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    1. Kulai would have every right to leave her belongings in a crate by the door if she left with Herndon


    2. The crate is not to be opened, there's a ceramic security layer inside that must be broken to open it


    3. Ideally the crate should be unopened


    4. "I'm here to claim a crate that I believe is stored in that area," he said to the guy sitting there, bringing out a piece of paper


    5. "A large cylindrical crate, twenty feet long and over four feet in diameter with a plaster cast inside it," Tahlmute said and handed him the receipt


    6. You know, get the crate, arrange shipping, like that


    7. "I have no idea what's in the crate, I'm charged with delivering it unopened


    8. The Kassikan did not have a floater large enough to lift that crate, he was sure of that


    9. It is my belief from personal relationships with the people involved that we are conveying this crate to the most likely rightful owner


    10. He wondered if a press that could print this magazine on paper could fit in that crate

    11. If he moved the crate for them, from one faction to another, that could be considered interference in tribal affairs


    12. "It's moving a big crate, that much is public," doostEr said


    13. " Crates, boxes and piles were stacked at least eight feet high on top of the crate he pointed to


    14. The crate was a swollen collection of planks, but framed out with good heavy timbers and fitted with lifting eyes that could have held a long suspension bridge


    15. "We will bring the crate to a convenient pick-up point for your transport


    16. He had been under the mistaken impression Tahlmute had the crate ready to load and go, not back in dead storage under a dozen decades build-up


    17. The Great Crate at Taktor's


    18. He had all of Nightday to rig the crate for transportation, so he didn't try to get up early


    19. The crate really wasn't over four feet except at the very center, where it was five and a half feet high


    20. But that's OK because the backbone is curved, he can still get the crate four feet off the ground with the six foot wheels

    21. He spent an hour selecting the right timbers to block in the crate exactly


    22. This end of the crate was now raised enough to get the dolly all the way under; almost


    23. By then the others had only one more layer of small crates and chests to clear from the aisle in front of the crate


    24. He and Taktor let the huge crate down onto the dolly and took the rigging down


    25. Then, for an extra tenner each, they got all the remaining hands to grab ropes and haul the crate to where it could be roped to the rockasaur


    26. Then I wondered what could be in that crate


    27. That crate could contain four tons of scrap hospital carts, office furniture, robotic appliances


    28. "I won't," he said, unless they crossbow the kedas first and bust up the crate second


    29. "He wanted to go, he already saw your crate, this way you can keep an eye on him, see that he doesn't tell anyone else about it


    30. If Tahlmute had noticed he was glad he didn't get charged that much for the Brazilian crate and set to work on the cargo without having to be told, Taktor probably would have stayed and help unload the cargo also

    31. They took turns in hammocks slung over the crate for Noonsleep as the rockasaur rumbled on into the sleeping countryside


    32. We are partners now because you know everything I know about this mission and the contents of that crate and besides that, we're drinking together


    33. "This started when this crate was put into storage


    34. "We should be doing something about it instead of trundling this old crate into the wilds," Estwig said


    35. To be honest doostEr didn't much care which Brazilian wound up with the crate as long as he got his pay


    36. Leonora couldn't guess, and Ruby couldn't tell her, exactly what was in the large, oddly shaped crate, but it took four hands and two backs to maneuver it out of the truck and into the garage of the grateful recipient, who gave them each an extra cash bonus as he rubbed his hands together with unseemly delight


    37. They could only assume that the people Herndon was opposed to were hauling the crate into the shuttle cargo bay


    38. He heard movement behind him, and as he turned, he reached for the rifle he had laid on a crate


    39. Two laborers were needed to lug that crate that held them, for there were many observations


    40. She dropped his hand and skipped off, beckoning the guys with the crate to come along

    41. It's where these scavengers crate their spoils ready for distribution


    42. 'You ordered a crate with ten bottles


    43. the crate and passed them around


    44. In the decades they’d been together, the decades apart hadn’t dimmed the familiarity of that crate that took up the cart’s cargo box


    45. He then opened a crate next one of the lumber piles and hoisted up what looked like the cousin of the pump in their kitchen


    46. He looked through the collection of tools, assembled in a separate crate, and taking out a tape measure went about taking more specific measurements than those he'd made cursorily the day before


