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He has made it very clear that he doesn’t care for convenient little compromises and political deals, believing absolutely that a spade should be called a shovel
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absolutely that a spade should be called a shovel
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His spade struck something solid and, expecting another tree root, he
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Kev had climbed out of the hole and was sitting on a rock, spade beside him, ready to watch the entertainment
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had both the low spade and the best hand
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pressure of the spade
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Accordingly, I dug up a piece of ground as well as I could with my wooden spade, and dividing it into two parts, I sowed my grain; but as I was sowing, it casually occurred to my thoughts that I would not sow it all at first, because I did not know when was the proper time for it, so I sowed about two-thirds of the seed, leaving about a handful of each
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The same thing may be said of turnips, carrots, cabbages ; things which were formerly never raised but by the spade, but which are now commonly raised by the plough
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Dingles special spade
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“Darn a special spade and Mr
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Many sorts of vegetable food, besides, which in the rude state of agriculture are confined to the kitchen-garden, and raised only by the spade, come, in its improved state, to be introduced into common fields, and to be raised by the plough ; such as turnips, carrots, cabbages, etc
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Her hands were covered in dirt and she held a spade in one hand
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A sort of wooden spade was their principal instrument of agriculture
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soil, he dug in his spade thinking he would have to return indoors
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This will consist of your small pack, rifle and bayonet around 250 rounds of ammunition, 4grenades, a spade, empty sandbags, wire cutters, flares and anything else that you may need
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On the back of my small pack I had a rolled up ground sheet and a spade attached to it and then fixed onto the flap I had a buffed up triangle of tin
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The difficulty was in trying to prevent the sides from collapsing, constantly patting all around with his spade, but done with too much force risked the structural integrity
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Then each chaplain seized a spade and filled the grave
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There was a joke or rumour of a constable who crept up to his mate doing number two, and proceeded to catch the excrement with a spade
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Call a spade a spade, that's what me old dad used ter say
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Henry was now running around his brother’s exposed head, holding the small spade he’d used to bury him like a spear, jabbing at the air, whooping war chants
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He stopped, bending over to catch his breath, hands on knees, spade forgotten on the sand
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As he fell, Henry hit his temple on the sharp edge of the spade, slicing a long piece of flesh from his scalp
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I am not paid by any religious organisation or church; therefore I can call a spade a spade
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jellyfish that had washed up on a beach waiting for inevitable slap of a child’s spade
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Bob Spade had parked his Fiat 500 around the corner out of
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Bob Spade, the leader of our UFO unit, is missing also
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I had the spade in my hand
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I left the house and wrapped Bald Headed Man and the spade in the blanket
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As I threw the spade in, it moved the blanket and I saw his face
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I got the spade out of the boot and starting digging a grave
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I used my hands to drag all the soil in because I’d buried the spade with him
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“And! There was this spade
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There was a spade in the garden
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“So, you think,” Zippo cracked open his lighter, “that this boy battered Paul, and this is Paul mind, to death, with a spade he found in his garden and then what? Drove him up onto the moors and buried him without so much as pausing?”
