Preston or Ernest

Usage examples of manning.

Three elves manning a ballista fell under the scro onslaught, one elf tumbling over a rail to fall into the phlogiston like a limp doll.

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Ship Control Team--The watch standers manning the Ship Control Panel, including the Sternplanesman, the Helmsman, and the Diving Officer.

Manning, I daresay there are no houses with reputations as unimpeached as our own.

The fact that the Asturian archers were shooting from the top of a very high wall added more distance to the range of their bows, and the effect of their arrows devastated the Thulls manning the siege engines.

Boyle backstage in that dressing room, you think he was trying to kill Manning?

Jackson, watching him curiously and probably trying to fathom his thoughts, was at the tiller and the rest of the men who had been with him at Cartagena were manning the oars.

The only people left in the building should be the duty traffic controlman and one or two assistants manning the tower, consoles on the floor upstairs.

Hammond had spoken to the night-duty officer manning the emergency line at the CBW Civilian Defense Unit at Dugway, Utah.

He arranged communication and transportation for the ricin plotters, and he recruited the crew manning the Exo scout.

Dante, Augustus Manning will see to it that all publishing contracts between Harvard and Ticknor and Fields are canceled.

On the gunhouses, which houses the gun-breeches and the loading mechanism and the men manning them, she carried eleven inches of armour-plate.

It was becoming the normal day now, half the troops manning the front lines, the best marksmen in the units sighting down their muskets, waiting for something, anything, some piece of motion.

Sixteen years ago Greg Manning was a bit overextended, and the Prometheus project needed an immediate infusion of cash.

I understand the observers are manning the space prober in rotating shifts.