spadeful

After dinner we dug a small hole in the floor of the outer tent, in which we placed a spadeful of red-hot embers from the fire.

There would be no getting used to it, every moment, every hour, that passed would but put another spadeful of earth on his coffin.

Yesterday a spadeful of diamonds dumped upon a velvet cloth was only a spadeful of diamonds to him, and it was nothing more.

"I can see roses in that, miss," said the gardener, turning up a deep spadeful for her inspection.

I cant budge a spadeful of this hard ground, Betty, complained Ruth, as her companion joined her.