1.
He has made it very clear that he doesn’t care for convenient little compromises and political deals, believing absolutely that a spade should be called a shovel
2.
absolutely that a spade should be called a shovel
3.
His spade struck something solid and, expecting another tree root, he
4.
Kev had climbed out of the hole and was sitting on a rock, spade beside him, ready to watch the entertainment
5.
had both the low spade and the best hand
6.
pressure of the spade
7.
Accordingly, I dug up a piece of ground as well as I could with my wooden spade, and dividing it into two parts, I sowed my grain; but as I was sowing, it casually occurred to my thoughts that I would not sow it all at first, because I did not know when was the proper time for it, so I sowed about two-thirds of the seed, leaving about a handful of each
8.
The same thing may be said of turnips, carrots, cabbages ; things which were formerly never raised but by the spade, but which are now commonly raised by the plough
9.
Dingles special spade
10.
“Darn a special spade and Mr
11.
Many sorts of vegetable food, besides, which in the rude state of agriculture are confined to the kitchen-garden, and raised only by the spade, come, in its improved state, to be introduced into common fields, and to be raised by the plough ; such as turnips, carrots, cabbages, etc
12.
Her hands were covered in dirt and she held a spade in one hand
13.
A sort of wooden spade was their principal instrument of agriculture
14.
soil, he dug in his spade thinking he would have to return indoors
15.
This will consist of your small pack, rifle and bayonet around 250 rounds of ammunition, 4grenades, a spade, empty sandbags, wire cutters, flares and anything else that you may need
16.
On the back of my small pack I had a rolled up ground sheet and a spade attached to it and then fixed onto the flap I had a buffed up triangle of tin
17.
The difficulty was in trying to prevent the sides from collapsing, constantly patting all around with his spade, but done with too much force risked the structural integrity
18.
Then each chaplain seized a spade and filled the grave
19.
There was a joke or rumour of a constable who crept up to his mate doing number two, and proceeded to catch the excrement with a spade
20.
Call a spade a spade, that's what me old dad used ter say
21.
Henry was now running around his brother’s exposed head, holding the small spade he’d used to bury him like a spear, jabbing at the air, whooping war chants
22.
He stopped, bending over to catch his breath, hands on knees, spade forgotten on the sand
23.
As he fell, Henry hit his temple on the sharp edge of the spade, slicing a long piece of flesh from his scalp
24.
I am not paid by any religious organisation or church; therefore I can call a spade a spade
25.
jellyfish that had washed up on a beach waiting for inevitable slap of a child’s spade
26.
Bob Spade had parked his Fiat 500 around the corner out of
27.
Bob Spade, the leader of our UFO unit, is missing also
28.
I had the spade in my hand
29.
I left the house and wrapped Bald Headed Man and the spade in the blanket
30.
As I threw the spade in, it moved the blanket and I saw his face
31.
I got the spade out of the boot and starting digging a grave
32.
I used my hands to drag all the soil in because I’d buried the spade with him
33.
“And! There was this spade
34.
There was a spade in the garden
35.
“So, you think,” Zippo cracked open his lighter, “that this boy battered Paul, and this is Paul mind, to death, with a spade he found in his garden and then what? Drove him up onto the moors and buried him without so much as pausing?”
36.
Carlisle was standing behind me, holding a spade
37.
“Murdered his ass with a spade
38.
And if life wasn’t about report cards? If it was about those last few seconds, staring at the ceiling of the dirty pub toilets, watching the naked bulb swing as Carlisle chucked the spade aside and climbed over Sally’s body, when you take stock of your own life and you ask yourself: was it worth it? I’d had twenty years of security, friends, fun and then gone out in the end in a blaze of glory
39.
To check we were alright (not sure what she would have done if she’d walked in and seen Carlisle beating us both with a spade) she went out to the toilets
40.
Jan and John took a bucket and spade to play with in the
41.
Every time you move a single spade of dirt, you are affecting the entire planet
42.
Even a spade is a simple machine, thought of by somebody, designed by somebody
43.
The Genie began to dig; the spade was hurting the ground and displacing it in slices to the side until a crack was done to receive the unexpected coffin
44.
spade towards the machines
45.
The only thing we found in the car of interest was a spade in the boot
46.
But with the threat of the heavy snow we’ve been expecting, just about everyone driving around here is carrying a shovel or spade in their boot
47.
Then she thought it was possibly a rake or a spade
48.
