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Usage examples of pallet.

I do not call it a village or even an encampment, because it was only a wide glade in the forest, scattered with cooking-fire rings of blackened stones carelessly tossed together, and with sleeping furs spread over pallets stuffed with fir sprigs, and with various cookery implements and skins stretched on drying hoops and bits of harness, and with saying knives and brittling knives, and with the gnawed bones and other remains of past meals.

Both the portation rug and the hover pallet could be controlled by the coding belt.

What did they know of the disagreements he had had with Primavera, who wanted to take the child to her pallet in the kitchen?

Her two maidservants settled on pallets on the floor alongside Prissy and Maria.

When Long Quiet reentered the tipi, Bay had already quieted Little Deer and returned her to her own pallet.

Escaping through the pallet ventilation holes, the ribbon broke apart into blue-green droplets that briefly danced in weightless abandon before recongealing into large globules that undulated in the dimly lit cabin.

Dengar glanced over his shoulder, then in the di rection in which her upraised hand pointed, as she balanced the corner of the pallet against her thigh.

Bricks that are to be fired in clamps or scoves are usually pallet molded and hacked straight off the hack-barrow rather than being set out on the drying floor.

The steel prongs caught on the lip of the pallet, which rose a couple of feet into the air before crashing down with a sharp, splintening crack.

Mother, fetch clean linens from the chests, and Sweyn, prepare pallets before the fire.

That said, he neatly swerved around Andi, roaring on around to a pile of pallets, his wheels spitting gravel at each turn of his wheel.

Shivering, she bundled under the fur on her pallet and wondered what had awoken her.

From the rest of the lamplit gloom his eyes picked out a pallet on the groundsheet of the tent, hooks on the central pole of the tent for clothing and weapons, a chest with her name and rank stenciled on it in the blockier form of Nantukhtar writing.

Their booms creaked and groaned as they swung the pallets of sacks from dockside to deck hatches, where the crewmen, as black begrimed as everything else in sight, wedged them down into the remaining hold space.

An oiler would pump across the thousands of gallons of fuel for the ship and her aircraft while helicopters would sling-load hundreds of pallets of bombs and food and the myriad of other items that kept a floating city like the Shilo able to carryout her tasks.