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Carlisle was standing behind me, holding a spade
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“Murdered his ass with a spade
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And if life wasn’t about report cards? If it was about those last few seconds, staring at the ceiling of the dirty pub toilets, watching the naked bulb swing as Carlisle chucked the spade aside and climbed over Sally’s body, when you take stock of your own life and you ask yourself: was it worth it? I’d had twenty years of security, friends, fun and then gone out in the end in a blaze of glory
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To check we were alright (not sure what she would have done if she’d walked in and seen Carlisle beating us both with a spade) she went out to the toilets
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Jan and John took a bucket and spade to play with in the
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Every time you move a single spade of dirt, you are affecting the entire planet
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Even a spade is a simple machine, thought of by somebody, designed by somebody
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The Genie began to dig; the spade was hurting the ground and displacing it in slices to the side until a crack was done to receive the unexpected coffin
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spade towards the machines
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The only thing we found in the car of interest was a spade in the boot
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But with the threat of the heavy snow we’ve been expecting, just about everyone driving around here is carrying a shovel or spade in their boot
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Then she thought it was possibly a rake or a spade
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We found a spade buried inside the cave that has traces of blood on it, and I’m pretty sure that was the weapon used to bash the back of his head in
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‘Yeah, what was it now…he had a sort of holdall thing he took from the boot, yeah…Oh and a spade! He had a spade in the back of his Merc sportscar
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Hey, and guess what? He had a holdall and a spade in his car
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There was a spade on the floor next to the tree
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‘Guess what he transferred from his Merc to the hire car when it turned up? A holdall and a spade
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shotgun in one hand, a long-handled spade in the other, and his hands were
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Ainsley whacked Tennant with a spade, and then shot him with his own gun
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It was buried over nine inches deep in the trunk of a tree after passing through the head of a spade and the poor man himself
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The man at the garage said he had his overcoat, a spade and a bag, nothing else
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Murray was up and about the next day quite early and was in the workshop making a number of small steel boxes to hold the explosives, filling each box with a small amount of explosive and a detonator he then put each box in a plastic freezer bag leaving the wire from the detonator dangling, he then sealed the bags with an epoxy glue, he’d completed twenty of these deadly little parcels before he decided to place them on the beach, with a small spade he dug them in above the waterline, using a pattern that seemed random, but nothing Murray did was random, every charge that was laid was covered by a camera, when he’d finished, all that could be seen were twenty lengths of yellow wire belonging to the detonators sticking from the sand, returning to the workshop he made up another twenty little boxes and following the same procedure as before Murray buried them in the scrub working back from the road, where they’d be covered by a camera when he’d finished the only trace that could be seen were the knee high yellow wires, there was still two kilo’s of the C4 left, now the tedious work began, running wires from the house to each detonator wire, numbering them and connecting them to the keyboard in the computer room, Murray next worked on the mini cam’s he’d placed around the property running these wires back to the key board numbering and tagging them, next came the sensor switches for the camera’s, each camera had infra red capability, a motion sensor and a heat sensor that not only turned the camera’s on but also switched on the red warning lights in the house, Murray was determined that no-one was going to sneak up on him and Shirl, now came the hard yakka, all of these cables had to be hidden so Murray dug out and refilled a couple of kilometres of narrow thirty centimetre trenches to hold the wires, after a month these trenches would be overgrown but for the present he raked and spread leaves and debris to hide the recent excavations
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The skin was badly wrinkled on the face, which was hollow and sunk in at the mouth due to the lack of any teeth, and the bony hands that were clutching a small spade
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The old man shifted his weight on the spade and interrupted with a curious tone, “Don’t believe I caught your name, son
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He called a spade a spade
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The blade of his spade overturned an
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He put aside the spade, his
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’ He thrust the spade of his hand forward
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’ Ariel leaned against the spade at the corner of the veggie patch
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Also, we should call a spade a spade and be ready to tell the Chinese to stop harboring the Vietminh, on pain of direct military actions against them
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A spade accidentally dropped, greens slipped in or a small cave-in would be all it took to destroy their plans
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At the same store, he bought a small spade
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Max hid in the shadows, watching and waiting for Star to arrive with lightproof sheet, pegs, lantern and folding spade
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‘What do you call a man with a spade in his mouth? Doug,’ he rattles on
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‘What do you call a man with no spade in his mouth? Douglas
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She removes a spade, then counts paces to the edge of the clearing
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She jumps on the spade with all her weight to split the frozen earth
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Digging the hole is harder than Dolly anticipated, but she sticks with it, until the spade hits a buried coffee can
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Everybody was wearing strictly shirts and moccasins or shoes, making Closse laugh silently at the futility of the priests’ rantings against that practice: Father Pijart was not the one who had to swing day-long an axe or a spade in the Sun of a hot, sticky day
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He beat them with his spade
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He had won it as a result of a winning poker hand – a jack-high spade straight flush – at the old Barbary Coast tavern in downtown Wilmington
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David gently placed the spade on the rear-seat floorboard
