Cousins of shakers

Usage examples of movers.

The movers, after driving past the same dog on the same lawn three times, stopped and asked directions of a jogger.

Harvey hustled the movers inside and marched them up the two flights of stairs to the attic, which rose particularly steeply and sharply turned three treads down from the top, although there was an accommodating sheared-off angle of plaster wall worn smooth by two centuries of shoulders rubbing past.

Just yesterday, the last of the parcels had been called for and carted off by the international movers who, after all, had turned out to be Americans hired by the State Department and not louche, cheroot puffing vase-shattering Frenchmen as Lily had feared they might be.

Just as the Empire desk and the Windsor chairs and the gilt rosewood mirror Ginger had always loved and which Lily had said might as well be hers now, had been carried off a week before by another band of movers and were rolling west in the back of a fast pantechnicon van, on toward the prairie.

This led to many jokes about dual enterprises in which one of the two prime movers was consistently overlooked.

With all the new movers and shakers pushing their way into her circle of influence, Star Catcher had to be out there as much as possible.

Only the real movers and shakers in Mistport had access to energy guns.

And there you have the movers and shakers of Mistport, in all their sleazy glory.

He turned his smile on the six movers and shakers of Mistport, and they cringed before him.

Normally it would have been full of the movers and shakers of Empire, all waiting impatiently for the great steel doors to open, and their chance to gain the ear of the Empress.

Old debts are paid in blood, hidden movers behind the scenes are revealed, and long-established plans and conspiracies come to a head.