A machine for excavating

Usage examples of shovel.

I started to laugh, but the bartender shouted to another young man shoveling quarters into a nearby slot.

Not so much because he de-sired order, for Brine believed chaos to be the way of the world, but because he did not wish to make life difficult for his cleaning lady, who came in once a week to dust and shovel ashes from the fire-places.

A shovel, with damp-looking humus still on its blade, leaned against the stone.

Then Dallas would shovel the opened oysters onto picnic tables covered with newspapers and the perfume of those washed-down mollusks gave off a silvery, slightly metallic musk of a rained-on acre of spartina.

Klyucharyov returns to the overground armed with the things he needs: a pickaxe, a crowbar, a shovel, some candles.

Thure looked curiously and excitedly around him at the various groups of miners hard at work with their picks or shovels or pans or other washing machines.

This Plater began to shovel overboard, working with furious energy, as though combating a hated enemy.

Io, George Munster flowed gradually to the shovel, extended a pseudopodium, seized the shovel, and with it managed to dig a symbolic amount of soil.

Paraetonium to Siwa to here, hundreds of kilometers beyond human thought or action, half a mile down, where the gigantic claw diggers had ceased their abrading, the two of us with simple pick and shovel, standing on the last thin layer of compacted dirt and rock that roofed whatever great shadowy structure lay beneath us, a shadow picked up by the most advanced deep-resonance-response readings, verified on-site by proton free-precession magnetometry and ground-penetrating radar brought in from the Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the United States.

The barrier was manned by a dozen field hands armed with staffs sharpened to a point, a single metal-tipped spear, shovels, and scythes.

Every adult in camp, not just the soldiers had some kind of weapon in hand, shovels, picks, pitchforks, sharpened stakes, and many a makeshift club.

When I got outside, however, Steve was busy shovelling sand while Philip stood watching.

Only Tom Silva owned a good old-fashioned bubba truck complete with shovel and gun rack.

He gave her a presumably affectionate skite on the Mount of the Moon and began shoveling eggs and bacon on his plate.

He shoveled more squirmers into his mouth, then clamped his lips shut and began using one of his thick, blunt fingers to poke in the squirmer parts that were still sticking out.