In a corner of the churchyard the corpse of the suicide was shovelled into the earth, and nettles will soon be growing rankly over his grave, and the sexton will throw thorns and weeds from the other graves upon it.
The aperture in the deck of the buried ship was then carefully boarded over as before, the sand shovelled back into its place, and to time and the winds were left the work of completely eradicating all remaining traces of our labours.
Dave had shovelled coal all winter, but he had not thought about coal, except as something to be shovelled and shovelled.
Dave shovelled his load without remark, but as he stood for a moment at the finish wiping the sweat from his coal-grimed face Mr. Duncan engaged him in conversation.
Then the signal is given, and the earth or sand is rapidly shovelled in by a party of young men who have been standing in readiness to perform the duty.
I was a young fellow, and in spite of my late despair, the fun of the thing tickled me immensely, and I laughed behind my old tippet, as I shovelled and swept with a vigor that caused the stout cook to smile upon me.
My blood danced in my veins, and all my despair seemed shovelled away with the snow I had cleared from other people's paths.
Well, if I could find out, and have 'em shovelled back in the street, we'd be in a good position.
They chattered like daws and shovelled down the sickly liquor that made the rooms reek.
When he got there he lowered the coffin into the grave, shovelled the earth on top of it, and returned to the merchant's house.
The peasant got home, shovelled the money into his cellar, took the oxen back to his neighbor, and set about considering how he should manage.
Between seven hundred and a thousand miles out, this particular batch of coal was reached and shovelled into the forward furnaces.
Some aggrieved blackguard on the dock, acting on his own or under command of his 'Union,' shovelled half a dozen bombs in with the coal.
The snow was shovelled clean from the footpaths, and guardsmen had made smooth the drives for incoming sleighs.
The great drawbacks are the depths of snow to be shovelledaway or tramped down, and the wearisome windings of the river.
The coal was in the after hold and was needed in the bunkers forward, so every piece had to be shovelled into bushel baskets, hoisted to the gun deck, and carried by hand to the chute leading to the port and starboard bunkers.
He seized it and shovelledvolumes of snow from the house-top into the chimney.
I brought them without many words to the quarry, where ten times the number of our clodhoppers would only have shovelled at one another.
On a crowbar showing us where the logs were buried, shovelled off the dirt and pried them out.
Youngsters shovelled a strip on the pond and made a fine slide.
As ashes were scraped they were shovelled into the boxes on the sleds and started for Magarth's, returning with small loads of boards.
Then there was a pound of tea, perhaps more; for they took it from the chest, and shovelled it up like sand, both hands full at once.
They fetched the spades and shovelled away half an hour, but it was very warm, and they sat down presently inside the fence, which began to cast a shadow.
I shovelled all the letters on to your table, just as Pamela left them.
And having shovelled them all off on to her, he raced along the passage to the library in search of Elizabeth.
Every two or three weeks this layer was shovelledout and mixed thoroughly, and was replaced by a new layer.
The fireman instantly became a startling silhouette, and the coal that he shovelled into what was like a flaming mouth of a cavern seemed sparkling black diamonds.
We all deserved the punishment, because the others would have shovelled down snow just as we did if they'd thought of it--only they are not so quick at thinking of things as we are.
Then, while Stella sat on the bank and watched the water rise, I shovelled some of the earth removed from the basin into the now abandoned temporary channel, and packed it down.
The loose snow was shovelled away and the steps dug in the hard snow beneath, and the creepers upon our feet gave good grip in it.
If this is lacking, the roof must be well tramped after rain by bare feet, and in all cases the snow must be shovelled off.
A man shovelled most of the snow out of my room, and tried to make a fire but failed, as neither he nor I could stand the smoke produced by the attempt.
We dug where the cross and the grave posts were, We shovelled away the mould, When sudden a vein of quartz lay bare All gleaming with yellow gold.
And we thought of the hint that the swagman gave When he went to the Great Unseen -- We shovelled the skeleton out of the grave To see what his hint might mean.
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