"There was no one else around to do all the shoveling.

They all looked at one another for a frozen moment, then Alan turned back to his shoveling.

Until the 1950s, manual shoveling employed large numbers of workers.

The shoveling is grueling and dangerous, undertaken for no more than an hour at a time.

Still, some have grown tired of the constant shoveling and shivering.

I survey an adequate shoveling of the stoop and sidewalk.

At Heckler's, the fleas did the shoveling, and a lot more.

He spotted the corporals who had helped with the shoveling, and they introduced him to some others.

I shake my head at them in disbelief and go back to my shoveling.

Another drawback: They root around, shoveling their noses into and under anything that may hold food.

Taking a break from her shoveling, Sarah said the igloos had begun to get almost too much publicity.

He shakes his head at the grave diggers' eager shoveling.

Obviously, snow shoveling is not dangerous to everyone.

"Snow shoveling is the single most stressful activity that a sedentary American does.

Abraham Lincoln said that running the country was like shoveling fleas across a doorway.

If you'll rake stuff out of the corners, I'll do the shoveling."

There were many Diggers, big shoveling and excavating machines to get up the ore.

Dr. Beezly paused in his shoveling and gazed down at her.

After ten minutes of cold sandy shoveling, the tent was buried except for a person-sized opening.

He was taken to a nearby farm where he watched a group of people shoveling away grain to reveal 30 to 40 guns.

I paused to enjoy that sight while I was resting from all the shoveling."

He went back to his shoveling.

Jack began by shoveling some bark mulch into a wheelbarrow so he could take it over to spread beneath a tree.

Battles, said the army, were Caesar's rewards for all that shoveling, building, logging and slogging.

This concept will solve the logistical problem of shoveling snow from an "upper deck" seating area.

A shovel has yet to break ground for anything else.

I did not ask to buy a shovel at all.

You can always tell whether someone's used to a shovel.

You'd always have to hit me over the head with a shovel first, to get my attention.

I sent David back to the house for a shovel.

I will never picture him with shovel in hand again.

Then she began to shovel the earth on top of him.

"The big boy looks like he could do a hard day's work with a shovel".

"I was going to hit you over the head with this shovel."

But before you get out the shovel there are a few things to consider.

She knew I could hold a shovel and did not sit around.

When it was time to move the shovel he took care of that as well.

She passed the shovel on and went to stand by her mother.

"So, for someone who has a bad back, a power shovel can be a real help."

I never seen any shovel anywhere around his place since.

It is usually about the same size as a shovel.

He let go of the shovel and it fell to the floor.

What's wrong with a strong body, a pick and a shovel?

It would have taken a pick and shovel to get me out.

One man held what looked like the handle from a shovel.

I looked for a while, then picked up the shovel.

A shovel lay on the ground in front of him.

Bring them back here, along with a couple of shovels.

Outside a man was using a shovel to clear a path to the door.

Having no shovel all he could do was clear the snow by hand.

But they will have to be shovelled over the side.

They shoveled until it was almost too dark to see.

I have a right to know how much you're shoveling under the table, because it's my money.

Snow was in the way and had to be shoveled.

We turned on the water and shoveled in the dirt.

Time to move, then, before people came outside and started shoveling off the walks.

Jennifer told him we had shoveled out a space, too.

This they shovelled out, and then built a fresh fire.

One person has died of a heart attack while shoveling snow.

They sat on the ground and shoveled the food into their mouths.

Community leaders shoveled their way to the end of the bus line to take her to school.

It turned out to be a man shovelling sand off the road.

I only stopped shoveling when the bag became too heavy.

We crawled out a window and shoveled our way in a second time.

He kept shoveling them into his mouth, wanting her to do all the talking.

They climbed to the top and tried shoveling the snow away.

He had shoveled his driveway four times since Sunday morning.

All day long, he had been shovelling snow in the streets.

He was still shoveling snow off of his roof at 103.

Just what called to us as we shoveled our way out of yet another Maine winter.

"I'm shoveling snow to get my car out, and I end up getting 911."

They actually make shoveling easier because less bending is involved.

"He must think we still have people down here shovelling coal," one said.

He shoveled the ball to second, smooth as you please.

The two men were busy for a long while, shoveling away the sand.