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He grabbed the spade and was amazed at how fast he was able to create a fourteen-inch gap under the privacy wall
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“I do pay you,” Spartan pointed out wearily, “and I have no more interest in your garden spade
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them with the spade
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o’ lantern with the emblem of a spade, like the one that you
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The only tool necessary is a small garden spade
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To do the investigative spade work I called once more on my faithful friend and
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limbs worked the spade so skilfully that he had obviously learned how to dig somewhere,
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a spade a spade, he lacked his father’s strength and honesty
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Which would’ve been fine if the damned tree spade on the Bobcat hadn’t blown a valve
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putting the spade down, he wiped from his face
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Barry threw a spade at him
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Barry retrieved the spade
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David picked up the spade and held it in his bloodied hand
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He stuck the spade in the ground and struggled to lift the soil
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David now had two hands on the spade
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He picked up the spade and handed David his rifle
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The miller prodded it with a spade
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The boys found a spade and he used it as a crutch
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Her body lay in a heap in the grass with a spade in her gloved hand and a plant with its root ball exposed, as though she were about to plant it before she died, and her hand had clutched it and stiffened
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And so, pared down, we fit in here quite nicely, and after a day or two conceded to the suavities of life, such as the tacking up in appropriate places of muslin curtains and the tying of them with bows, I intend to buy a spade and a watering-pot and see what I can do with the garden
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It really is the only place, for I don't see how Johanna and I, gifted and resourceful as we undoubtedly are, can make terraces with no tools but a spade and a watering-pot; but it will do away with our only path, and it does seem necessary to have a path up to one's front door
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You mustn't suppose me cynical in calling it a catastrophe--perhaps I mean it only in its harmless sense of _dénouement_; and if I don't I can't see that it is cynical to recognize a spade when you see it as certainly a spade
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But here one could not dream; here was life, vigorous, stinging, blustering life; and standing on the top of the dune holding my hat on with both hands, banged and battered by the salt wind, my clothes flapping and straining like a flag in a gale on a swaying flagstaff, the weight of a generation was blown off my shoulders, and I was seized by a craving as unsuitable as it was terrific to run and fetch a spade and a bucket, and dig and dig till it was too dark to dig any longer, and then go indoors tired and joyful and have periwinkles or shrimps for tea
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spaded out by those now leaving?
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With this the farmer spaded the earth to bury the conversation
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But Jim was cold as spaded earth
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Already there was a fair bit of activity in the streets – people wandering around in what she could only assume was special holiday attire for men of brightly coloured shorts and tops, some women in absurdly brief skirts, others in long muslin affairs that wouldn’t look out of place on Errd, most of them carrying bags of towels and dragging small noisy children laden with buckets and spades
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They loaded their truck with ladders, spades and planks and turned off the mixer
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Except for the birds, the only sound was the thud of the spades slicing the earth and the dull splat of the soil as it was heaped on the side
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“The fucking four of spades
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The queen of spades
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Whilst Lemoss drank the soup the others fetched spades and forks, trowels and various other things which seemed to all fit neatly into his cart
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Spades, garden forks, picks and shovels
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“Where’s Johnny got to I hope he hasn’t gone off to stuff his face?” I didn’t know where he was but a short time later he came back carrying a couple of GS spades which he through to us saying
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These were called head spades, boarding knives, blubber pikes,
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Shock, Mother Nature’s anesthetic had provided Herminia temporary insulation from the full impact of pain, but a short while later it did hit, and in spades too
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She had it in spades
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This came back to haunt Mike in spades in February 2006 when state troopers from Troop K in Colchester broke through his locked condo door in the middle of the night and assaulted him without cause
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"Spades," he said solemnly, and scribbled the word down
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"Come on! You take the spades, Theo
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But she'd over-reacted in spades
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One group was the ace of hearts, and another came by that read the king of spades
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“What about this?” He dropped the spades one by one: eight, nine, ten, Jack, and a red Joker
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So, loaded up with spades, axes and pitchforks followed Sam and Pierre and the BBC men they chopped and slashed at the thick, choking brambles cutting a pathway into the centre of the wood
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There‘s a classic psychology experiment where mixed in a normal pack of playing cards is a red six of spades
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The red six of spades is shown to a group of people along with other normal playing cards
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Many people cannot see a red six of spades the first few passes through the cards; some can never see it as a red six of spades, even when holding it in their hands!
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In this case, we start with a belief that a red six of spades doesn‘t exist, so it‘s difficult to see it for what it actually is; and for some with very strong and controlling belief systems, it‘s virtually impossible
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" Her opinion of the state was conveyed in spades on her face
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how do you say this? In Spades!”