    47. As far as Alan could tell from here, this floor up here above the crate plank-up was a maze of dusty old furniture


    48. But the man she had really followed to this great city was once again at her side, the yandrille she came down here to buy was in the crate behind her and her adventure with the boy from YingolNeerie was over


    49. After she took her crate into the hold, she’d find some nook where she could hide


    50. Not even the blanket he had handed over had been removed from its place on a nearby crate














































    1. What could be set into storage against a future home was to be crated and removed, the rest was to be auctioned


    2. I tightly crated the machine in a wooden


    3. "Gentlemen," Whitey said with genuine compassion in his voice, remembering his pleading with LBJ to allow the Navy to smash the 111 crated SAMs, "I am aware of what you can and cannot hit, as I am also aware that you cannot place priority, or even certainty of strike, on targets you recommend


    4. neglect of animals, housing often means the dogs are crated for


    5. The first bound forward put Elizabeth behind a crated piece of machinery, on which a few bullets clanked as she checked that her women were ready or not for the second bound


    6. want it being crated for the Costa


    7. What was that expression he had used? Crated for the Costa, that was it! He had slipped


    8. crated and shipped over here; if by chance you don’t like it,


    9. Acknowledge for live crated in gradual break through


    10. Thus, Almighty Al'lah has crated man to do the favours and the charity on which the boons and the Heavens in the other abode depend

    11. Crated infrastructure for the free and fast flow of


    12. They came all dismantled and crated but assembling them would not be a


    13. And so European humans crated cannons and gunpowder: trying to recreated the black clouds of death and the flashing ignition of FLINT hitting combustible gases trapped under the negative CAP of FLINT: that prevented volcanoes from becoming intense enough to do their job properly: which was to create such hardship in Africa: that our ancestors would have been forced to stand up to volcanoes instead of worshipping volcanoes: our ancestors would have been forced to fight them


    14. Crated carrot and celery salad with dietetic dressing


    15. She made arrangements with the firms for all this stuff to be crated and consigned to Forsayth; in Cairns she made arrangements for the truck transport of these goods from Forsayth to Willstown


    1. "We'll have to take an aisle out over here to get it out of there on a dolly," their guide waved his arm at a pile of crates at least twelve feet high


    2. " Crates, boxes and piles were stacked at least eight feet high on top of the crate he pointed to


    3. By then the others had only one more layer of small crates and chests to clear from the aisle in front of the crate


    4. Russ happily barks orders to workers, who load crates of moonshine on a waiting truck


    5. Russ directs traffic as John and Khalid log the moonshine crates as they trundle up the conveyer belt into the belly of the plane


    6. A few crates topple and John and Khalid end up on the floor, Russ tumbles behind some boxes


    7. He went to the front of the warehouse and found some carts that were probably used to move small crates to different areas


    8. Amongst fragments of amphorae, plastic covered carpets and rugs, there were countless wooden crates


    9. Crates marked Afghan, Uzbek, Cyr, Scy, Ity, Try, Cthge and every Greek island including Faria stacked high to the roof on galleries along four or five avenues


    10. That, and in the mechanics of unloading big crates onto the quay in forecasted squalls

    11. The people crowded round the crates cursing, grumbling to one another and waving their arms, unable to believe their eyes


    12. They lost no time in opening the crates but were obviously mindful of the meaning


    13. Perhaps the crates were sliding about on deck or maybe she was top heavy, or maybe she wasn't handling to his liking, any one of a thousand reasons


    14. “We should be able to climb down off the back of that onto those chicken crates,” she pointed out the window


    15. Now as long as these crates do


    16. He looked carefully moving all sorts of crates and


    17. He took two of the crates and positioned them and


    18. moved crates and boxes back against the wall and replaced the restraining straps around


    19. They kept journals and files of their assignments in their room and gradually had to begin archiving their results in crates kept under their beds then finally in the workshop as well


    20. ” The ship was laden mainly with crates under tarps, most of them were small, Lorthrax had climbed the tallest near the front center of the deck

    21. She had winnowed Titania and Hipolyta's several crates of studies and writings to one apiece, and gathered a crate-worth of Jameson's work as resources to any arguments she might feel compelled to make in their behalf


    22. One of the things they constantly did was to package up pumps and other industrial equipment in wooden crates so they could be shipped anywhere in the world


