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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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...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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...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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... 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... ...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 window...

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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... ...e 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... ...ill 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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... 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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.... The whole amount was about a million of dollars. T wenty seven carts and trucks carried this money from the wharf to the provincial treasury. Was no...

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...thrown down headlong: the shaken rigging made a great rattling to the very trucks. All the lights went out: several chain-guys, snapping, clattered ag...

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... very much increased, you know. More roll- ing-stock needed already. Forty trucks went down yester- day by the 12.15—counted them myself. They’ve take... ...hey treat us very well indeed. I have the curiosity sometimes to count the trucks on the goods’ trains, and they’re well over fifty— well over fifty, ... ... last words in his sentences, and his slight exaggeration in the number of trucks on the trains. Indeed, the chief burden of the talk fell upon him, a... ...ggerate the age of the bricks, as her father had exaggerated the number of trucks. A big lamp hung down from the center of the ceiling and, together w...

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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 ...

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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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...opy that Miss Venner could not understand. I read it, sitting on his mule- trucks, as long as the light lasted, and offered him his own price for it. ...

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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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...ot about the fish-market. Once they each of them earned a franc by loading trucks with innumerable boxes of oranges that had been dumped down on the q...

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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...

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... courage to win over to his side iron, steel, obedience, dynamite, cranes, trucks, the money of other people… . T o conquer my desire for you, I must ...

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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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...teady chittering of the telegraph key. In the shadow of one of the baggage trucks upon the plat- form, the great yellow cat that belonged to the agent... ..., with a measured coughing of its locomotive and a rhythmic cadence of its trucks over the interstices of the rails. On two or three of the flat cars ...

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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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...s world, it lasted only a very short time. The sta- Charles Dickens 130 tion lamps would burst out ablaze, the porters would emerge from places of co...

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...d her box had already been wheeled ahead towards this summit by a lad with trucks, to be in readiness. Seeing their mother put on her bonnet the young...

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...fain to make their way, as they best could, among carts, baskets, barrows, trucks, casks, bulks, and benches, and to jostle with porters, huck sters,... ..., rolling towards the marts of gain and business. Carts, coaches, waggons, trucks, and bar rows, forced a passage through the outskirts of the throng...

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...r ever dangling between heaven and earth from lofty cranes There were more trucks near Todgers’s than you would suppose whole city could ever need; no... ...ar Todgers’s than you would suppose whole city could ever need; not active trucks, but a vaga- bond race, for ever lounging in the narrow lanes before...

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...nference. The old vet- eran dwelt in a movable hut, which, being placed on trucks, he could order to be wheeled about at pleasure, sometimes living in...

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... a bold metaphor, ingenious or horrible. A man’s breeches are his kicks or trucks (montante, a word that need not be explained). In this language you ...

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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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...ruction-trains rattled and shrieked up and down the embankments, the piled trucks of brown and white stone banging behind them till the side-boards we... ...ne that fed the unfinished piers. It was heaved up in lengths, loaded into trucks, and backed up the bank beyond flood-level by the groaning loco- mot... ...ble of stone. Hitchcock at the last minute was spending a few hundred more trucks of Tarakee stone in rein- 14 The Bridge-Builders forcing his spurs ...

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...rain might move at four or five times the cavalry rate. One would use open trucks and put in a specified number of men—say twelve infantry or five cav... ...- alry or half a gun per truck—and permit an engine to draw seven or eight trucks, or move at a reduced speed with more. One could also rule that four...

