spadeful
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There’s “nary a spadeful of dirt dug for a major development in Arlington that doesn’t have Art Walsh’s imprint on it,” The Washington Post wrote in 1982.
From Washington Post • Jun. 28, 2022
Were we in a fool’s paradise, an epoch of superb whisky that would end when the last spadeful of Scottish peat is dug up and flung into the furnaces?
From Slate • Apr. 11, 2013
They borrowed a shovel from one of the nearby houses and hit metal with the first spadeful of dirt.
From Salon • Jan. 27, 2013
Of a total of 39 projects, not a spadeful of earth has been broken.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Pasha's reply was to throw a spadeful of earth on the chest.
From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Ashe, Elizabeth
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