We found a spade buried inside the cave that has traces of blood on it, and I’m pretty sure that was the weapon used to bash the back of his head in
49.
‘Yeah, what was it now…he had a sort of holdall thing he took from the boot, yeah…Oh and a spade! He had a spade in the back of his Merc sportscar
50.
Hey, and guess what? He had a holdall and a spade in his car
51.
There was a spade on the floor next to the tree
52.
‘Guess what he transferred from his Merc to the hire car when it turned up? A holdall and a spade
53.
shotgun in one hand, a long-handled spade in the other, and his hands were
54.
Ainsley whacked Tennant with a spade, and then shot him with his own gun
55.
It was buried over nine inches deep in the trunk of a tree after passing through the head of a spade and the poor man himself
56.
The man at the garage said he had his overcoat, a spade and a bag, nothing else
57.
Murray was up and about the next day quite early and was in the workshop making a number of small steel boxes to hold the explosives, filling each box with a small amount of explosive and a detonator he then put each box in a plastic freezer bag leaving the wire from the detonator dangling, he then sealed the bags with an epoxy glue, he’d completed twenty of these deadly little parcels before he decided to place them on the beach, with a small spade he dug them in above the waterline, using a pattern that seemed random, but nothing Murray did was random, every charge that was laid was covered by a camera, when he’d finished, all that could be seen were twenty lengths of yellow wire belonging to the detonators sticking from the sand, returning to the workshop he made up another twenty little boxes and following the same procedure as before Murray buried them in the scrub working back from the road, where they’d be covered by a camera when he’d finished the only trace that could be seen were the knee high yellow wires, there was still two kilo’s of the C4 left, now the tedious work began, running wires from the house to each detonator wire, numbering them and connecting them to the keyboard in the computer room, Murray next worked on the mini cam’s he’d placed around the property running these wires back to the key board numbering and tagging them, next came the sensor switches for the camera’s, each camera had infra red capability, a motion sensor and a heat sensor that not only turned the camera’s on but also switched on the red warning lights in the house, Murray was determined that no-one was going to sneak up on him and Shirl, now came the hard yakka, all of these cables had to be hidden so Murray dug out and refilled a couple of kilometres of narrow thirty centimetre trenches to hold the wires, after a month these trenches would be overgrown but for the present he raked and spread leaves and debris to hide the recent excavations
58.
The skin was badly wrinkled on the face, which was hollow and sunk in at the mouth due to the lack of any teeth, and the bony hands that were clutching a small spade
59.
The old man shifted his weight on the spade and interrupted with a curious tone, “Don’t believe I caught your name, son
60.
He called a spade a spade
61.
The blade of his spade overturned an
62.
He put aside the spade, his
63.
’ He thrust the spade of his hand forward
64.
’ Ariel leaned against the spade at the corner of the veggie patch
65.
Also, we should call a spade a spade and be ready to tell the Chinese to stop harboring the Vietminh, on pain of direct military actions against them
66.
A spade accidentally dropped, greens slipped in or a small cave-in would be all it took to destroy their plans
67.
At the same store, he bought a small spade
68.
Max hid in the shadows, watching and waiting for Star to arrive with lightproof sheet, pegs, lantern and folding spade
69.
‘What do you call a man with a spade in his mouth? Doug,’ he rattles on
70.
‘What do you call a man with no spade in his mouth? Douglas
71.
She removes a spade, then counts paces to the edge of the clearing
72.
She jumps on the spade with all her weight to split the frozen earth
73.
Digging the hole is harder than Dolly anticipated, but she sticks with it, until the spade hits a buried coffee can
74.
Everybody was wearing strictly shirts and moccasins or shoes, making Closse laugh silently at the futility of the priests’ rantings against that practice: Father Pijart was not the one who had to swing day-long an axe or a spade in the Sun of a hot, sticky day
75.
He beat them with his spade
76.
He had won it as a result of a winning poker hand – a jack-high spade straight flush – at the old Barbary Coast tavern in downtown Wilmington
77.
David gently placed the spade on the rear-seat floorboard
78.
He grabbed the spade and was amazed at how fast he was able to create a fourteen-inch gap under the privacy wall
79.
“I do pay you,” Spartan pointed out wearily, “and I have no more interest in your garden spade
80.
them with the spade
81.
o’ lantern with the emblem of a spade, like the one that you
82.
The only tool necessary is a small garden spade
83.
