and durable, a few shovelfuls of coals are thrown over the turf.
Melt a ton of soft lead, and sprinkle round its sides in the iron pot, about two shovelfuls of wood ashes, taking care to leave the centre clear; then put into the middle about 40 pounds of arsenic to form a rich alloy with the lead.
The smelter next throws in by his middle door, a few shovelfuls of quicklime upon the lead bath.
I have swept shovelfuls of mud out of it three times to-day.
We sat with fine gravel driving in our faces, and this morning I carried four shovelfuls of mud out of my room.
The shovelfulsof dung he might have brought to cover our garden if he had only given his heart to it!
This was done, and not a step from the grave would the grandmother take till the first shovelfuls had fallen on the coffin and had partially buried the white ship.
Then he threw in an armful of gum-leaves, and then, very reluctantly, took the shovel and dropped in a few shovelfuls of earth.
He also tried to steer the first few shovelfuls gently down against the end of the grave with the back of the shovel turned outwards, but the hard dry Darling River clods rebounded and knocked all the same.
A few shovelfuls of earth, a sprinkling of holy water by a priest, and all was said.
Before leaving the spot, he caused me to carry about a dozen shovelfuls of the earth away, and cast them into the river, which flowed at the distance of three or four hundred yards.
Notwithstanding the quantity of earth I had removed the night before, there was still more than enough to fill up the grave to the level of the other ground, and I had four or five shovelfuls more to carry down and cast into the river.
If the work is to be done on a large scale, one or two shovelfuls will pin the canes to the earth, and then, by throwing a furrow over them on both sides with a plow, the labor is soon accomplished.
Johnny went over to speak to our neighbour, who was engaged in tossing out shovelfuls of earth from an excavation into which he had nearly disappeared.
Johnny held the pail, while Yank and I vied with each other in being the first to get our shovelfuls into that receptacle.
I would light the fire by putting in a fewshovelfuls of live coal from one of them instead of using firewood; that is all the difference I would make.
When the fires required replenishing, the flap was opened, then the door and steam cock, and six shovelfuls of coals were hastily thrown in evenly over the fire, and the door was then shut.
Shovelfuls of earth are thrown on to the fire, which is now beginning to grow less violent.
This was undoubtedly the remotest point reached by the man, and if one of his experience should be frightened out by a few shovelfuls of earth, or scared at finding himself in a pocket, Tom thought himself entitled to follow his lead.
I followed along after him for two weeks, and in every camping-place there were two shovelfuls of dirt flung out.
Then all the men on the furnace and all the men on your neighbor's furnace form a dolomite line, and marching in file to the open door, fling their shovelfuls across the flaming void to the back-wall.
We loosened the slag with picks first, and then lifted forkfuls and shovelfuls into the crane-carried boxes.
The clay that was under them was soft and easy to dig, but he had not thrown up more than three or four shovelfuls when he felt the iron touch something soft like flesh.
He threw up three or four more shovelfuls from around it, and then he saw that it was another body that was buried in the same place.
Having set out the plants, I should next scatter over and about them one or two shovelfuls of old compost or decayed manure of some kind.
The plants should be four feet apart each way, and two or three shovelfuls of rich compost worked into the soil where the plant is to stand.
And we might--" she was digging now, cutting away the thin sod, then tossing outshovelfuls of sandy soil.
Strangely enough, the big girl had thrown out but three shovelfuls of sand when again her blade rang.
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