For many years his gardens at Arkley Manor were open to the public so his no dig methods, symbolised by a robin resting on a spade handle, could be seen first hand.

Panama City's mayor, Harry Fannin, dug the first spade full of sand, and Colonel Warren Maxwell, Tyndall's first commander, wielded the first ax on the stubborn palmetto plants, so common on the East Peninsula.

If it's not a spade ( i. e. the player attempted bluff ), the first player is out of the game ; if it is a spade, the second player is out.

David Evans of the Evans-Bevan coal mining partnership, had wanted to call the colliery after his daughter, Isabella Bevan who cut the first sod on the land at Bryn Dulais farm with a silver spade on Monday, March 11, 1872.

When made ready for action, the first shot buried the trail spade and the two wheel anchors into the ground, following which all other shots were fired from a stable platform.

* In double digging, a 12 inch ( 305 mm ) deep trench is dug across the width of the bed with a flat spade, and the soil from that first trench is set aside.

Keswick Museum and Art Gallery have many items on display which are connected to the railway, including the barrow and spade used to cut the first sod of earth for the railway from 21 May 1862 ; genuine train tickets from the 19th century ; a platform guard's whistle.

He chose the spade inlays because his mother, who bought him his first guitar, was a career blackjack dealer in Las Vegas.

The hydraulic pump was sometimes improperly used to dig in the rear spade, resulting in damage to the hydraulic spade cylinders after the first round was fired.

At the first restaurant he sensibly pulled up to go in for his dinner, and as a consequence did not see Cobb strike the open range at the mouth of the canyon and head straight across the swells for Antler.

at first gratingly, caught by grains of corn -- then with a clash into its slot.

The smell at first was more surprising than unpleasant.

After he had spent the first three years in New York as associate conductor, at Toscanini's invitation, of the NBC Orchestra, he made numerous guest appearances throughout the United States and Latin America.

When I mentioned that for my first long voyage I did not even have the money for the return fare, but had trusted to luck that I would earn a sufficient amount, the young people looked at me doubtingly.

Yet when, at war's end, the ex-Tory made the first move to resume correspondence, Jay wrote him from Paris, where he was negotiating the peace settlement:

It was at my first Communion.

The highroad, one might say at first, belongs to life, while the way to the churchyard belongs to death.

Life is further characterized, in antithesis to Piepsam, as animal: the image of a dog, which appears at several places, is first given as the criterion of amiable, irrelevant interest aroused by life considered simply as a spectacle: a dog in a wagon is `` admirable '', `` a pleasure to contemplate '' ; ;

It resembles, too, pictures such as Durer and Bruegel did, in which all that looks at first to be solely pictorial proves on inspection to be also literary, the representation of a proverb, for example, or a deadly sin.

Being somewhat delicate in health, at the age of sixteen he was sent to Southern Europe, for which he at once developed a passion, so that he spent nearly all of the following ten years abroad, at first in Italy, then in Greece, Egypt, Asia Minor, and Palestine.

She was more excited than frightened at the prospect of having her first child in a foreign land.

Even the first wave of homesickness had passed, although there were moments when Captain Heard pointed out on his compass the direction of Bradford that she felt a little twinge at her heart.

The first act of Adoniram and Samuel on reaching Calcutta was to report at the police station, a necessity when landing in East India Company territory.

He seemed timid ( at first, ) wore nose glasses from which a black ribbon dangled, and was no bigger than a jockey.

On one visit he stopped at the office of the American, where he was known surreptitiously as `` the Great White Chief '', and for the first time met his managing editor, fat Moses Koenigsberg.

It was probably at this period that Littlepage got his first good look at the ordinary Russian soldier.

We stopped first at the amphitheater that lies at the foot of the height crowned by the Parthenon.

The evening of our first day we drove with Christopher and Judy Sakellariadis, who were friends and patients of Norton, to dine at a restaurant on the shores of the Aegean.

Master Gorton, having foully abused high and low at Aquidneck is now bewitching and bemaddening poor Providence, both with his unclean and foul censures of all the ministers of this country ( for which myself have in Christ's name withstood him ), and also denying all visible and external ordinances in depth of Familism: almost all suck in his poison, as at first they did at Aquidneck.

Yet it is plainly time to make a start, and to be effective the first move should be highly dramatic, without being fanatical.

For example: If your bodily injury claims start payment after the first $250, a 25% premium saving is often made.

Our last joint venture, Sainted Lady, a deeply religious film based on the life of Mother Cabrini, and timed so that its release date would coincide with the beatification of America's first saint in November, 1938, was a fiasco from start to finish.

The club that overcame the worst start in a comparable period to win the pennant was New York's '51 Giants, who dropped 11 of their first 13.

Nervousness at the start must have caused the blemishes of her first scene, or she may warm up slowly.

Clearly we can do this: We start at the first box, choose an item ; go to the second box, choose an item ; and so on.

Some contracts specify a scale of royalties payable ( for example, where royalties start at 10 % for the first 10, 000 sales, but then increase to a higher percentage rate at higher sale thresholds ).

At first, people indulge in fantasies, imagining the missing person's return, but then they start to feel like prisoners, drifting through life with nothing left but the past, since they do not know how long into the future their ordeal may last.

* 1907 – The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.

The Baptist movement originated with Thomas Helwys, who left his mentor John Smyth ( who had moved into shared belief and other distinctives of the Dutch Waterlander Mennonites of Amsterdam ) and returned to London to start the first English Baptist Church in 1611.

The works of this poetess are significant, because although they start out using the third person, they shift to the first person voice of the poet herself, and they mark a significant development in the use of cuneiform.

In 1939, coinciding with the start of World War II, Rene Dubos reported the discovery of the first naturally derived antibiotic, gramicidin from B. brevis.

Since the start of the 2008 season, the Falcons have recorded four consecutive winning seasons for the first time in franchise history.

After Winter and Boyer agreed to start a team in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, the new league had its first four teams.

The first private university of Bursa is Bursa Orhangazi University, which is going to start its first education in 2012 – 2013 academic year.

The names start with a R then a first digit indicating the ( old ) province, and sometimes a second digit to further differentiate in between different ringways.

Nkurunziza was the first president chosen through democratic means since the start of the civil war in 1993 and was sworn in on 26 August, replacing transitional president Domitien Ndayizeye.

At the start of a match, the shuttlecock is cast and the side towards which the shuttlecock is pointing serves first.

The introduction of the first microcomputers in the mid-1970s was the start of explosive growth for BASIC.

Walsh would regularly script the first 10-15 offensive plays before the start of each game.

Therefore, when played by experts, Dots and Boxes becomes a battle for control: An expert player tries to force their opponent to start the first long chain.

To start the game, each player rolls one die, and the player with the higher number moves first using both the numbers shown.

They did well at first, but then they start losing again.

Construction began on the first residential building in 1980, followed in 1981 with the start of construction on the World Financial Center.