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...fined and codified one is a knife the other a cut in between the fingers blood and pus one is dream one sanction in the early dawn I hear the garbage trucks grind and hiss one is falling asleep one is lying awake one is crawling with ants one is deadened by fatigue one is the spirit of Isabel one the phantom of my father each one present discernable unique in its propertie...

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...ing heat upon the thirsty wilted corn...unquenched by expensive center-pivot irrigation systems. A loosely-organized row of aggressive-looking pickup trucks--drearily-colored, indeterminate in age, manfully backed into position, and universally-equipped with locking tool boxes giving purpose to otherwise empty beds--had formed a defensive line on the torrid gravel in front...

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... salesman of real stores helping the deliverymen get their produce off the trucks and dragging the boxes to the sidewalks, ice-cream salesman on tiny ...

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...he frst man breathed his last. “Take the rest of them and load them on the trucks. We should be able to recycle these pathetic insects into something... ...damaged. There were various other, smaller vehicles; a Bronco, two pickup trucks, and four motorcycles. There was also a larger, ffh wheel trailer. ... ...d. The lead Firehawk sent hellfre missiles at the motorcycles and pickup trucks. They struck and exploded with ferocity, sending the faming husks o... ...f a gap. It was at that moment that he saw head- lights from several large trucks on the other side, as well as lights from Firehawks. “Did you see t... ...found a car and were headed northbound on I-395. Coming southbound we saw trucks carrying pieces of buildings and bridges.” Mrs. Santillo, Jesse, an... ...more darts here anyway. Besides, we’re nearing the landing site. There’re trucks waiting to take us and him to the compound!” Hera snapped. Crisco s... ...driver, but the Hummer weaved out of control and was struck by one of the trucks behind it, causing it to roll over. The other Hum- mers in the front... ...ic and we grabbed a car. When we got to Thompson, we saw a whole bunch of trucks transporting what appeared to be junk and pieces of buildings and ...

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... 16 months. It was built on a swamp and on the area of the old Washington airport. Trucks hauled some 5.5 million cubic yards (4.2 million cubic me...

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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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...Ach 148 S o u t h e r n F l o r i d a Ades web magazine okeechobee lAke - trucks pArking 149 S o u t h e r n F l o r i d a Ades web magazine okeecho...

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... over the potholes in the road, and weaved in and out of large, colourful trucks that wore painted slogans like: Please horn. Speed thrills but kill... ... hot chai boiling at a roadside stall – tea leaves stewing in milk. A few trucks added their noxious fumes to the cocktail. Their wheels trun- dled n... ...clouds of dust as they passed. The sons of the drivers rode on top of the trucks, munching their way through a cargo of melons on its way to market. ... ...e started off down the road and stuck out their palms to hail the passing trucks. 196 Chapter 24 Chapter 24 Voices in the Head Voices in the Head H... ... streets, where the slush was beginning to freeze. As evening fell, city trucks were out spread- ing salt to prevent the build up of ice. Theo sat b...

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... message. We never have cartoon characters dropped off cliffs, run over by trucks, shot, or exposed to any other violence. We have interesting child ...