I would give up your company in heaven for hers in hell any day," said Moleskin, as the man with the spade turned into a turnip field by the roadside.
The last thing I saw as I turned out on the high-road was Sandy leaning over his draining spade like some God-forsaken spirit of the moorland.
Passing along we overtook a dour-faced man who carried a spade over his shoulder.
A man struck at the worm with his spade and broke the bone into three pieces.
If I happened to be placed on a square acre of earth fresh from the hands of the Creator, and given a spade and shovel to work with, what use could I make of those tools of labour?
I could not earn my living with a spade and shovel.
As she went by the man with the spade turned and looked after her.
He glanced almost mechanically in that direction, and then nearly dropped his spade as he made out a girl's head surmounted by a large hat.
Such paltry distinctions as those of wealth and poverty are soon leveled by the spade and mattock; the damp breath of the grave blots them out forever.
And he said he didn't care, and he took the spade and sent the scraws out flying, to the right and to the left.
And he never put a spade into the ground again, for that night he was taken ill, and died shortly after.
The spade struck against a hard substance; it was a stone, that shone dazzling white.
A block of marble soon appeared, a rounded shoulder was laid bare; and now the spade was plied with a more careful hand, and presently a female head was seen, and butterflies' wings.
She sank deeper than the spade of the sexton could penetrate, till the churchyard became a roof above her.
The only tools necessary for a small garden are a spade or spading fork, a hoe, a rake, and a line or piece of cord.
Dig up the soil to a depth of 6 to 10 inches, using a spade or spading fork.
It was securely locked and fastened with a padlock, and it took a good many blows with the blade of the spade to burst the bolt.
Tom carried a spadeover his shoulder and the reverend gentleman walked along beside him with his cane.
The sun was sloping well toward the west when the blade of Tom Chist's spade struck upon something hard.
The Davidson and McKay families had re-established themselves on their farms, rebuilt their houses and planted their fields, and splendid crops of all kinds were now flourishing, ready for spade and sickle.
Jenkins, who chanced to come round the corner of the house at the moment, with a spade on his shoulder.
They observe annually a feast in honor of Darhba, an ordinary weed, and offer up sacrifices to spade and pick.
From a piece of ironwood, cut in the forest with great labour, I made a spadeto dig with.
From her I learned to call a spade a blankety blankety spadeand to stand up to anyone who had done me or mine wrong.
As, however, your left adversary has the lead, he would at once lead a spade up to your indicated weak suit.
Two packs of cards of different patterns are taken, and a sequence from ace upwards, equal to the number of tables, is selected from the club and spade suits of each.
Half the Bushman's and Bushwoman's time is occupied in digging for these roots; and the spade employed is the stone-headed staff already described.
The Great Mayor, laying his golden spade at the feet of the Supreme Priest, knelt in silence.
He was armed with a golden spade and followed by one hundred male and female singers, clad all in white and chanting the Hymn to the Gone Away.
The Great Mayor touched the grave with his golden spade (which he then presented to the Supreme Priest) and two stalwart diggers with iron ones set vigorously to work.
Ere he turned to go, Andrew Gray took up the spade and gently beat down the turf on the grave, and his last look at his son's loved resting place was blinded by unwonted tears.
The bell in the tower rang one, and then two, and still Watty did not halt, but ere the solemn hands moved round to three his work was done, for his spade had struck with a dull sound on Agnes Hepburn's coffin lid.
I said, pretending to do something with the spade so as not to be obliged to look at her.
In the tensity of the silence the clink of my spade in the dry dusty furrow seemed to my wrought-up mind to sound as with a loud hammering.
For the rest, five minutes in thy house with a spade and a string bed to hang thee on head down, and I pay every fighter for the faith in Delhi his arrears.
At this instant the silent figure flung itself adroitly off the dike, dropping the spade and eluding Will's grasp.
Then he started up, and raised his spade threateningly.
Then came the sound of a spade thrust into the clay with violence.
This should be continued to the top of the slope, and the flat top of the dyke should also be sodded,—the sods on the top, and on the slope, being firmly beaten to their places with the back of the spade or other suitable implement.
I did not know my loss Till one day twelve months later suddenly I leaned upon my spade and saw it all, Though far beyond the sky-line.
The stroke of thespade and the harsh voice of the man directing the work greeted my disquieted ears.
A murmur of relief from one end of the cellar to the other, and every spade was drawn out of the ground.
Any one could see that no spade has been at work here before in years.
But there he was in blue overalls, sinking his spade deep for settings, digging ditches and driving furrows through the virgin soil, while the masons and carpenters built his ranch house.
Think of Mamie Devore in the thick of the great jelly competition, while the weight of Joe Mathewson's shoulders starts a spade into the soil as if it were going right to the centre of the earth.
The boy commenced the work, but at the first stroke his fragile pick and spade broke into a thousand fragments.
The tools were a pick of glass and a spade of earthenware.
Barratier struck his perpendicular spade into the black soil in a truly workmanlike manner, utilizing the foundation of the wall as one side of the oblong pit.
I chose four boys of uniform size for pall-bearers; Barratier was to have a spade ready and to dig the grave, and when it was filled in we would sing a hymn.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spade" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
