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								It looks like a four year old started in on the steamshovel, got about halfway through turning it into a robot, gave up and went to go watch more Pinwheel. 
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								I will earfuck you with a steamroller and I will eyefuck you with a steamshovel. Punkboy vs. Planned Parenthood Ryder Collins 2011 
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								As for the music, it takes the best elements of grunge, sucks some of the steamshovel-jaw machismo out of it, and injects a squirt of southern california sunshine. 
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								As for the music, it takes the best elements of grunge, sucks some of the steamshovel-jaw machismo out of it, and injects a squirt of southern california sunshine. Everything That Seasons Always Shift Too Late (Music (For Robots)) 2005 
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								Long arms dragged the ground, ending in great burl knuckles that backed steamshovel-sized paws. The Metrognome and other Stories Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1990 
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								We thought of those who operate the steamshovel, the trucks, and the modern machinery, and how man began to scrape out those terraces. TOUR OF CHUQUICAMATA 1971 
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								I thought Gootes 'persistence less a devotion to duty than the idle curiosity which makes grown men gape at a steamshovel. Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940 
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								By the removal with a steamshovel of this clay-bar or dam, which could be readily overtaken, you could sail down to Moose Factory, where the Hudson Bay people have maintained their post for a century or more. Greater Ontario 1917 
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								Hey, somebody go back and get a bigger steamshovel, it’s gettin deeper in here! 
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