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Examples
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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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