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Usage examples of stowing.

The Egyptian meteorologist acted like a busybody, moving from person to person, pointing out small empty lockers for stowing equipment.

Having tied up my hair, I put on white stockings, a laced shirt, failing any other, and two others over it, and then stowing away some stockings and handkerchiefs in my pockets, I threw everything else into a corner of the room.

They rolled up their nightbags, donned hoods and boots, and began unpegging and stowing the leather tents.

Claire walked ahead, picking up litter, stowing it, detrashing the site.

Now most of the men were stowing the last few items and harnessing the horses, occasionally pausing to grab one of the hotcakes and rashers of fried fatback the women cooked and handed out in relays.

Alaire asked, stowing the harps carefully away in their canvas sacks, which became a balanced pair of saddlebags.

Countless analog machines scurried everywhere along her decks, stowing landside gear before it was forever lost in the takeoff.

Without speaking to each other, they began zipping out of their skinsuits, stowing the helmets, the overgarments and the Mylar pressure-suits in the recessed lockers.

Here Naomi returned carrying paper grocery bags and rubber bands and they went to work again binding up the bills and stowing them neatly away for the trip on Monday to the safe-deposit box.

Having tied up my hair, I put on white stockings, a laced shirt, failing any other, and two others over it, and then stowing away some stockings and handkerchiefs in my pockets, I threw everything else into a corner of the room.

As an afterthought he opened one of the money suitcases and took out handfuls of cash, stowing it around in his pockets.

It was the detonator sticking out of it that he treated with delicate respect, unclipping and separating, and stowing the pieces away in several pockets.

He returned to quarters promptly at sixteen hundred and found Scott unpacking the last of his possessions and neatly stowing them away.

They rolled up their nightbags, donned hoods and boots, and began unpegging and stowing the leather tents.

One of the big sailing barges was tied up to the raft, and more workers were going antlike up and down the gangplanks, stowing yet more containers in her open hold.