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Bill earned a steady income, first as an engineer for the Rock Island Railroad and then as a steam-shovel fireman at a gravel pit.12

Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009

“We are remodeling the Alhambra with a steam-shovel,” Leopold lamented in “The Land Ethic,” “and we are proud of our yardage.”

Aldo Leopold's Legacy 2008

Outside Mr. Vilna's office sits a steam-shovel -- donated by Taiwan -- that could restore the irrigation canals.

Food Crisis Forces New Look at Farming 2008

Now, yes, he was talking instruction while doing it, but still sweating like a horse and blowing like a steam-shovel.

Sex in Films Steven Barnes 2008

But the dust jacket of an old edition says pointedly that the book is “the story of a faithful Irish steam-shovel artist and his steam shovel — the beguiling Mary Anne.”

2007 July « One-Minute Book Reviews 2007

But the dust jacket of an old edition says pointedly that the book is “the story of a faithful Irish steam-shovel artist and his steam shovel — the beguiling Mary Anne.”

2007 July 27 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2007

Then the steam-shovel engineers, sensing the time was at last right for a show of strength, threatened to strike unless their demands were met.

The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

“What the Colonel said he meant,” a steam-shovel engineer remembered.

The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

No ten thousand snow shovels were ever sent out to Panama, as later charged–only a thousand shovels that looked like snow shovels but were in fact specially designed for scooping the ash out of steam-shovel boilers, a use for which they were ideally suited.

The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

For a young man interested in a business future, George S. Morison had said not long before his death, the then small steam-shovel manufacturer clearly had “possibilities.”

The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005