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They were shovelling away the snow just in front of my door.
THE CHILD OF PLEASUREGABRIELE D'ANNUNZIOIt is all an inspiration; while hewing out chunks of ice and shovelling them away is the acute pleasure of movement, exercise.
THE HOME OF THE BLIZZARDDOUGLAS MAWSONHe would work all night, dislodging stones and shovelling earth, if at the end there was a chance of a meal of rabbits.
LIVES OF THE FUR FOLKM. D. HAVILANDWhen the heap bid fair to block her in altogether, she backed awkwardly, shovelling it out as she came.
LIVES OF THE FUR FOLKM. D. HAVILANDThey put him shovelling coke, and he got along all right till he finished the dump he was working on.
INTO THE JAWS OF DEATHJACK O'BRIENThere was a vast amount of shovelling to do, and that took time.
THE CASSOWARYSTANLEY WATERLOOFrom time to time the sound of the shovelling of coal arose from the engine-room.
ATLANTISGERHART HAUPTMANNHe was off up on Eldorado somewhere, shovelling dirt into a sluice-box for ten dollars a day.
THE TRAIL OF '98ROBERT W. SERVICEI am even glad that it is covered with snow, and that its sole inhabitants are a few gardeners shovelling the ice aside.
EMPIRES AND EMPERORS OF RUSSIA, CHINA, KOREA, AND JAPANPTER VAYFor there really was a line, though he admitted it might be difficult to see, considering all that he was shovelling upon her.
ELIZABETH'S CAMPAIGNMRS. HUMPHREY WARD