To do the investigative spade work I called once more on my faithful friend and
84.
limbs worked the spade so skilfully that he had obviously learned how to dig somewhere,
85.
a spade a spade, he lacked his father’s strength and honesty
86.
Which would’ve been fine if the damned tree spade on the Bobcat hadn’t blown a valve
87.
putting the spade down, he wiped from his face
88.
Barry threw a spade at him
89.
Barry retrieved the spade
90.
David picked up the spade and held it in his bloodied hand
91.
He stuck the spade in the ground and struggled to lift the soil
92.
David now had two hands on the spade
93.
He picked up the spade and handed David his rifle
94.
The miller prodded it with a spade
95.
The boys found a spade and he used it as a crutch
96.
Her body lay in a heap in the grass with a spade in her gloved hand and a plant with its root ball exposed, as though she were about to plant it before she died, and her hand had clutched it and stiffened
97.
And so, pared down, we fit in here quite nicely, and after a day or two conceded to the suavities of life, such as the tacking up in appropriate places of muslin curtains and the tying of them with bows, I intend to buy a spade and a watering-pot and see what I can do with the garden
98.
It really is the only place, for I don't see how Johanna and I, gifted and resourceful as we undoubtedly are, can make terraces with no tools but a spade and a watering-pot; but it will do away with our only path, and it does seem necessary to have a path up to one's front door
99.
You mustn't suppose me cynical in calling it a catastrophe--perhaps I mean it only in its harmless sense of _dénouement_; and if I don't I can't see that it is cynical to recognize a spade when you see it as certainly a spade
100.
But here one could not dream; here was life, vigorous, stinging, blustering life; and standing on the top of the dune holding my hat on with both hands, banged and battered by the salt wind, my clothes flapping and straining like a flag in a gale on a swaying flagstaff, the weight of a generation was blown off my shoulders, and I was seized by a craving as unsuitable as it was terrific to run and fetch a spade and a bucket, and dig and dig till it was too dark to dig any longer, and then go indoors tired and joyful and have periwinkles or shrimps for tea
1.
spaded out by those now leaving?
2.
With this the farmer spaded the earth to bury the conversation
3.
But Jim was cold as spaded earth
1.
Already there was a fair bit of activity in the streets – people wandering around in what she could only assume was special holiday attire for men of brightly coloured shorts and tops, some women in absurdly brief skirts, others in long muslin affairs that wouldn’t look out of place on Errd, most of them carrying bags of towels and dragging small noisy children laden with buckets and spades
2.
They loaded their truck with ladders, spades and planks and turned off the mixer
3.
Except for the birds, the only sound was the thud of the spades slicing the earth and the dull splat of the soil as it was heaped on the side
4.
“The fucking four of spades
5.
The queen of spades
6.
Whilst Lemoss drank the soup the others fetched spades and forks, trowels and various other things which seemed to all fit neatly into his cart
7.
Spades, garden forks, picks and shovels
8.
“Where’s Johnny got to I hope he hasn’t gone off to stuff his face?” I didn’t know where he was but a short time later he came back carrying a couple of GS spades which he through to us saying
9.
These were called head spades, boarding knives, blubber pikes,
10.
Shock, Mother Nature’s anesthetic had provided Herminia temporary insulation from the full impact of pain, but a short while later it did hit, and in spades too
11.
She had it in spades
12.
This came back to haunt Mike in spades in February 2006 when state troopers from Troop K in Colchester broke through his locked condo door in the middle of the night and assaulted him without cause
13.
"Spades," he said solemnly, and scribbled the word down
14.
"Come on! You take the spades, Theo
15.
But she'd over-reacted in spades
16.
One group was the ace of hearts, and another came by that read the king of spades
17.
“What about this?” He dropped the spades one by one: eight, nine, ten, Jack, and a red Joker
18.
So, loaded up with spades, axes and pitchforks followed Sam and Pierre and the BBC men they chopped and slashed at the thick, choking brambles cutting a pathway into the centre of the wood
19.
There‘s a classic psychology experiment where mixed in a normal pack of playing cards is a red six of spades
20.
The red six of spades is shown to a group of people along with other normal playing cards
21.
Many people cannot see a red six of spades the first few passes through the cards; some can never see it as a red six of spades, even when holding it in their hands!
22.
In this case, we start with a belief that a red six of spades doesn‘t exist, so it‘s difficult to see it for what it actually is; and for some with very strong and controlling belief systems, it‘s virtually impossible
23.
" Her opinion of the state was conveyed in spades on her face
24.
how do you say this? In Spades!”
