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Armed with shovels they attacked the dark, soft earth at a place the professor indicated. For an hour or more they worked and filled three of the lead carboys. Then Jack spoke. "It's queer," he said, "but I begin to feel terribly tired, and I haven't worked long, either." "So do I," said Tom. "I don't feel as if I could lift another shovelful." "I'm all in," added Dick, throwing down his spade.
In a moment Margaret heard the wood roaring well, then she took off a cover and sprinkled on one shovel of coal and closed the top again; as soon as she saw by peeping in that this was red, she put on another, scattering it evenly all around, and presently she added a third shovelful, and by this time the wood was well burned away and the coal was hot, so she knew the fire was made.
An iron rod sunk into the ground, encountered a hard substance some four feet below. Two men set to work, and dug with energy. Every eye was fixed upon this trench increasing in depth with every shovelful of earth which the two labourers cast aside. Monsieur de Lamotte was nearly fainting, and his emotion impressed everyone except Derues.
They say it will add to us on one side what the great river is taking from us on the other; but myself I would never throw in a shovelful: God made this world; it is good enough; and when the water rises we can take to boats. The Le Compts lived in this very house, and the old Barbeaus lived next, on the corner, where this rigolé road crosses the street running north and south.
Margaret carefully swept up the greater part of the ashes, working from the edges of the hearth toward the middle, and put them into the scuttle. Once she spilled a shovelful, but as a newspaper was spread on the carpet it did not matter. Her aunt told her to be sure and always have plenty of papers ready to use in housework, because in the end they saved so much work.
If the earth is of such a nature that it sticks to the shovel, this relation does not hold. For the elements of shoveling we have therefore: s = time filling shovel and straightening up ready to throw. t = time throwing one shovelful. w = time walking one foot with loaded shovel. w1 = time returning one foot with empty shovel. L = load of a shovel in cubic feet.
Paul, in 1880 a hamlet of a few huts, had by 1890 20,000 to 30,000 people, with street-cars, large business blocks, fine houses and stores. The pioneer railway in Minnesota was laid in 1862, from St. Paul to St. Anthony, the first shovelful of earth being lifted by a citizen of St.
She felt dreadfully cold, for her clothes were torn, and she was herself so frail and delicate, that poor little Tiny was nearly frozen to death. It began to snow too; and the snow-flakes, as they fell upon her, were like a whole shovelful falling upon one of us, for we are tall, but she was only an inch high.
Don't you nor any one else move a shovelful of dirt till I tell you to." Hiram Look, retired showman and steady loafer in the selectman's office, rolled his long cigar across his lips and grunted indorsement. "Squawnk!" The appeal outside was a bit more insistent. Mr. Gammon sighed.
After the cascalho had been thus purified, it was carefully removed to the shed to be finally washed. Here seven slaves were seated on the side of a small canal, about four feet broad, with their legs in the water nearly up to their knees. This canal is called the lavadeira. Each man had a small wooden platter, into which another slave, who stood behind him, put a shovelful of purified cascalho.
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