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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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...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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...told people with annihilation. When an engine would strike a mass of blocked trucks, splitting it into fragments, as a blow annihilates a cake of ice,...

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...eclared to be a heap of non- sense, were scattered throughout Paris on the trucks of costermongers. But at any rate, the landlord had got his rent and...

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...opoly, was selling papers with the afternoon’s news. The ringing impact of trucks, the sharp whistle of the engines from the junction, mingled with th... ...South- Eastern and the South-Western stations, and the passage of carriage trucks bearing huge guns and carriages crammed with soldiers. These were th...

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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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...sant welcome, shoulder your luggage, drive it off in vans, bowl it away in trucks, and enjoy themselves in playing athletic games with it. If you are ... ...de, the coaches, carts, waggons, omnibuses, gigs, chaises, phaetons, cabs, trucks, dogs, boys, whoopings, roarings, and ten thousand other distraction... ...wits by coaches, carts, waggons, omnibuses, gigs, chaises, phaetons, cabs, trucks, boys, whoopings, roarings, and multitudes. No tail twisting is nece...

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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...