    23. The first three floors above here aren't much more than piles of packing crates with some planks thrown over them here and there to allow aisles


    24. Alfred's light played crazily up thru the cracks in the floor, which was just planks across the tops of piles of crates


    25. There was a pile of small crates stacked up within a few feet of it, they would easily hold him


    26. As he jumped however, he felt the crates go over


    27. The crates were falling somewhere, until they crashed with the biggest of all crashes onto the out-of-style cheap ceramic ware piled on the floor below


    28. This was the first he knew of the fact that the crates he climbed had been on the edge of a larger opening


    29. Alan managed to get his legs up thru the hole to the floor above before the android ran up to the edge where the pile of crates used to be and played its light over the ruin of ceramic ware piles


    30. He had figured out that Alan had knocked the crates over when he went for the hole in the floor

    31. They were loading on the last few crates


    32. Nerissa stepped out on the pier, hoping to lift one of the smaller crates onto her shoulder


    33. shouted at a group of idling slaves to get the last crates sorted


    34. Other than a few large wooden crates that were scattered in a seemingly random way, the place was empty


    35. She crossed to the central aisle that led to the main entry, perhaps fifty yards or more from where she'd entered and peered around at the crates and shelves


    36. Sitting on some crates overlooking the harbor, Porge had a patch over one eye and a striped shirt, whereas Dumpus wore a tri-corner hat and a red scarf around his thick neck


    37. A tower of crates strapped down with cords tottered behind him


    38. “Then let’s go!” Bosco moved quietly from behind the crates and padded stealthily down a narrow ramp


    39. Slowly, the quartet wended its way back towards the top deck, hiding behind crates, ducking into small rooms, and moving quickly into the shadows and letting crew members dart by in their haste to prepare for the storm


    40. Often I was paid with food, either a whole lamb or crates of fruits or vegetables; as a result, our house never lacked food

    41. Very few vehicles were seen, but there were many horses pulling wagons, cyclists and tricycles transporting crates full of vegetables


    42. "It's the likes of you that need shutting up in small crates, not poor innocent animals


    43. Similar tables, pushcarts chained to utility poles and broken fruit crates lined an otherwise empty street


    44. Sergeant Jaeckl was yelling off of a list, work parties peeling off to their destinations, one group taking down empty hangar tents, one bunch crating the last half-dozen kites (planes,) one party loading twenty and thirty-foot crates onto the flatcars at the siding


    45. Someone behind us was muttering in the dark corner where some heavier equipment, boxes and crates were strewn about


    46. And that was just the people I could recognise: because there were hundreds of photos that I was in, wearing fatigues, those silly hats, examining crates of weird-looking stuff, some in exotic locations, others in what appeared to be laboratory facilities


    47. Blackshear pointed out the large crates marked “Peerless


    48. The British vehicle was quickly pulled alongside the tracks, and while the Major and Gambelli watched, the British sergeant and the other Americans rapidly unloaded a series of crates of various shapes and sizes and handed them up into the rear Henschel


    49. Colling cut the seal on the truck’s rear doors and the gang of Italians who appeared to unload the vehicle soon had removed all of the Major’s crates and boxes and carried them into the building


    50. He saw stacks of crates with stenciled labeling that he assumed to be Italian wines, cardboard boxes marked Schenley’s and Old Granddad, and other containers that he recognized as brands of Scotch, Irish and Canadian whiskies














































    1. Sergeant Jaeckl was yelling off of a list, work parties peeling off to their destinations, one group taking down empty hangar tents, one bunch crating the last half-dozen kites (planes,) one party loading twenty and thirty-foot crates onto the flatcars at the siding


    2. Wouldn’t it be nice if we shared in a collective dream where we could creatively create instead of a crating around a collective reality that is supported by our shared ignorance of any alternative? Of course, there we have it


    3. We all have full responsibility for creating reality not c-r-a-t-i-n-g crating, carrying around a burdensome reality laid upon us at birth and handing it off at our death


    4. All Night the Merry Men were busy crating the Swag, and I was to prepare myself to dress en Homme once again for the Journey up to London, which would begin at Daybreak


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    Synonyms for "crate"

    crate crateful bushel pannier bassinet basket bin cradle

    "crate" definitions

    a rugged box (usually made of wood); used for shipping


    the quantity contained in a crate


    put into a crate; as for protection