Let's go somewhere else by the next train,' and they would shovel a few things-usually those among their possessions which they were least likely to want-into a bag, and take tickets quite at random to any place, known or unknown, which occurred to them.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
Beneath its floor, in wrappings of torn bags, straw and hessian, were lashed a wooden plough, a broad-bladed shovel, and half a dozen farming and carpentering tools.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard
In an Indian lodge he had once seen a shovel and a small pick.
"If Any Man Sin"
H. A. Cody