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  • Harriet and Sonya had pallets laid out nearby; they kept sneaking looks at him as they readied for sleep.†   (source)
  • The main sanctuary was an obstacle course of torn-up flooring, brick pallets, mounds of dirt, wheelbarrows, and even a rusty backhoe.†   (source)
  • In an unassuming storeroom filled with dropcloths and pallets and crates, behind a sheet of plywood, the mineralogist reveals a simple combination safe that the assistant director opens rather easily.†   (source)
  • Why people grabbed the beer and soda, the cash from the registers and safe, the rolls of lottery tickets, but left the two pallets of drinking water was beyond me.†   (source)
  • There's a pallet for you in the hall closet.†   (source)
  • I have a new pallet on the floor in the back corner.†   (source)
  • She walks past me and kneels down, looking inside the pallets beneath the bed.†   (source)
  • I asked from my pallet.†   (source)
  • Things were looking decidedly more industrial in this direction: wooden pallets, a flatbed pushcart, a sense of crated objects being moved and stored.†   (source)
  • The thin shafts of sunlight provide the only illumination, and as my eyes adjust, I can make out row upon row of wounded, in cots, on pallets, on the floor because there are so many to claim the space.†   (source)
  • Lourdes falls on a pallet and hurts her shoulder.†   (source)
  • I'm told I was carried on a pallet by some men who met us coming out of the jungle from a camp where they made charcoal during the dry season.†   (source)
  • For the most difficult cases, she helped her father put the injured man on a light latticework pallet of rattan.†   (source)
  • Reynolds Stanley by this time is over on Henrietta pallet look like trying to rape her foot.†   (source)
  • She trips and falls down onto the pallet.†   (source)
  • I felt each slat of wood through the thin pallet.†   (source)
  • Brunner kicked the end of Monaco's bunk hard enough to knock some magazines onto the wooden pallets that served as a floor.†   (source)
  • All the furniture-the futons, the cargo pallet, the experimental cinderblock furniturehas been pushed up against the walls.†   (source)
  • Forklifts driven by human beings took the pallets to a freezer for storage.†   (source)
  • Our room was not large, and hot in summer and cold in winter, as it was next the roof and without a fireplace or stove; and in it was the bedstead, which had a pallet mattress filled with straw, and a small chest, and a plain washstand with a chipped basin, and a chamber pot; and also a straight-backed chair, painted a light green, where we folded our clothes at night.†   (source)
  • The baby slept on the bunk, and Susan Marie stood on a pallet board piloting the boat while Carl, behind her, massaged her shoulders and the small of her back and then her buttocks.†   (source)
  • NADIA WORKED on a mostly female crew that laid pipe, colossal spools and pallets of it in different colors, orange and yellow and black and green.†   (source)
  • He came through Stamps on a Saturday night, and Grandmother gave me the chore of making his pallet on the floor.†   (source)
  • We climbed up into the loft, wrapped some hay up in blankets for pallets, and settled into bed.†   (source)
  • They raced across the cavern, weaving around pallets and forklifts.†   (source)
  • As he left the man's pallet, one of the healers pulled Eragon aside.†   (source)
  • Then, giving all the credit to Allah, she rose from her pallet and announced that she would make an immediate pilgrimage to the holy city of Meshed in the northeastern portion of the country, where there was an especially venerated masjed, known for its healing powers.†   (source)
  • She kneels beside my pallet.†   (source)
  • And each culture had its own preferred type of rice, which Mehlinger began to stock by the pallet, in huge burlap and plastic sacks.†   (source)
  • And he had hated coming home to find her lying on a pallet on the porch on sunny days, his mother's face drawn with concern as she sat beside her daughter's limp form, singing softly, husking corn or shelling peas.†   (source)
  • The ailing woman turned restlessly on her pallet.†   (source)
  • It was small and there was no window to it and on the floor were two pallets of straw and sacking with scrapes over them.†   (source)
  • Next came plastic pallets to set them on and metal straps to secure them.†   (source)
  • Joe put his rope over by his pallet.†   (source)
