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Meanings of take the shovel in English

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Usage of take the shovel in English
1
Sometimes he'd get angry and take the shovel and throw hot ashes on the slaves.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
2
He had to throw it away and take the shovel handle against his bare skin.
Harrigan
3
Now if thou art strong after thy rest, do not lose time; take the shovel and dig.
Folk Tales from the Russian
4
The boys had to take the shovel and the hoe and keep the snow raked away from around the door.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
5
Now take the shovel, or I will lock you in your room with a hundred potatoes to peel and none to eat.
Artemis Fowl: the opal deception
6
He would have to take the shovel and clean them out in the morning and make sure that no unburnt bones were left.
Native son
7
He wanted to lunge at the man and take the shovel from him, lam him across the head with it and bolt from the basement.
Native son
8
I took the shovel, and crawled out on my hands and knees.
Men, Women, and Ghosts
9
Go ahead; the work shall not stop if it takes the shovel shop.
The Story of the First Trans-Continental Railroad / Its Projecto...
10
Opal took the shovel, resting the blade on the dry earth.
Artemis Fowl: the opal deception
11
When her pace slowed he dropped into the hole and took the shovel.
Alas, Babylon
12
Then Wesley takes the shovel and pries open the lid.
Burning bright
13
When he found nothing that way he took the shovel and started to dig.
The hangman's daughter
14
Then took the shovel and went on filling the hole as if nothing had happened.
Silence of the grave
15
Fauchelevent took the shovel, and Jean Valjean the pick-axe, and together they buried the empty coffin.
Les Misérables
16
Silently, Bill took the shovel from my hands.
Dead until dark
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