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Usage examples of chests.

But there were numerous baskets and bundles of food, and several chests of clothing and other belongings to be loaded onto the wagon and carried down to the boat, and stowed aboard.

Owing to the steepness of the cliff, the cart could not reach the quay and so all the chests and baskets had to be carried half-way up the hill to the waiting wagon.

The stone-paved street was strewn with broken objects - items of furniture, casks, chests, kitchen utensils, clothing - which had been stripped from the houses and thrown into the streets.

Murdo filled his gaze with the glimmering objects: cups and bowls, plates and platters, armbands and bracelets, bejewelled chests and chalices, caskets, and boxes, necklaces, diadem, and chains of all kinds in heavy gold and fine silver.

Crouching, crawling, Murdo picked his way among the chests and caskets, praying he would know the lance when he found it, all the time working his way slowly towards the back of the tent where he discovered a shambling mound of hastily-stored loot taken from the crusaders.

There came a little space while the chests were bound into place on the pack frames.

Judging from all the boxes and chests, it would take them a fair while before they worked their way to the back of the tent.

He watched while the guards carried out six more chests, and then untied three horses and brought them to stand with the others.

He cut off at the sight of a stranger in the room, a tall, skinny man in a turban who stood beside a score of small wooden chests, like the tin-lined chests in which tea was shipped, stacked on the dirt floor against a dusty stone wall.

The largest dimension of the chests was the length of a man's forearm.

I offer much gold for you to deliver my chests and myself to the mouth of the Zaporoska River, not for you to ask questions and make demands.

Vendhyan, perhaps, though seemingly the chests went in the wrong direction for that.

The seals could be simply a means of keeping the chests tightly closed or a way to tell if they had been opened.

There was an answer he must have, and it lay there in the chests stacked against the wall.

The Nemedian and the herbalist moved toward the stacked chests, and Hordo dropped his voice to a whisper ranged for Conan's ears.