  • They gathered logs, wooden boxes, pallets, lit diem, sat in little groups around them, roasted potatoes in the embers, told jokes and scared each other with tales of ghosts and monsters.†   (source)
  • He attended a kindergarten made out of wooden shipping pallets; there wasn't a lot of technology in the classroom.†   (source)
  • Finally Lieutenant Pennel was loaded with some other wounded boys onto a long pallet.†   (source)
  • With a tiny window and no fireplace, it was more cell than room, just large enough for a pallet on the floor and a small wardrobe.†   (source)
  • Just as he was about to get up and spread a pallet in the corner, Brown said, "There.†   (source)
  • I'd been working since early that morning, unloading boxes onto pallets for storage in a local warehouse, and I was supposed to be off at six.†   (source)
  • I removed my shoes, and fell asleep on a straw pallet.†   (source)
  • They opened fire: Bullets began ricocheting off the metal hangar walls, off the pallet movers and Bobcats.†   (source)
  • She shrugged toward Seivarden, slack and motionless on the pallet.†   (source)
  • I'm lookin' up at her from where I'm layin' on the pallet with Matty Lou, and I'm too weak to move.†   (source)
  • He landed against a mound of wooden pallets and shook his head.†   (source)
  • We faced each other now upon the pallet.†   (source)
  • Once you go down, I'll have some boys come move the pallets and empty crates to this wall.†   (source)
  • Others stood along the walls or sat cross-legged on straw pallets.†   (source)
  • Jocelyn lay on the stone pallet that served as a bed and stared up at them.†   (source)
  • The family sleeps on pallets, and she sprays a ring of bug repellent on the floor each night to keep away the cockroaches.†   (source)
  • Mr. Wine slept on a pallet quilt.†   (source)
  • I take a seat on one of the pallets.†   (source)
  • Thompson's gavel slammed down on the wooden pallet.†   (source)
  • "If you won't go to your bed, make a pallet there on the floor.†   (source)
  • Alessandro lay on a straw pallet in an enormous shed once used to store the detonators of the mines that had been placed in an arc around Venice at the beginning of the war.†   (source)
  • They knew that the overseer was trying to sell her, trying to sell this dozing, half-conscious young girl, who never moved from the pallet on the floor.†   (source)
  • They attached new sails and supervised the slaves who were manhandling pallets of bread, entire sides of beef, live sheep, live chickens, and barrels of what might be water or beer down into the shallow holds.†   (source)
  • We tied together two pallets of twenty or so thin birch logs.†   (source)
  • Fabet squeaked from the darkness, then Torn Haselbauer, who was simply a younger version of his grandfather, came by dragging the gray lift loaded with three pallets of maple syrup.†   (source)
  • Better than a whole pallet of Jack Daniel's.†   (source)
  • They had pallets spread out all over the floor.†   (source)
  • I stepped over them to go to my pallet near the kitchen door and lay down fully dressed.†   (source)
  • After leaving Emmi's room she had made her way downstairs and then fallen into a heap on her pallet.†   (source)
  • Thomas felt of it, then tore the bed apart and arranged the blankets in a pallet on the floor.†   (source)
  • Each time I'd hear a guard's footsteps I'd move the pallet back to the far wall and lie down on it with my back to the door.†   (source)
  • His suitcoat was neatly folded on his pallet.†   (source)
  • The pallet was empty and the clothes boxes had been thrown open.†   (source)
  • Up on a cliff shepherds shook from their sheepskins The straws from their pallets And stray grains of millet And sleepily stared into the midnight distance.†   (source)
  • When my daughter was in labour I erected the bamboo paling outside to warn my husband and son, as is the custom for those who have only one room and one dwelling; and when I had scoured the but and poured wet dung on it I brought out the pallet of plaited straw I myself had used, for Ira to lie on; and went and gathered the petals the trees had shaken about them and took them in to her, a vivid basket of layer upon layer of gold and red and mauve and purple.†   (source)
  • Inside, Jason and Sara Morton were lying between the quilts of a pallet which had been made up close to the fireplace.†   (source)
  • WELL, when they was all gone the king he asks Mary Jane how they was off for spare rooms, and she said she had one spare room, which would do for Uncle William, and she'd give her own room to Uncle Harvey, which was a little bigger, and she would turn into the room with her sisters and sleep on a cot; and up garret was a little cubby, with a pallet in it.   (source)
