When the floor needed patching, Jamie went to somebody's garden, brought a shovelful of earth, mixed it and filled the holes.
"My Lady of the Chimney Corner"
Alexander Irvine
He could see that the gravel was full of gold, and every shovelful he threw out sparkled with the golden ore.
"If Any Man Sin"
H. A. Cody
The Englishman went and found everything as the two prospectors had said; thawed out the soil in half a dozen places; scooped up the dirt and every shovelful panned out about twelve hundred to the ton.
"Peter A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero"
F. Hopkinson Smith