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1 In the garden, and on the farm, they work with spades , rakes, and hoes.
2 At last they stopped, and the men set to work with spades and axes.
3 They work with spades and saws, picks, barrows.
4 In one somewhat elevated position a number of men were set to work with spades , picks, and shovels, to throw up an earthwork.
5 Everyone sets to work with spades , hefting snow into the "flubber" - a rubber container the size of a small swimming pool.
6 In one hour the major had traced this lines with accuracy; and he had six or eight men at work with spades , digging the trench.
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