United States poet who wrote about California (1887-1962)

Usage examples of jeffers.

They were too delicate to let the mechs do more than hold them in place, while he and Lani Nguyen and Jeffers had mounted them to the robo-arms that would turn them.

Carl and Jeffers had to maneuver them into place, yoke and unyoke, check joints and seals, and be sure nothing snagged on an outcropping of rock or jagged ice.

He could never understand Jeffers or Sergeov, who listened to that raucous, heavy-handed Clash Ceramic stuff while they worked.

Ould-Harrad was hundreds of meters away and couldn’t see the design Jeffers had drawn with instant, practiced ease in the ice.

Next shift, Jeffers is supposed to break out the factory gear and start processing some of that iron and carbon stacked out here.

Let’s get the microwave oven ready for fried eggplant, - Jeffers said.

Carl had countered that it got in the way of suit fixtures and fouled the helmet placements, but he knew why Jeffers liked it: the image of Methuselah, of wisdom, of the old hermit in the woods.

Malcolm was hard to take sometimes, but he was the only one all Orthos trusted to speak for them-much the same position Jeffers served among Percells.

Of course, Jeffers doesn’t have it easy either, coping with Sergeov and the radical Percells.

What I want to know,” he said carefully, looking at Jeffers and Carl, “is why the Nudge Launchers have been reprogrammed.

Carl and Jeffers bent over a spacesuited figure sprawled prone on the ground.

Whoever had done this-taking advantage of the confusion and excitement she and Jeffers had brought about-had left his calling card alongside his handiwork.

Carl and Jeffers touched helmets and spoke to each other in private, gesturing at the line of shuffling figures.

The device was another hybrid of Earth-based and homegrown research-a mixture of new designs sent up by their secret benefactors, the mechanical brilliance of Jeffers and d’Amario, and Virginia’s hypermodern approach to personality-based programming.

Even some of the units that had gone blank over her long sleep were replaced, now that she and Jeffers had gotten the autofac working properly up on A Level.