The leaders did pause, until all the shovelshad come abreast.
The shovels were marshaled and on their marks at the city line.
We watched as the shovels cut an irregular path through streets, parks and open lots in the city snapping at everything in their way until they reached the water-front.
This was the first time that power shovels of this size had been used to dig a ditch more than a thousand miles long.
Rushing from every shanty near the township, and issuing from the main street in a chaotic mass, a perfect sea of men bearing axes and picks and shovels came surging down on us.
The dust that whirled about the shovels blackened and choked him, but he worked on savagely.
The tub came down by and by, in fact, two of them, and those who had no shovels bailed up the slimy kernels with their hats and hands; but each time the chain swung through the hatch the tub below was full.
The bent figures of half naked men with shovels were forced out of the shadows.
Through lifetime he shovels and digs like a slave, And digs--till at length he has dug his own grave.
The marines repaired the roads; not always using the picks and shovels themselves, but seeing to it that somebody did, paying a living wage for such work to the natives.
As soon as the axe-men had effected an entry to this deposit, other men with shovels and picks began to remove the filling.
When the sawhorses were completed, Orde directed the picks and shovels to be brought up.
The engineers were unarmed, but they picked up what weapons they could find and used shovels and fists as well as they retired before the German attack.
The engineers snatched up rifles and such weapons as they could from fallen soldiers, and with these and their shovels helped the British to hold their line.
I had a Cameleon for a neighbour, who, in the garb of an Irishman, flung his three half-shovels out of a hole on the hill punctually every morning, and that was his work before breakfast.
There is a living witness to the above circumstance, a countryman of mine, whose name I do not remember just now, but he wore at the time a red shirt, with picks and shovels all over it.
They found the range soon enough, but made a dozen mistakes in measurements; and it was long toward midnight, when the oil of the lanterns ran low, that their shovels bore down into the precious pocket.
With three Sardinian donkeys, strong and patient little brutes, with lanterns and shovels and sacks, the two fared into the pines.
In the spring nearly all the aged people carry one of the wooden shovels to clear away a path or as a help to walk while the slushy snow is so treacherous.
Sometimes in the mountains of Pennsylvania the trucks would be blocked in snow and the patriotic citizens of the community would get out with shovels and work until the supplies again started on their way.
For three hours plans were discussed, and it was finally determined to go to work with shovels and picks, but not until after Christmas.
Our caravan included a blacksmith's forge, also a regular wrecking outfit, and in a short time big wooden shovels were made from blocks of pine with handles stoutly attached with iron bands.
Shovels and spades, of the forms usually found upon well-furnished farms, and adapted to its soil, will be found sufficient.
Long-handled shovels and spades are much preferred, usually, by Irish laborers, whose fancy is worth consulting in matters with which they have so much to do.
The shovels and spades which have been heretofore in most common use in New England are made with short handles, thus-- [Illustration: Figs.
So they twain obtained shovels and other implements of labour, enlisted the service of native helpers, and went out into the desert, making there the first golf course of Egypt.
Others were still engaged in procuring shovels and picks and pans for their mock equipment as miners, and this, again, gave Marshall's adherents the advantage.
And then Steptoe appeared with part of his straggling followers, who were celebrating their easy invasion by clattering their picks and shovels and beating loudly upon their tins and prospecting-pans.
Then they rushed in stoves, picks, shovels and other hardware, but the last thing they seemed to think of delivering was food, which was needed more than anything else.
Ordinary shovels for digging brought $17 and $18 apiece, and other stuff of that kind could not be obtained.
Why, even the men on foot are lugging picks and shovels and gold-pans on their backs!
Again, in entering some little valley or ravine, they would come suddenly upon a picturesque little company of miners hard at work with picks and shovels and pans and cradles, searching for the elusive yellow grains of gold.
For a couple of minutes longer Ham shovels out the dirt, but more slowly and carefully now.
Thure looked curiously and excitedly around him at the various groups of miners hard at work with their picks or shovels or pans or other washing machines.
Fortunately they had brought their shovels out of the cave.
Sammy and his two chums had gone alone to the cave, and they had taken with them shovels to enlarge it, as it was getting too crowded on account of so many boys wanting to enter it.
And if you do go, be sure to bring picks and shovels to dig for the pirate gold," she added, with a smile.
He throws back his head, and he shovels for his life; he scorns the poor fellows who are looking down upon him; and he sends up bucketfuls of his own spooning, perhaps in the form of gravelly verse.
Then we picked him up with a couple of shovels and threw him overboard.
I stayed until, at the approach of sunset, the work of the shovels ceased, and hundreds of men swarmed out of the Cut, and sought their quarters and the evening meal.
On the southern slope about the same number of steam shovels are at work, the spoil being taken to the southern dumping grounds on the Pacific side, including the trestle dump for the breakwater to Naos Island.
Looking round, I found that many other steam shovels and their crews were idle from the same cause, the machinery for transportation not having been provided in proper proportion to the machinery of excavation.
The record of most steam shovels on such work is therefore a rather poor one, when the machine really made a good showing for the crippled condition of its car service.
Sometimes the pit tracks behind the steam shovels are utilized for this purpose, but these tracks are taken up too often, and should not be depended upon for side tracks, though they may be used as such occasionally.
Two and often three steam shovels are employed at the same time, working near the ends of the cut until the through track has been laid, and then following each other, as shown in Fig.
The next morning I and two companions started from our friends with four days provisions, and shovels and axes to build us a hut in the woods.
Now, will one of you stay and show me the way back, and the others go on to Mr Jackson's and other places, and bring a strong party of men with shovels on after us?
Mr Humphreys then ran into the yard, and bade the four labourers provide themselves with shovels and prepare to accompany him at once.
The first half-mile took three hours to cover; in several places we had to cut roads with ice-axes and shovels and also to build a bridge across a water-lead.
Hunter and Laseron started with picks and shovels to enlarge the Cave, and, working in relays, we had soon expanded it to eight feet by seven feet.
There was a rush for shovels to fill the cookers with snow and a race to boil hoosh.
On all but the worst days a gang of men worked with picks and shovels digging out the Hangar, so that Bickerton could test the air-tractor sledge.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shovels" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