25.
The sealant seemed to move rapidly away from the heat and soon with the help of the spades, an opening was clearly visible
26.
Boy, was I happy! I had always given my all to my previous employers, and now it paid off in spades!
27.
She saw the queen of diamonds with her throat wounded by the steel of the jack of spades, and she deduced that Fernanda was trying to get her husband back home by means of the discredited method of sticking pins into his picture but that she had brought on an internal tumor because of her clumsy knowledge of the black arts
28.
He had the typical sense of humor that most of the desert dwellers possessed, in spades
29.
Any way you look at it, the corporatists want to be there in spades to protect world oil reserves and other natural resources
30.
And that is just what you said, confidence! It's one of the most important character traits a person can develop, and I think you've got it, in spades
31.
"The Ace of Spades reversed, that's the violence
32.
Paired with the Jack of Spades reversed--I get the
33.
As his eyes focus he discovers the 3 of spades staring him in the face
34.
As he collects and counts, he remembers what the 3 of spades means
35.
the Ace of spades
36.
There were four main suits; hearts, clubs, diamonds and spades,” said Krystal
37.
He found the latter busy with Henri Bruage cutting down the trees that still cluttered his lot, while his wife Claudette and three of the teenage girls they had escorted to Ville-Marie were digging and turning over the top soil of a two-acre surface with spades
38.
Next it was the five of spades, representing Tabitha’s
39.
corners marking the Ace of Spades, mixed with a green hat that
40.
in-the-Box symbolizing the original ace and jack of spades
41.
“Money Man Made of the Jack and Ace of Spades,” with his dog
42.
the Money Show with little Jeophries, the ace and jack of spades,
43.
At the two stainless steel tables in view, a number of inmates were busy playing a card game – most likely, Spades
44.
black as the ace of spades
45.
“How many times have you seen or heard of a killer leaving a clue or a note that a number of killings have been committed by the same person? This could be a calling card, in one case literally the Ace of Spades, or an article such as a ribbon tied to the victims, or even more obviously a note or something scrawled on a wall in the victim’s blood! There have been no calling cards, items or any text left to suggest that this is the same killer
46.
Justification for ridding society of them, on the other hand, we do have, in spades
47.
section of the table above the suit of spades labeled „high
48.
to reveal an ace of spades
49.
She had money in spades, what she was missing was love in her life and a long-term companion
50.
William pointed to the men with spades
51.
It is a bit tedious, but the research will pay off in spades
52.
“ Marcus has repaid you in spades
53.
" Marcus has repaid you in tit-for-tat spades
54.
“You remember where you threw the spades?” cut in Mary
55.
Jason Spades, the CEO
56.
He had them in spades
57.
Allen “Dusty Leaves” was just supposed to play reruns of the Money Show with little Jeophries, the ace and jack of spades, and of course the money man himself, better known as “The Hawk” to the listening public
58.
Next it was the five of spades, representing Tabitha’s position on the table
59.
She's a girl, so there are height and weight issues, but what she lacks in technique, she makes up in spades with her passion
60.
If that community had really had their wits about them when her sons started to go around town heralding her fame, they should have given that ‘fame’ to her… in spades
61.
You do it by reflexively feeding back whatever you receive… in spades
62.
If all humans were courageous enough to be positive, and always give more back than they receive… then nobody would ever think of doing anything negative to anyone else: because they would know that they would get that negativity back in their faces in spades… instantly… in spades
63.
There's a classic psychology experiment18 where this red six of spades, along with
64.
cards; some can never see it as a red six of spades, even when holding it in their hands
65.
In this case, we start with a belief that a red six of spades doesn't exist, so it's
66.
“I can prove in spades that none of what these two are saying is even remotely close to the truth, and I’m not kidding anymore,” this caught all of them by surprise
67.
He wasn’t sure what his type was, but soft and feminine were two key characteristics that this female pirate lacked in spades
68.
Awareness shot through me in spades as Colt’s hands came down to securely fasten on my hips
69.
I think we’re looking at that concept in spades before us right now
70.
He was of royal birth, in spades, so to speak
71.
Turned out it was the ace of spades
72.
They’d messed up in royal spades
73.
Ace of Spades – Motorhead
74.
They were all aces of spades
75.
It will pay off in spades when you adopt this attitude
76.
Here tourists can search for opal by using shovels and spades
77.
QQ, and the flop is J-7-3 with twо spades
78.
