The minor prophet had betaken himself again to his work, delving deeper, and throwing slow spadeful after spadeful to the surface.
After a short address by one of the commissioners, Samuel Young, and amid a burst of artillery, Judge Richardson, the first contractor, threw out the first spadeful of earth.
At Washington, President John Quincy Adams, amid the cheering of thousands, lifted the first spadeful of earth in the great work of digging a canal from Washington to Cumberland.
The best way of collecting these is to stir up a spadeful of the sand in a bucket of water, and, after allowing the sand to settle for a few seconds, to pour off the water through a muslin bag.
All these were for giving up; because I can tell you it is no joke to throw out spadeful after spadeful of this heavy deceitful sand, with half of it coming back into the hole; and the place where you stand not steadfast.
Up comes a spadeful of earth and quartz that is all lovely with soiled lumps and leaves and sprays of gold.
You take a spadeful of earth from the hill-side and put it in a large tin pan and dissolve and wash it gradually away till nothing is left but a teaspoonful of fine sediment.
Both men watched narrowly and anxiously, as spadeful after spadeful of dirt quickly disappeared from the white ground.
As I continued to explore the hidden highway of snakes, turtles, and fishes, I found in almost every spadeful of mud and matted weeds one or more brown-black fishes that were as much at home as ever an earth-worm in the firmer soil.
Scanning each spadeful of dirt for traces of bones, we soon found them, and all was excitement.
Dannie turned a spadeful of earth and broke it open, and Jimmy squatted by the can, and began picking out the angle worms.
Dannie turned another spadeful of earth and studied the premises, while Jimmy gathered the worms.
At half-past three o'clock on November 28th, I turned the firstspadeful of earth in the breaking of ground for the Jewish Orphans' Home of Southern California.
This entire sandy district was covered, "cartload by cartload, spadeful by spadeful with good soil brought from elsewhere.
The work of excavation was begun in the Lowestoft section on September 4th, when Mr. Crisp Brown dug the first spadeful of earth, and a dinner and aquatic sports were held to celebrate the event.
Miss Wodehouse each deposited a spadeful of earth upon a barrow, which was wheeled away by the Mayor.
I wonder, when you heard the first clod drop From the spadeful at the grave-side, felt you free To investigate who twitched your funeral scarf Or brushed your flounces?
Spadeful after spadeful of earth was thrown out, but still the bottom was not reached.
Let me," offered Herold; and went on as the Englishman had done, holding up each spadeful for inspection.
And with each spadeful he bent over and examined the clay very carefully.
So the people of Bewdley were once saved from destruction by a drunken cobbler, who foregather'd with the man of sin, as the latter was travelling with a spadeful of earth to dam up the Severn, and thereby inundate the country.
And he threw a spadeful of earth on the coffin, which produced a hollow sound.
Yesterday a spadeful of diamonds dumped upon a velvet cloth was only a spadeful of diamonds to him, and it was nothing more.
Schliemann and his wife had fingered over every spadeful of dirt.
Now each man looked over every spadeful of earth himself, as he dug it up.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spadeful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
