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"A new house would have been better and cheaper, in the end." He thrust his spade deep, a sign that he considered the conversation at an end. "Tell one of the other men to dig this," she objected. "I want to make a list of the plants we need and get the order out." "I can do that tonight, Miss Orr," he returned, going on with his digging. "The men are busy in the orchards this morning."
They had thick woollen tunics, like those of the fishers, under them, and their arms were bare, and sinewy with long toil with spade and hoe, for these two were the working brothers in field and garden. We helped Gerda into the stern sheets, and pushed off, splashing knee deep into the water as we ran the boat out among the waves.
I don't wish to live I don't wish to live any longer in Russia!" And the spade made swifter progress than ever in Mísha's hands. "The devil knows the meaning of this!" thought the speculator: "he actually is burying himself." "Mikhaíl Andréitch," he began afresh, "listen; I really am guilty toward you; people did not represent you properly to me." Mísha went on digging.
Börje was standing deep down in the ditch, trying to loosen a clump of sod. He had stepped on a piece of glass, and received an ugly gash on the bottom of his foot, so that he could hardly step on it. Imagine the torture of having to stand and push the spade into the soil with an injured foot! "Aren't you going to quit soon?" asked Jan.
At last, with some difficulty, they tugged and hauled the chest up out of the sand to the surface, where it lay covered all over with the grit that clung to it. 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. Parson Jones himself lifted the lid. Tom Chist leaned forward and gazed down into the open box.
Then came the cook's room on one side, with a narrow passageway on the other, into a small room in the front end of the car. This car was sixty feet in length and would make you think you were in a palace hotel on wheels. Hank Small, who had hands as big as a garden spade, was the engineer, with engine No. 96, which was always expected to pull the pay car.
Birt could only follow when the professor suddenly handed back the specimens with a peremptory "Come come! We must go for the spade. But when we reach your mother's house I will test this mineral, and you shall see for yourself what you have lost." Mrs. Dicey's first impression upon meeting the stranger and learning of his mission was not altogether surprise as Birt had expected.
"A rake and a hoe and a claw and a trowel and a spade and a heavy line with some pegs to do marking with." "We've found that it's a comfort to your back to have another claw mounted on the end of a handle as long as a hoe," contributed Margaret. "Two claws," Dorothy amended her list, isn't many." "And a lot of dibbles." "Dibbles!" "Short flat sticks whittled to a point.
For when I had opened his book at the word 'single-hearted, he at once told me that Knockbrex was an open, frank, natural, straightforward, altogether trustworthy man. He was above-board, outspoken, downright, blunt even, and bald, always calling a spade a spade.
"Grimes," the Vicar said, "I'm not quite sure that I like this." "Well, sir; no, sir. I was thinking myself, sir, that maybe you might take it unkind in the Marquis." "I think I shall write to him. Perhaps you wouldn't mind giving over for a day or two." Grimes yielded at once, and took his spade and measurements away, although Mr. Puddleham fretted a good deal. Mr.
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