Crossword-Solution: SPADEFUL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Spadeful | n. | As much as a spade will hold or lift. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “SPADEFUL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Flat-shovel load. | 1 answer |
| amount spade will hold | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings,
whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by
a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the
body.
Hint 2 anagram
EOIONMT
Hint 3 another clue
A FEELING OF GREAT ELATION
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Sentences with SPADEFUL (5)
Just let her bawl it out, and thin--we'll get something dacent for dinner." Dannie turned a spadeful of earth and broke it open, and Jimmy squatted by the can, and began picking out the angle worms.
Lord! bid the frenzied tempest cease, Hang out thy rainbow on the sea! Laugh round her, waves! in silver glee, And speed her to the port of peace! The Unknown Dead The rain is plashing on my sill, But all the winds of Heaven are still; And so it falls with that dull sound Which thrills us in the church-yard ground, When the first spadeful drops like lead Upon the coffin of the dead.
Yes, here he was, with such a countenance, half foolish, half venomous, as reynard wears when the last spadeful of earth is thrown back, and he is revealed sitting disconsolately on his tail within a yard of the terriers' noses.
But no sooner was the breath out of his body, than the queen said to herself, “To promise is one thing, and to keep is quite another.” And hardly was the last spadeful of earth flung over the coffin than she married a noble from a neighbouring country, and got him made king instead of the young prince.
The priest lifted the spade--and at the sound of the first spadeful of earth falling on Louise’s coffin, Peer started as if struck, and all but fell from his seat.
Quotes with SPADEFUL (1)
He was digging in his garden--digging, too, in his own mind, laboriously turning up the substance of his thought. Death--and he drove in his spade once, and again, and yet again. And all our yesterdays have lighted fools they way to dusty death. A convincing thunder rumbled through the words. He lifted another spadeful of earth. Why had Linda died? Why had she been allowed to become gradually less than human and at last... He shuddered. A good kissing carrion. He planted his …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1954).