Shoveller

Along with co-posters, Edward T. Bear and the Shoveller, Buckets of Grewal is kept crisp and up to date.

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Along with co-posters, Edward T. Bear and the Shoveller, Buckets of Grewal is kept crisp and up to date.

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A writer in the “Naturalist” {78} states that a pair of Shoveller ducks nested in a disused brickpit, and brought off their young; but a pike in the pit gradually carried them off, one by one, taking one when it was large enough to fly.

Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter

The Shoveller, white-eyed and common wild ducks; Merganser, Brahminee, and Indian goose (_Anser Indica_); common and Gargany teal; two kinds of gull; one of Shearwater (_Rhynchops ablacus_); three of tern, and one of cormorant.

Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

Father Shoveller explained that he was in quest of some one recently come from court, of whom the striplings in his company could make inquiry concerning a kinsman in the household of my Lord Archbishop of

The Armourer's Prentices Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

Father Shoveller mused a good deal over his pike and its savoury stuffing.

The Armourer's Prentices Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

Stephen inquired at the White Hart for Father Shoveller, and heard that he had grown too old to perform the office of a bailiff, and had retired to the parent abbey.

The Armourer's Prentices Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

"He'll abolish the long bow from them first," said Father Shoveller.

The Armourer's Prentices Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

Father Shoveller, kindly as he was, was a mere yeoman with nothing spiritual about him; the monks of Hyde were, the younger, gay comrades, only trying how loosely they could sit to their vows; the elder, churlish and avaricious; even the Warden of Elizabeth College was little more than a student.

The Armourer's Prentices Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

Brother Shoveller likewise had a cell to himself but the lay brethren slept promiscuously among their sheep-dogs on the floor of the refectory.

The Armourer's Prentices Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862