  • I aired out our pallet and blanket and tidied our cellar corner.†   (source)
  • Then Tobias gets us sleeping pallets and blankets, and I find an empty corner for us to lie down in.†   (source)
  • I carried the book to my warm pallet and quietly untied the twine and removed the paper wrapping.†   (source)
  • Her small, neatly folded collection of clothes sits next to the bed on a pallet of its own.†   (source)
  • It only had one bedroom, so Carl said I could make a "pallet" in the living room.†   (source)
  • I unroll a horsehair pallet and place a thin yellowed pillow at the top.†   (source)
  • I carried my blankets downstairs to the front room and made a soft pallet on the floor.†   (source)
  • Finally, I made my way to my pallet in the attic, and lay down wearily.†   (source)
  • There is the pallet spread with old newspapers gnawed at the edges by mice.†   (source)
  • Anything has to be better than a . padlocked refrigerator and a pallet in the hall.†   (source)
  • Margo has set up a kind of bed—four forklift pallets beneath an orange air mattress.†   (source)
  • I wash up and wrap myself in the clean towel and then sit back down on the pallet on the floor.†   (source)
  • She sits down on the pallet and, laughing, lies back looking at the cracklights above.†   (source)
  • I saved the cobwebs, twisting them around a rag and storing them by our pallet in the cellar.†   (source)
  • He came over and sat next to me on my pallet.†   (source)
  • Ruth wasn't there, neither, and her side of our pallet was cold.†   (source)
  • He pushed me back on the pallet, and for a few moments, we lay there, still.†   (source)
  • I didn't want it to be just me moving over a bit of pallet full of corn husks.†   (source)
  • He says to take off my towel and lay back on the pallet.†   (source)
  • She went back to her pallet next to another child.†   (source)
  • Next morning, Sarah agreed I could move my pallet up to the kitchen hearth.†   (source)
  • A pallet is in the middle of the floor covered with newspaper and a blanket at the foot.†   (source)
  • It was hot there, and empty except for the pallets and my bag in its corner.†   (source)
  • The pallet looked soothing and cool, and the thought of climbing the stairs again made me weary.†   (source)
  • After that, the horse went to sleep, with his groom, 011ie, on a pallet in the stall with him.†   (source)
  • He put his foot on the pallet and started climbing up after her.†   (source)
  • Arya sat up on her pallet with her heart thumping.†   (source)
  • There were no chairs, so Cersei sat beside the little queen on her pallet.†   (source)
  • Gus spread her a pallet and she sat where she could watch him through the open flap.†   (source)
  • "A wire broke that was pulling the pallet just before mine," the lieutenant remembered.†   (source)
  • Arya drew second watch, so she found a straw pallet in the haven.†   (source)
  • She dropped, falling backward onto her pallet, blood pouring from her nose, and lay unmoving.†   (source)
  • The fair young face of the evening before was gone from the pallet in front of me.†   (source)
  • I told him he could use my bed, as I liked to sleep on a pallet, but he would not do it.†   (source)
  • I 'lowed you'd take the baby in bed with you, and I put a pallet in your room for Lissy.†   (source)
  • He sat on the edge of his pallet, staring down at his bandaged hands in their linen wrappings.†   (source)
  • Inside, it's just wide enough to fit a rope pallet and a crate that serves as a side table.†   (source)
  • She's having difficulty balancing on the pallet.†   (source)
  • On a muffled cry she shoved up on her pallet and clutched her amulet.†   (source)
  • I lay Lath down on the pallet inside with aching slowness, one limb at a time.†   (source)
  • Bed was the pallet of cushions and blankets beside the bench, where she sat.†   (source)
  • The room was sweet with the scent of straw that had tumbled from the burst seams of my pallet.†   (source)
  • Mr. Wine was kneeling on his pallet and had his head bowed.†   (source)
  • She lay on the pallet, her eyes wide open.†   (source)
  • Hot Pie squatted on the pallet beside her, watching her work.†   (source)
  • There was a blanket on the pallet in the corner, a threadbare thing of thin brown wool.†   (source)
  • Asha guides me into a room where the Hajin sit on pallets, stringing beads.†   (source)
  • Brienne undid her swordbelt and hung it from the second chair, then sat cross-legged on the pallet.†   (source)
