trowelful

Since the Denises wanted to photograph the dig beginning with the first trowelful of earth, Louis promised to delay the work a few weeks until their cameraman, Des Bartlett, could arrive—a rendezvous they scheduled for July 17.

Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

Since the Denises wanted to photograph the dig beginning with the first trowelful of earth, Louis promised to delay the work a few weeks until their cameraman, Des Bartlett, could arrive—a rendezvous they scheduled for July 17.

Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

For early spring flowering plant from October to December, placing the tubers 2-1/2 or 3 in. deep and 4 or 5 in. apart, with a trowelful of manure under each plant, but not touching them.

Gardening for the Million Alfred Pink

If, when transplanting, each plant is set with a trowelful of manure, the result will be plants twice as large by the first of October, when they can be again transplanted to their permanent places.

A Woman's Hardy Garden 1903

He has put it with a trowelful of sand into our box.

The Insect Folk Margaret Warner Morley 1890

Now the moment had arrived for each one to place his trowelful of mortar on the face of the large stone lying in the trench, in order that the other might be fitted and fastened to it.

The Social Cancer Jos�� Rizal 1878

"You do not put on your trowelful, Señor Ibarra?" said the curate, with a familiar and jocular air.

An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere Jos�� Rizal 1878

"Aren't you going to put on your trowelful, Señor Ibarra?"

The Social Cancer Jos�� Rizal 1878

The hand of genius had devised this lonely country inn; and there was not an inch of woodwork, or trowelful of plaster employed in all the rickety construction that did not offer its own peculiar weak point to every assault of its indefatigable foe.

Lady Audley's Secret 1875

The Bee applies it pellet by pellet, trowelful by trowelful, to the depth of a centimetre (.39 inch -- Translator's Note.) over the cluster of cells, which disappear entirely under the clay covering.

The Mason-Bees Jean-Henri Fabre 1869