11. With every new shovelful , the dog trembled violently. 12. A shovelful of dirt and another and another. 13. We've all got them on a daily basis until the last shovelful . 14. Family and friends at the burial each put a shovelful of dirt in the grave. 15. Joyce also downed a shovelful of peas and a mound of mashed potatoes higher than Vesuvius. 16. "Statistics are available by the shovelful , " journalist John Gunther once observed. 17. It has been piece-by-tiny-piece work, time travel by the shovelful . 18. But we can dismiss that as the usual shovelful , and in three paragraphs, we will. 19. Carefully plotting each shovelful , Sturm supervised the removal of dirt to a line of sifting boxes. 20. Some have the custom to initially use the shovel " backwards " for the first few shovelfuls .