Word: spading
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...honors," consisting of a mirror, cradle, spurs, jaw-bone, spade, pillow, spoon, crank and knife, were presented to the Juniors of Dartmouth in Precinct Hall last Tuesday evening...
...black opening I strained eye and ear to catch some sign of what Colney was doing. All was dark and silent, however; and I was just heaving a sigh of relief as we rose to the top of the opening, when, quick as a serpent's tongue, a spade-handle, with a long knife lashed to the end, darted out of the shadow, and made a thrust at the rope where it was already worn almost through...
...have a distinctly moral purpose," this lady began, "in everything I say, although I always speak out plain and 'call a spade a spade...
...procession appeared, at the head of which was a drum-major, or grand-marshal, with a huge bearskin cap and baton, followed by two students; the elegist, with his Oxford cap and black gown, and brows and cheeks cropped so as to appear as if wearing huge goggles; four spade-bearers, six pall-bearers, with a six-foot coffin on their shoulders. They looked poverty-stricken: their hats, with rims torn off or turned in, bore the figures '63 in front; their apparel being such as is suited to the tearing football fight, and their left legs having crape...
Digging at once with a pen and a spade...