Slowly they retreated with clattering spades and a heavy tread.
A dozen men were working--the full corps of gardeners without doubt--and a single glance sufficed to show me that such of the surface as had not been upturned by their spades had been harried by their footsteps.
Though her professed purpose had been to seek the body of her child, the spades had not gone deeper than their length.
We took my remuda, the spades and axes, and started for the riffle.
I can take spades and axes, and in two hours' time cut down and widen that wagon-way until the herds can cross.
Does it need so long an exordium to excuse thee, poor Parson Dale, for turning up that ace of spades with so triumphant a smile at thy partner?
Two who carried spades commenced digging, while a like number of shovel-men followed, throwing out the loose earth.
The old man disappears, but he returns with three grave-diggers, who brandish their spades in terrifying manner.
A few minutes in a south-easterly direction brought us to the Bois d'Havrincourt, a large ungainly wood, the shape of which was something between the ace of spades and the ace of clubs.
A thought comes to him; he quickly rises, after making sure that it was the ace of spades that the dead man was going to take, and cries: "But he will never know that he was going to get the ace of spades and a grand slam!
When the children had rested and eaten their luncheon, they seized hoes and spades and began to work.
Other implements were needed, so a couple of long-legged boys were sent down to the village for spades and hoes.
While the rest of us were starting our camp-fire, Harry was digging up spades full of earth as close to the trunk of the tree as he could get the spade.
The tent still lay where it had fallen, but the case of spades had disappeared.
In Pope's Ombre spades are trumps, and the number is eleven: the number which they would be if the cards were forty.
Nine cards in the black, and ten in the red suits, in addition to the aces of spades and clubs, Spadille and Basto, which are trumps in all suits.
Crowds toiled on the ramparts, singing over their spades the song then sung throughout Poland, calling the Pole to the labour without which he would be torn from his brothers, "a prisoner on his own soil.
Ye'd better taen up spades and shools, Or knappin-hammers.
Pattle, or pettle, a small spades to clean the plough.
We took with us three bags of flour, a number of empty casks and kegs, and two pack-saddles, besides spades and buckets, and such other minor articles as were likely to be required.
Though there was no water in this channel below the base of the hill, on sending a party a mile and a half up it with spades and buckets, we got, by digging in the gravelly bed, as much as sufficed for ourselves and horses.
Dismounting, she left Spades free to graze on the new green grass that carpeted the ground.
Spades took a swinging, rhythmic lope up the winding trail.
For no gait suited her until Spades was running hard and fast through the glades.
I was only trying out Spades to see how fast he could run," returned Ellen.
She saw and felt, but had no thrill, except now and then a thrill of alarm when Spadesslid to his haunches down some steep, damp, piny declivity.
Spades was wet and dusty and his satiny skin quivered.
Spades threw up his head, snorted, and started forward at a trot.
With that she pulled her saddle off Spades and, throwing it over her shoulder, she walked off to her cabin.
Next day she rode up the canyon to show Spades to her friend John Sprague.
Spades loped on the levels, leaped the washes, trotted over the rocky ground, and took to a walk up the long slope.
Spades was accustomed to having grain, and in the mornings he would come down to the ranch and whistle.
Ellen found she could not lead Spades because he slid down upon her heels, so she looped the end of her reins over the pommel and left him free.
The next received a diamond, the next a heart, and so on; but the ace of spades was still undelivered.
Wish me, if you have any kindness to so fallen a being--wish the ace of spades for me to-night!
The nine of clubs fell to his lot; the three of spades was dealt to Geraldine; and the queen of hearts to Mr. Malthus, who was unable to suppress a sob of relief.
When the diggers returned, their spades and picks were gone and the ground was smooth.
After the doctor had performed the proper ceremonies they fell to work, but no sooner had their spades touched the lid of an iron-bound chest than a sturdy rogue with a red flannel cap leaped out of the bushes.
VI The Queen of Spades I am very fond of Esper Indiman, but there are times when he is positively unfit for human society.
Never heard of the Queen of Spades in this connection?
There was the banded hair over the eyes, the slightly drooping mouth, the peculiar upspring of the eyebrow arch--the Queen of Spades in person, as Indiman had said.
I knew it was necessary to surprise him, and so I borrowed the photograph and used it to transmogrify the queen of spades card.
Yes, and the Queen ofSpades in person," he added, in an undertone, for L.
You wouldn't expect to find a two of spades at the bottom of it," said the Padre with singular acidity.
A detail from each company is formed into a squad, and armed with spades or shovels they search the field for the dead.
They brought spades and shovels from the wagons, and began to throw up an earthwork, toiling in the almost pitchy darkness.
While the spades were yet at work the Mexican cannon opened anew upon the Alamo.
Romulus fetched the spades and industriously began to dig into Wang Tai's grave, and Moses, crowing and laughing, fell to as assistant, and as the result of their labor the earth flew to either side.
The grave filled, the diggers hid their spades behind the oven, Romulus watching them narrowly.
