From "The Great Catsby", by F.Scott Fitzerald, again:|Gatsby |Fitzgerald
creak, and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud, which screens their obscure operations from your sight.
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Although all the text is very vivid and difficult, I'd like ask why
the workers use "leaden spades"? IMHO lead is not a metal for spades? ;)
Although all the text is very vivid and difficult, I'd like ask why
the workers use "leaden spades"? IMHO lead is not a metal for
spades? ;)
Again, typical of FSF's cumbersome style.
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