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He admitted to the Committee that he had not been aware of many of the faults which the investigators had spaded up at Lockland, that "we weren't doing a job in some respects."

From Time Magazine Archive

I was spading up a place for a garden in front of The Dump, and I’m not lying, this was hard work, since no one had spaded up this ground since forever.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt

By mid-afternoon I had spaded quite a sizable garden plot.

From Neighbours by Stead, Robert J. C.

He had spaded but a minute when Mary saw him run past the window, leap the fence, and go hurrying down the path to the river.

From At the Foot of the Rainbow by Stratton-Porter, Gene

She found her sister very tired, but, proudly anxious to show a little spot, perhaps six feet; square, which she had spaded up with intervals of rest.

From Hillsboro People by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield