Example Sentences
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The field-cornet himself handled one of the spades Hendrik the other, while Swartboy acted as shoveller, and filled the baskets as fast as Hans and Totty, assisted by Trüey and little Jan, could empty them.
From Popular Adventure Tales by Reid, Mayne
The door opened and a big fellow, another snow shoveller, came in hurriedly, letting in a burst of flying snow that sizzled on the hot stove.
From The Black Creek Stopping-House by McClung, Nellie L.
Although the beak is thus very inferior as a sifter to that of a shoveller, yet this bird, as every one knows, constantly uses it for this purpose.
From The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition by Darwin, Charles
She saw him rejoin his companion engineer near where lay the shoveller with the covered face, and the thought of the terrible accident depressed her.
From The Daughter of a Magnate by Spearman, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton)
The shoveller ducks are there, too fishing up with broad, flat beaks little crabs and such creatures as are in the mud, straining out mud and water, but swallowing the rest.
From Stories of California by Sexton, Ella M.
