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...whitish, yellowish, thick, greasy, misty, choking, ascended as high as the trucks. All hands cleared out aft. Then the poisonous cloud blew away, and ...

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...r escape from the mad clamour of terror that resounded through her, as the trucks thumped slowly, heavily, horrifying, one after the other, one pursui... ...if wanting to see what could be done, put on the brakes, and back came the trucks rebounding on the iron buffers, striking like horrible cymbals, clas... ...lence. Yet he seemed calm as a ray of cold sunshine. Meanwhile the eternal trucks were rumbling on, very slowly, treading one after the other, one aft... ...more. When she recovered, her soul was calm and cold, without feeling. The trucks were still rumbling by, and the man and the mare were still fighting... ...ould see the top of the hooded guard’s-van approach- ing, the sound of the trucks was diminishing, there was hope of relief from the intolerable noise... ...her hot, overbearing voice. ‘Why couldn’t he take the horse away, till the trucks had gone by? He’s a fool, and a bully. Does he think it’s manly, to ... ...its great mounds and its patterned head-stocks, the black railway with the trucks at rest looked like a harbour just be- low, a large bay of railroad ... ...chickens were balanced on the drinking trough, wagtails flew away in among trucks, from the water. On the other side of the wide crossing, by the road... ...Arab horse stand with him at the railway-crossing whilst a horrible lot of trucks went by; and the poor thing, she was in a perfect frenzy, a perfect ...

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...ld red-brick factories stained with tar, high-perched water-tanks, big red trucks like locomotives, and, on a score of hectic side- tracks, far-wander... ...wn the cement platform beside the waiting Pull- mans. Motor-driven baggage-trucks and red-capped por- ters carrying bags sped down the platform with a... ...d you know, that certainly got folks talking, and first week we sold—” The trucks sang “lickety-lick, lickety-lick” as the train ran through the facto... ...d you the commission? Good!” II He walked through the February city, where trucks flung up a spattering of slush and the sky was dark above dark brick... ...” Babbitt drove, not at all carefully or fussily, sliding vi- ciously past trucks, ignoring the truckmen’s curses, to the City Hall; he stopped with a... ... policeman, trying to look stoical beside the scab driver. A line of fifty trucks from the Zenith Steel and Machinery Company was attacked by strikers...

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...crate and bale and box. Sail- ors and stevedores swarmed them like vermin. Trucks rolled along the wharves like peals of ordnance, the horse-hoofs bea... ...dy edged their way among piles of wheat-bags, dodging drays and rum- bling trucks, and finally brought up at the after gang- plank, where a sailor hal...

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...ing along the far side within a few yards of the madronas and the forge, and not far of the latter, ended in a sort of platform on the edge of the dum...

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... roll, in ev- ery sway of her tapering masts, of those masts whose painted trucks move forever, to a seaman’s eye, against the clouds or against the s... ...r a second upright where she floated, shak- ing with tremendous jerks from trucks to keel; while high up in the night the invisible canvas was heard r... ...g straight up could be tracked by torn gleams and vanished above as if the trucks had been tall enough to pierce the heavy mass of vapours motionless ...

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...t became a run, and young men and boys, under the pretence of escaping the trucks and wagons of the cobbles, dashed across at a veritable gallop, flun... ...pring moving” took place. And these furniture vans al- ternated with great trucks laden with huge elm trees on their way from nursery to lawn. Familie...

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...e station and plunge into the hillside and the wil- derness of sidings and trucks, signal-boxes, huts, coal-pits, electric standards, goods sheds, tur...

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...he precipitous slope from thence to the breakwater, where trains of loaded trucks rushed forth to the end, discharged themselves, and hurried back. 3... ...ur work?’ he asked. ‘Filling barrows with stones, and wheeling them to the trucks for the breakwater,’ answered Leonard, in a tone like satisfaction. ...

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...he whole place to the railway siding and the gratifying spectacle of three trucks 120 The New Machiavelli laden with executed orders. Then we went up...

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...vice typical of the impending progress. The explosive noise of the railway trucks seemed to augment Decoud’s irritation. He muttered some- thing to hi...

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... earth and clean grease; and the leisurely chug-a-chug, chug-a-chug of the trucks was a song of contentment in the sun. She pretended that she was goi...