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...ruction-trains rattled and shrieked up and down the embankments, the piled trucks of brown and white stone banging behind them till the side-boards we... ...ne that fed the unfinished piers. It was heaved up in lengths, loaded into trucks, and 13 The Day’s Work backed up the bank beyond flood-level by the... ...ble of stone. Hitchcock at the last minute was spending a few hundred more trucks of T arakee stone in reinforcing his spurs and embankments. “The bri... ...on de Belt Line, wid de Paris comin’ in an’ de T eutonic goin’ out, an’ de trucks an’ de coupe’s sayin’ things, an’ de heavy freight movin’ down fer d... ...om far off. They waited in extemporised sidings while processions of empty trucks returned to the north, and were coupled on to slow, crawling 129 Th... ... down three at a time in heaps, with their own hands uncoupling the marked trucks, or taking receipts from the hollow-eyed, weary white men, who spoke... ...here, was to live on trains till further orders; was to go back with empty trucks, filling them with starving people as he found them, and dropping th... ...e-faced man in shirt, trou- sers, and slippers, looking down upon a sea of trucks, a mob 157 The Day’s Work of bawling truckmen, and squadrons of bac... ...spark-striking horses. “That’s shippers’ carts loadin’ on to the receivin’ trucks,” said the small engine, reverently. “But he don’t care. He lets ‘em...

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...y. I think that this is extremely boring. When we hunt we have two pick up trucks, one truck for the watchers and the other for the drivers. In the tr...

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...n are seen trooping home again at ten, eleven, or twelve o’clock. No empty trucks stand at the pit-mouth. The women on the hillside look across as the... ...bank for a moment, looking out over the fields; grey rain was falling. The trucks stood full of wet, bright coal. Water ran down the sides of the wagg... ...u don’t know.” “Yes,” she said. “Perhaps!” 134 Sons & Lovers “And all the trucks standing waiting, like a string of beasts to be fed,” he said. “And ... ...he feel of men on things, while they’re alive. There’s a feel of men about trucks, because they’ve been handled with men’s hands, all of them.” “Yes,”... ...f the headstocks twinkled high up; the screen, shuffling its coal into the trucks, made a busy noise. “I want my father; he’s got to go to London,” sa... ...along the rail- way, with the sunny autumn field on one side and a wall of trucks on the other, Morel said in a frightened voice: “‘E’s niver gone, ch... ...t night, by the lighted lamp-house, the tall black headstocks and lines of trucks, past the fans spinning slowly like shadows, without the feeling of ... ...should miss it. No; and I like the pits here and there. I like the rows of trucks, and the headstocks, and the steam in the daytime, and the lights at... ...hurch clock struck two. Far away he could hear the sharp clink- ing of the trucks on the railway. No, it was not they that were far away. They were th...

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... tudes of empty vans cumber the streets, we have hundreds of acres of idle trucks—there are more acres of railway sidings than of public parks in Grea... .... Wells of this great building every goods train into London will run. Its trucks and vans will be unloaded, the goods passed into lifts, which will t...

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...f the Races are in the streets, but the tramps and the tumble down carts and trucks laden with drinking forms and tables and rem nants of booths, tha...

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...ches down between each vast block – past a pilot-engine butting refractory trucks into their places – on to the last block, [and] down the branch, sni...

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...with perils — wagons, carts, automobiles; great, straining horses pulling huge trucks; and monstrous cable and electric cars hooting and clanging thro...

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...a sort of instinct, binding up lost umbrellas and walking sticks, wheeling trucks, counsel ling old ladies, with a wonderful interest in their affair...

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...rd Oil Company did not deliver oil to the consumer in big wagons and motor trucks as it does now, but delivered instead to retail grocers, hardware st...

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...tone or load was gently lowered upon a waggon which was wheeled on railway trucks towards the lighthouse. In this manner the several castings of the b...

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...obi, a hotel room was rented to put up some of the operatives. The suicide trucks were purchased shortly before the attack date. 89 While this was tak... ...ion” of this “Islamic Army.” 91 On the morning of August 7, the bomb-laden trucks drove into the embassies roughly five minutes apart—about 10:35 A.M.... ...of defensive measures, including cau- tion not only about strange cars and trucks but also about unknown aircraft overhead. “Force protection” became ...

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...lding; but, nevertheless, it is never handled or moved in its direction on trucks or carriages requiring the 188 North America V ol. 1 use of men’s m...