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  • In the course of putting things away, he opened the drawer where he kept large utensils and exchanged a longhandled spatula for a Beretta.

    A Girl's Legs Stirring The Air 2010

  • I drove cautiously over to Ace Hardware to buy one of those longhandled Canadian snow rakes to make the rest of the winter somewhat more doable.

    Spicy Beet Soup 2008

  • At one point, I did a cartoon of a hooded and robed Donald Duck-like character, complete with evil grin and a longhandled axe, on a letter I sent to Richard Kearns.

    The Coveted Thelma Award, part two Steve Perry 2007

  • Holding the longhandled spoon she'd been using on the stew, she watched mother and children with heartfelt sympathy.

    Wyoming Territory Merritt, Jackie 1997

  • However, several monks were whitewashing the walls with longhandled brushes, and others were sweeping the beaten-earth floor.

    The Pillars of the Earth FOLLETT, Ken 1989

  • With a longhandled spoon Dinah fished for the black thing, and got it.

    The Bobbsey Twins at School Laura Lee Hope

  • She was a very large lady, and a longhandled shovel is no mean weapon.

    The Land of Little Rain 1903

  • There's a longhandled net to land things with that goes with those rods.

    At the Foot of the Rainbow Gene Stratton-Porter 1893

  • He tilled the land, and he chopped the trees himself; he helped to build the cabins and stockades with his own hands, wielding the longhandled, light-headed frontier ax as skilfully as other frontiersmen.

    Hero Tales from American History Theodore Roosevelt 1888

  • Presently one of them saw a label on the scoop, or longhandled, spoon-like shovel, with which Hiram had been working.

    Over the Teacups Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

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