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...ts uts uts uts At first Joe thought the job O.K. He was loading hay on the trucks, along with Albert, the corporal. The two men were pleasantly billet... ...g- ing hay, wagons with timber from the woods, coal carts load- ing at the trucks. The black coal seemed to make the place sleepier, hotter. Round the...

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... visitor. Porters (out of a box of porters) career here and there with the trucks and light baggage. Quite a number of our all-too-rare civil- ians pa... ... ing very careful of the joining at the bends for fear that the descending trucks and cars will jump the rails, we send down first an empty truck, the... ...ucks and cars will jump the rails, we send down first an empty truck, then trucks loaded with bricks and lead soldiers, and then the ‘lectric; and the... ...d then the ‘lectric; and then afterwards the sturdy ‘lectric shoves up the trucks again to the top, with a kind of savagery of purpose and a whizz tha...

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...on the floor of the carriage. A little railway station, a string of loaded trucks, a signal-box, and the back of a cottage, shot by the carriage windo... ... smoke; one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight black oblongs—eight trucks—passed across the dim grey of the embankment, and were suddenly exti... ...d blue patches dancing across the dark, they went to the lift by which the trucks of ore and fuel and lime were raised to the top of the big cylinder.... ... of his breath. Why, even up here I’ve seen the rain-water boiling off the trucks. And that cone there. It’s a damned sight too hot for roasting cakes... ...he furnace rose about him. Horrocks, he saw, stood above him by one of the trucks of fuel on the rail. The gesticulating figure was bright and white i...

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...side the railway, and, being natives, had not, of course, unloaded the two trucks in which Mahbub’s animals stood among a con signment of country bre... ...hundred times? Wait till he comes to lie down, and then one sure shot. The trucks are between us and pursuit. We have but to run back over the lines a... ...d. ‘The night is full of eyes.’ ‘T wo men wait thy coming behind the horse trucks. They will shoot thee at thy lying down, because there is a price on... ...Govern ment police if a poor Kabuli be robbed of his horses in their very trucks. This is as bad as Peshawur! I should lay a com plaint at the stati... ...if they do.’ ‘I have seen two men crouching under the wheels of one of the trucks nearly all night. Fakirs do not steal horses, so I gave them no more... ...y will no more than take a little 130 Kim grain, perhaps, from one of the trucks. There are many up the line. The State will never miss the dole. I c... ...for my partner, Lutuf Ullah ‘Never mind your partner. Where are your horse trucks?’ ‘A little to this side of the farthest place where they make lamps... ...up on a te train. I was running to and fro in the dark on this side of the trucks as the te train moved up and down slowly. They fell upon two men sit...

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...t the surge of the tackle sent a quiver through her from water-line to the trucks up the fine nerves of her rigging, as though she had shuddered at th... ...P ART TWO IV W ITH HER ANCHOR AT THE BOW and clothed in canvas to her very trucks, my command seemed to stand as motionless as a model ship set on the...

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...plate till it looked like one long coffin, stood ready to start. Two bogie trucks running before the locomotive were completely covered in with platin... ...le of a machine-gun, and the second at either side for lat- eral fire. The trucks together made one long iron-vaulted chamber in which a score of arti... ...e. There was a sound of light-hearted kicking on the iron skin of the rear trucks, with squealing and grunt- ing. George was unloading the mules. The ...

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...of a rope tied to the root of his tail.” —a chapter on whaling in Ribs and Trucks. “On one occasion I saw two of these monsters (whales) probably male... ...seemed perched at the mast-head of some ship which had sunk to all but her trucks. But little King-Post was small and short, and at the same time litt... ...me coasting smack. Send down my main-top-sail yard! Ho, gluepots! Loftiest trucks were made for wildest winds, and this brain-truck of mine now sails ... ...loud-scud. Shall I strike that? Oh, none but cowards send down their brain-trucks in tempest time. What a hooroosh aloft there! I would e’en take it f... ...ll men and timbers reeled. Some fell flat upon their faces. Like dislodged trucks, the heads of the harpooneers aloft shook on their bull-like necks. ...

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...l. The captain took hold of the girl’s arm just before a couple of railway trucks drawn by a horse came rolling along and hid them from the ship-keepe... ...steeped in a bath of red- gold, from the water-line full of glitter to the trucks slight and gleaming against the delicate expanse of the blue. “Time ...