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All our house was quite snowed up, except where we had purged a way, by dint of constant shovellings.
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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The ceremony is more elaborate than the “wallowings” and dust-shovellings described by Ibn Batuta at the Asiatic courts, by Jobson at Tenda, by Chapperton at Oyo, by Denham amongst the
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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The bottom must be prepared in the same manner as directed for the seed-bed; then form the bed of dung four feet three inches at the back, by four feet in the front, allowing for a cavity of about ten inches between each box; then place the boxes on, and put the shovellings inside, in the proportion of two or three barrows-full to a light.
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Beat it well down with a fork; then put the box on, and fill it three parts full with the shovellings of the dung that is left; after which, place on the light, and let it be close shut down.
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All our house was quite snowed up, except where we had purged a way, by dint of constant shovellings.
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The ceremony is more elaborate than the "wallowings" and dust - shovellings described by Ibn Batuta at the Asiatic courts, by
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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