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The sealant seemed to move rapidly away from the heat and soon with the help of the spades, an opening was clearly visible
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Boy, was I happy! I had always given my all to my previous employers, and now it paid off in spades!
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She saw the queen of diamonds with her throat wounded by the steel of the jack of spades, and she deduced that Fernanda was trying to get her husband back home by means of the discredited method of sticking pins into his picture but that she had brought on an internal tumor because of her clumsy knowledge of the black arts
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He had the typical sense of humor that most of the desert dwellers possessed, in spades
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Any way you look at it, the corporatists want to be there in spades to protect world oil reserves and other natural resources
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And that is just what you said, confidence! It's one of the most important character traits a person can develop, and I think you've got it, in spades
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"The Ace of Spades reversed, that's the violence
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Paired with the Jack of Spades reversed--I get the
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As his eyes focus he discovers the 3 of spades staring him in the face
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As he collects and counts, he remembers what the 3 of spades means
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the Ace of spades
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There were four main suits; hearts, clubs, diamonds and spades,” said Krystal
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He found the latter busy with Henri Bruage cutting down the trees that still cluttered his lot, while his wife Claudette and three of the teenage girls they had escorted to Ville-Marie were digging and turning over the top soil of a two-acre surface with spades
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Next it was the five of spades, representing Tabitha’s
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corners marking the Ace of Spades, mixed with a green hat that
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in-the-Box symbolizing the original ace and jack of spades
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“Money Man Made of the Jack and Ace of Spades,” with his dog
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the Money Show with little Jeophries, the ace and jack of spades,
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At the two stainless steel tables in view, a number of inmates were busy playing a card game – most likely, Spades
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black as the ace of spades
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“How many times have you seen or heard of a killer leaving a clue or a note that a number of killings have been committed by the same person? This could be a calling card, in one case literally the Ace of Spades, or an article such as a ribbon tied to the victims, or even more obviously a note or something scrawled on a wall in the victim’s blood! There have been no calling cards, items or any text left to suggest that this is the same killer
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Justification for ridding society of them, on the other hand, we do have, in spades
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section of the table above the suit of spades labeled „high
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to reveal an ace of spades
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She had money in spades, what she was missing was love in her life and a long-term companion
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William pointed to the men with spades
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It is a bit tedious, but the research will pay off in spades
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“ Marcus has repaid you in spades
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" Marcus has repaid you in tit-for-tat spades
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“You remember where you threw the spades?” cut in Mary
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Jason Spades, the CEO
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He had them in spades
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Allen “Dusty Leaves” was just supposed to play reruns of the Money Show with little Jeophries, the ace and jack of spades, and of course the money man himself, better known as “The Hawk” to the listening public
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Next it was the five of spades, representing Tabitha’s position on the table
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She's a girl, so there are height and weight issues, but what she lacks in technique, she makes up in spades with her passion
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If that community had really had their wits about them when her sons started to go around town heralding her fame, they should have given that ‘fame’ to her… in spades
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You do it by reflexively feeding back whatever you receive… in spades
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If all humans were courageous enough to be positive, and always give more back than they receive… then nobody would ever think of doing anything negative to anyone else: because they would know that they would get that negativity back in their faces in spades… instantly… in spades
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There's a classic psychology experiment18 where this red six of spades, along with
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cards; some can never see it as a red six of spades, even when holding it in their hands
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In this case, we start with a belief that a red six of spades doesn't exist, so it's
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“I can prove in spades that none of what these two are saying is even remotely close to the truth, and I’m not kidding anymore,” this caught all of them by surprise
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He wasn’t sure what his type was, but soft and feminine were two key characteristics that this female pirate lacked in spades
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Awareness shot through me in spades as Colt’s hands came down to securely fasten on my hips
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I think we’re looking at that concept in spades before us right now
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He was of royal birth, in spades, so to speak
