| The first spadeful revealed five crocosmia corms stacked vertically, like buns in a bakery. |
| And they cannot put more than one spadeful of rubbish in each bag as it may tear. |
| This hypothesis crumbled at the first spadeful below the topsoil. |
| Then a spadeful of earth was dropped upon his chest and he was dead-living dead. |
| Our last contorted expression will be a tragic mixture of horror and embarrassment as someone shovels a spadeful of icy gravel on to our face and those of every other corpse in the limey pit. |
| Yesterday a spadeful of diamonds dumped upon a velvet cloth was only a spadeful of diamonds to him, and it was nothing more. |
