The work of shovelling the coal into bags was back-breaking, for no two consecutive shovelfuls were exactly the same weight; in addition, he found it extremely difficult to keep his footing.
As the rains came to facilitate the sluicing, more men were added to the force shovelling in the creeks, and this made our work heavier.
The result of four men shovelling out of the creek bed from a cut five feet to bedrock for twenty hours amounted to fourteen thousand dollars in gold dust.
The season is short in Alaska and the claim-owner is generally a hustler; and men who are paid ten dollars a day for shovelling must jump to earn their money.
With that we walked back to the road, feeling very close and friendly--and shovelling again, not saying much.
After that, shovelling part of the time in a leisurely way, and part of the time responding to the urgent request of the signs by the roadside (it pays to advertise!
He began shovelling again in the road as if to prove how busy he was.
When the heap bid fair to block her in altogether, she backed awkwardly, shovelling it out as she came.
He would work all night, dislodging stones and shovelling earth, if at the end there was a chance of a meal of rabbits.
He then shovelled off the top of the chimney, which was ornamented with a big round cushion of snow, and then by beating and shovelling he was able to clear the door, which he opened wide, and Mrs. Barnes came up on the ladder to look out.
Day after day we went on shovelling in, and about twice a week we made a clean-up.
Trail all filled in with snow, and had dreadful time shovelling it out.
One afternoon I was working on the dump, intent on shovelling in as much dirt as possible before supper, when, on looking up, who should greet me but Locasto.
The little ants were shovelling into it from one of their heaps, and from that point it swirled on into the stream, a current of mud and stone.
He was off up on Eldorado somewhere, shovelling dirt into a sluice-box for ten dollars a day.
A solitary man was at work shovelling coal out of her middle hold into a large metal bucket.
There was an old road-mender busy by the bridge end, shovelling together the road scrapings in small heaps.
I went from shovelling slag in the pit, the crane, to second helper and melter; they gave me the furnace after a year and now I am foreman.
At another furnace, an opened door, where the heat poured out in a constricting blast, workmen were shovelling in powdery white stone; moving up with their heads averted, and quickly retreating with shielding arms.
The log would be seasoned more thoroughly if it were saturated with boiling water before putting it into the trench; that can be done by laying it in a deep narrow puddle, and shovelling hot stones into the water.
If the puddle is made to boil by shovelling in hot stones, as described in the last paragraph, the stick will bend more easily.
Morning, mate," said a cheery voice, as he came upon two men busily shovelling snow from a pit beneath a rough shelter of poles, while a hut was close by.
Dense columns of black smoke poured from her funnel; every available man of her engine-room staff gave a hand in shovelling the "black diamonds" into the furnaces.
The firemen, stripped to the waist, were shovelling coal with rapid yet dexterous haste.
Perhaps we're shovelling it in, all the time, shovelling it in.
There's nothing I can think of except shovelling snow.
Keep it up, foretop,' I shouted, shovelling for all I was worth, Bob and the Angel keeping me busy with empty baskets.
Now, it's too late for me to beginshovelling and sifting at alphabeds and grammar-books.
But we'll have some shovelling to do in the morning.
It hardly seemed necessary to do any shovelling yet; but the white flakes fell faster and faster, hour after hour, and night came on earlier than usual.
There was incessant shovelling of snow to keep any sort of passage open to the four dog-tents that were left standing, as well as to our own underground dwelling, over which the snow covering had been growing constantly higher.
I am shovelling in the sunbeams,” replied the man, “to ripen the corn.
He seemed to be working very hard, shovelling the air in at the door.
I wonder now,' said Jack, 'what it is digging and shovelling up yonder at the top of the rock.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shovelling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