  • It is as I remember it: sumptuous pallets sit on a floor made of golden straw.†   (source)
  • My father, who had not yet risen from his pallet, stirred himself as we talked.†   (source)
  • Then he heard the old man say, "Fix the pallet.†   (source)
  • Seivarden lay too quiet on her pallet—surely she had heard the sound as well.†   (source)
  • Hot Pie went off and let her alone and Arya curled up on her pallet.†   (source)
  • Sally's mother lay upon a pallet, pale and cold and many hours dead.†   (source)
  • That purse was under the pallet they sleep on.†   (source)
  • All around her, men and boys stirred and crawled from their pallets.†   (source)
  • Later, lying in my room with my babies curled on the pallet beside me, I was sorry I had acted so.†   (source)
  • As he passed the open flap of the tent he saw Lorena sitting on a pallet just inside.†   (source)
  • When she finally sank back, exhausted, upon the pallet, I waited for a surge to pass.†   (source)
  • Once he had accidentally touched her, turning on the pallet they slept on, and she had stiffened.†   (source)
  • It was not much of a pallet, either--just a couple of quilts.†   (source)
  • I crooned to him as I climbed the stairs and laid him down upon our pallet.†   (source)
  • "There ain't nothing up there but a pallet," Peach said.†   (source)
  • I sat at the head of the pallet, pillowing Jamie's head in my lap and stroking his brow.†   (source)
  • Mary was alone on a pallet that had been brought down from their sleeping loft.†   (source)
  • The girls had slept downstairs on pallets, so as to be farther from the screams.†   (source)
  • I gathered him up off the gory pallet and ran into the street.†   (source)
  • And then he laughed, a mirthless laugh, and fell back upon the pallet.†   (source)
  • I could feel the straw shifting in my thin pallet and the old floorboards creaking in complaint.†   (source)
  • I slid away from under his hand and rolled off the pallet.†   (source)
  • There was much bedding, straw-filled pallets that once had provided sweet rest.†   (source)
  • The only dark spot in the room was Nelson's pallet, underneath the shadow of the window.†   (source)
  • The drunk looked over at his pallet and seemed to think about whether he could make it that far.†   (source)
  • Sarah told me that's where the girls slept, and she pointed out a pallet for me.†   (source)
  • Ned was laying on his pallet with the flint and iron in his hands.†   (source)
  • He lay on his pallet with his skinny legs crossed and his hands behind his head, seeing nothing.†   (source)
  • It wasn't Ned, it was the boy on the pallet next to Ned.†   (source)
  • The Indians to his left sat unmoving on their pallets merely looking at him.†   (source)
  • When Ned got through eating, he went to sleep on the little pallet I had made for him on the ground.†   (source)
  • Everybody knelt down side their pallet; I was the only one still laying there.†   (source)
  • Then we went to another room where the boys slept, and she pointed out a pallet for Ned.†   (source)
  • The fries were sealed in brown bags, then the bags were loaded by robots into cardboard boxes, and the boxes were stacked by robots onto wooden pallets.†   (source)
  • Mr. Crow had been in coal mining and the manufacturing of pallet boards but had recently gone into the shipbuilding business and was right now in Seattle financing the construction of frigates and minesweepers for Roosevelt's navy (though he didn't care a lick for Roosevelt, she said)—but why was Ishmael so blue?†   (source)
  • Increasingly I was spending the days as I did the nights, tossing on the thin straw pallet trying in vain to find a position in which all aches at once were eased.†   (source)
  • Her father lifted and lowered this by pulleys and rope, and she guided the pallet into a tub filled with salt water.†   (source)
  • We wound our way through the taxi drivers and mechanics to his pallet, off to one side of the garage, and picked up some more containers of water.†   (source)
  • I press my face into the pallet I'm sleeping on, so hard it hurts my forehead, just to force the memory out, out, out.†   (source)
  • At the moment, Vitaly Chernobyl is stretched out on a futon, quiescent, and Hiro Protagonist is sitting crosslegged at a low table, Nipponese style, consisting of a cargo pallet set on cmderbiocks.†   (source)
  • I laid a pallet for Mr. Taylor in Uncle Willie's room and crawled under Momma, who I knew for the first time was so good and righteous she could command the fretful spirits, as Jesus had commanded the sea.†   (source)