The sailors ran the ship into a creek, where ten slaves landed, carrying spades
79.
this economy they are being both of these in spades
80.
What distinguishes me from Johnson is that I have the will in spades
81.
The tower contained implements, such as spades, rakes, watering-pots, hung against the wall; this was all the furniture
82.
—Said the ace of spades was walking up the stairs
83.
—The ace of spades! Mr Bloom said
84.
They were dabbling in the sand with their spades and buckets, building castles as children do, or playing with their big coloured ball, happy as the day was long
85.
nothing in it but some old rusty played-out hoes and spades and picks and a crippled plow
86.
too high for my register even transposed and he was married at the time to May Goulding but then hed say or do something to knock the good out of it hes a widower now I wonder what sort is his son he says hes an author and going to be a university professor of Italian and Im to take lessons what is he driving at now showing him my photo its not good of me I ought to have got it taken in drapery that never looks out of fashion still I look young in it I wonder he didnt make him a present of it altogether and me too after all why not I saw him driving down to the Kingsbridge station with his father and mother I was in mourning thats 11 years ago now yes hed be 11 though what was the good in going into mourning for what was neither one thing nor the other the first cry was enough for me I heard the deathwatch too ticking in the wall of course he insisted hed go into mourning for the cat I suppose hes a man now by this time he was an innocent boy then and a darling little fellow in his lord Fauntleroy suit and curly hair like a prince on the stage when I saw him at Mat Dillons he liked me too I remember they all do wait by God yes wait yes hold on he was on the cards this morning when I laid out the deck union with a young stranger neither dark nor fair you met before I thought it meant him but hes no chicken nor a stranger either besides my face was turned the other way what was the 7th card after that the 10 of spades for a journey by land then there was a letter on its way and scandals too the 3 queens and the 8 of diamonds for a rise in society yes wait it all came out and 2 red 8s for new garments look at that and didnt I dream something too yes there was something about poetry in it I hope he hasnt long greasy hair hanging into his eyes or standing up like a red Indian what do they go about like that for only getting themselves and their poetry laughed at I always liked poetry when I was a girl first I thought he was a poet like lord Byron and not an ounce of it in his composition I thought he was quite different I wonder is he too young hes about wait 88 I was married 88 Milly is 15 yesterday 89 what age was he then at Dillons 5 or 6 about 88 I suppose hes 20 or more Im not too old for him if hes 23 or 24 I hope hes not that stuckup university student sort no otherwise he wouldnt go sitting down in the old kitchen with him taking Eppss cocoa and talking of course he pretended to understand it all probably he told him he was out of Trinity college hes very young to be a professor I hope hes not a professor like Goodwin was he was a potent professor of John Jameson they all write about some woman in their poetry well I suppose he wont find many like me where softly sighs of love the light guitar where poetry is in the air the blue sea and the moon shining so beautifully coming back on the nightboat from Tarifa the lighthouse at Europa point the guitar that fellow played was so expressive will I ever go back there again all new faces two glancing eyes a lattice hid Ill sing that for him theyre my eyes if hes anything of a poet two eyes as darkly bright as loves own star arent those beautiful words as loves young star itll be a change the Lord knows to have an intelligent person to talk to about yourself not always listening to him and Billy Prescotts ad and Keyess ad and Tom the Devils ad then if anything goes wrong in their business we have to suffer Im sure hes very distinguished Id like to meet a man like that God not those other ruck besides hes young those fine young men I could see down in Margate strand bathingplace from the side of the rock standing up in the sun naked like a God or something and then plunging into the sea with them why arent all men like that thered be
87.
She met Sam and the others coming back, their spades over their shoulders, their boots thick with muck
88.
Sam would stand out, because of his height, among these stunted serfs hunched over their spades
89.
But they stand a while, leaning on their spades and only nodding unsmilingly as the car- drivers go through, waving their thanks
90.
“He made a few million at poker by the time he was twenty-three, then, one dark night, the LVMPD found him unconscious in an alley with ten broken fingers and the ace of spades in his shirt breast pocket
91.
On one of the steps past the third floor he saw a playing card, the queen of spades, and he did not like that, but he could not understand why, it was probably some silly superstition
92.
They had the same split trails, however, and there were spades at the end of each leg, dug into solid earth
1.
The last thing Richard Braling saw was the spading arms of the Braling Economy Casket reaching up and pulling the hole in after it
2.
At the graveyard, as they turned in, two men were already spading out the earth