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Turned out it was the ace of spades
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They’d messed up in royal spades
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Ace of Spades – Motorhead
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They were all aces of spades
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It will pay off in spades when you adopt this attitude
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Here tourists can search for opal by using shovels and spades
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QQ, and the flop is J-7-3 with twо spades
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The sailors ran the ship into a creek, where ten slaves landed, carrying spades
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this economy they are being both of these in spades
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What distinguishes me from Johnson is that I have the will in spades
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The tower contained implements, such as spades, rakes, watering-pots, hung against the wall; this was all the furniture
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—Said the ace of spades was walking up the stairs
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—The ace of spades! Mr Bloom said
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They were dabbling in the sand with their spades and buckets, building castles as children do, or playing with their big coloured ball, happy as the day was long
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nothing in it but some old rusty played-out hoes and spades and picks and a crippled plow
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too high for my register even transposed and he was married at the time to May Goulding but then hed say or do something to knock the good out of it hes a widower now I wonder what sort is his son he says hes an author and going to be a university professor of Italian and Im to take lessons what is he driving at now showing him my photo its not good of me I ought to have got it taken in drapery that never looks out of fashion still I look young in it I wonder he didnt make him a present of it altogether and me too after all why not I saw him driving down to the Kingsbridge station with his father and mother I was in mourning thats 11 years ago now yes hed be 11 though what was the good in going into mourning for what was neither one thing nor the other the first cry was enough for me I heard the deathwatch too ticking in the wall of course he insisted hed go into mourning for the cat I suppose hes a man now by this time he was an innocent boy then and a darling little fellow in his lord Fauntleroy suit and curly hair like a prince on the stage when I saw him at Mat Dillons he liked me too I remember they all do wait by God yes wait yes hold on he was on the cards this morning when I laid out the deck union with a young stranger neither dark nor fair you met before I thought it meant him but hes no chicken nor a stranger either besides my face was turned the other way what was the 7th card after that the 10 of spades for a journey by land then there was a letter on its way and scandals too the 3 queens and the 8 of diamonds for a rise in society yes wait it all came out and 2 red 8s for new garments look at that and didnt I dream something too yes there was something about poetry in it I hope he hasnt long greasy hair hanging into his eyes or standing up like a red Indian what do they go about like that for only getting themselves and their poetry laughed at I always liked poetry when I was a girl first I thought he was a poet like lord Byron and not an ounce of it in his composition I thought he was quite different I wonder is he too young hes about wait 88 I was married 88 Milly is 15 yesterday 89 what age was he then at Dillons 5 or 6 about 88 I suppose hes 20 or more Im not too old for him if hes 23 or 24 I hope hes not that stuckup university student sort no otherwise he wouldnt go sitting down in the old kitchen with him taking Eppss cocoa and talking of course he pretended to understand it all probably he told him he was out of Trinity college hes very young to be a professor I hope hes not a professor like Goodwin was he was a potent professor of John Jameson they all write about some woman in their poetry well I suppose he wont find many like me where softly sighs of love the light guitar where poetry is in the air the blue sea and the moon shining so beautifully coming back on the nightboat from Tarifa the lighthouse at Europa point the guitar that fellow played was so expressive will I ever go back there again all new faces two glancing eyes a lattice hid Ill sing that for him theyre my eyes if hes anything of a poet two eyes as darkly bright as loves own star arent those beautiful words as loves young star itll be a change the Lord knows to have an intelligent person to talk to about yourself not always listening to him and Billy Prescotts ad and Keyess ad and Tom the Devils ad then if anything goes wrong in their business we have to suffer Im sure hes very distinguished Id like to meet a man like that God not those other ruck besides hes young those fine young men I could see down in Margate strand bathingplace from the side of the rock standing up in the sun naked like a God or something and then plunging into the sea with them why arent all men like that thered be
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She met Sam and the others coming back, their spades over their shoulders, their boots thick with muck
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Sam would stand out, because of his height, among these stunted serfs hunched over their spades
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But they stand a while, leaning on their spades and only nodding unsmilingly as the car- drivers go through, waving their thanks
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“He made a few million at poker by the time he was twenty-three, then, one dark night, the LVMPD found him unconscious in an alley with ten broken fingers and the ace of spades in his shirt breast pocket
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On one of the steps past the third floor he saw a playing card, the queen of spades, and he did not like that, but he could not understand why, it was probably some silly superstition
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They had the same split trails, however, and there were spades at the end of each leg, dug into solid earth
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The last thing Richard Braling saw was the spading arms of the Braling Economy Casket reaching up and pulling the hole in after it
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At the graveyard, as they turned in, two men were already spading out the earth