  • I kneel on the pallet and Caleb cuts a piece of my shirt away from my shoulder with a pair of medical scissors.†   (source)
  • It does not have a power cord, but there is a narrow translucent plastic tube emerg. ing from a hatch on the rear, spiraling across the cargo pallet and the floor, and plugged into a crudely installed fiber-optics socket above the head of the sleeping Vitaly Chernobyl.†   (source)
  • The straw pallets were rolled instead of piled in a heap, standing like little pillars along the walls, each with a lady's hat atop it.†   (source)
  • The women picked up their straw pallets from the floor and piled them in a corner, raising a fresh storm of dust which started me coughing helplessly again.†   (source)
  • Four things are on the cargo pallet: a bottle of expensive beer from the Puget Sound area, which Hiro cannot really afford; a long sword known in Nippon as a katana and a short sword known as a wakizashi-Hiro's father looted these from Japan after World War II went atomic-and a computer.†   (source)
  • I spend nights on my pallet wide-awake and shivering in the dark, listening to the howling of the seemingly endless storms that rage outside.†   (source)
  • At night, on my pallet in that dark hall at the foot of the stairs, rubbing my feet together for warmth, I am frightened.†   (source)
  • When I close my eyes, I hear Maisie's cries and Mam's screams, smell the acrid smoke, feel the heat of the fire on my skin, and heave upright on my pallet in the Schatzmans' parlor, soaked in a cold sweat.†   (source)
  • The damp cellar was fairly warm, but there was no light lighting the pallet or the washbasin or the nail from which a man's clothes could be hung.†   (source)
  • Darkness or not, she moves rapidly around, reaching, touching cobwebs, cheese, slanting shelves, the pallet interfering with each step.†   (source)
  • Sarah sat down on the end of my pallet.†   (source)
  • I could barely make out, or perhaps only sense, the forms of the boys, stirring fitfully but not yet awake: Dominick and James, six-year-old twins, huddled together for warmth on a pallet on the floor.†   (source)
  • Next I dressed myself in all of my clothing: two shifts and two skirts, my cloak, shawl, and the blanket from my pallet.†   (source)
  • It went on that way and might have stayed that way except one evening, after supper, after Sethe, he lay on a pallet in the storeroom and didn't want to be there.†   (source)
  • I packed everything I could into my denim bag and left it in its place on my pallet where I normally used it as a pillow.†   (source)
  • Curzon was lying on the stones, with no blankets covering him nor a pallet under him, not even straw.†   (source)
  • I collapsed gratefully onto the pallet Sarah had made me there, and it felt like the world's softest bed.†   (source)
  • It took her a year to choose--a long, tough year of thrashing on pallets eaten up with dreams of her.†   (source)
  • I moved my pallet as close to the hearth as I dared and sat with all my clothes, my cloak, and my blanket wrapped around me.†   (source)
  • A rag pallet on the floor, Dana!†   (source)
  • A lot of rag pallets on the floor.†   (source)
  • Their pallets are on the ground.†   (source)
  • Tyrion knelt beside her pallet.†   (source)
  • Pilate lay down on the straw pallet.†   (source)
  • The children lay wall-eyed on creaking beds or pallets near the stove, sucking peppermint and oranges in between coughs while their mothers stomped the floors in rage at the cakes that did not rise because the stove fire had been so stingy; at the curled bodies of men who chose to sleep the day away rather than face the silence made by the absence of Lionel trains, drums, crybaby dolls and rocking horses.†   (source)
  • My job was to sort the boxes and then haul them from the back of the trailer to where the door slid up, loading everything on pallets so the forklift could move them into the warehouse.†   (source)
  • The girls set out the dishes on little pallets made from the ends of crates that nothing overbalance on the uncertain surface of the table and an old man at the farthest end of the table prayed for them all.†   (source)
  • She stepped onto a pallet, swung herself up onto a packing crate and kept climbing, like a monkey, up two more crates.†   (source)
  • The boys slept out in the barn except during the coldest weather, when they made up pallets on the floor in front of the kitchen fireplace.†   (source)
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