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- Can you have it drop shipped, so I don't need to return to the store?
- A few minutes more by dropship.† (source)
- At the bottom was the dropship, a circular contraption outfitted with rows of harnessed seats that would take the poor, clueless kids to Earth.† (source)
- His stutter had disappeared the day the royal dropship landed on Hyperion.† (source)
- Brilliant view of my new world as the dropship brought us down.† (source)
- To the west an Ouster dropship sat with its portals irised open.† (source)
- There were only five of us in the dropship.† (source)
- The guards were closing in around two figures near the entrance to the dropship.† (source)
- Their bodies lay on the other side of the dropship.† (source)
- The dropship jerked suddenly, and the buzz of conversation gave way to a flurry of gasps.† (source)
- As they'd loaded onto the dropship, he'd been dismayed not to see Glass there.† (source)
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- I think the medical supplies kits were thrown out of the dropship in the crash.† (source)
- Clarke hadn't seen her on the dropship, but she had to be here somewhere.† (source)
- The boy who'd forced his way onto the dropship—who'd held Wells's father hostage.† (source)
- Her old cell mate twisted in her seat, the only person in the dropship not staring at the guard.† (source)
- Bellamy set up a makeshift cot for Octavia at the short end, near the wreckage of the dropship.† (source)
- If the medicine chest wasn't in the clearing, that meant it was probably still in the dropship.† (source)
- A smaller girl hovering next to the dropship whimpered as she pulled her jacket up over her mouth.† (source)
- She dashed to the far side of the dropship, where another ramp led back up to the loading deck.† (source)
- The dropship shook even harder, and with a roar, part of the ceiling tore off.† (source)
- She must have been thrown out of the back of the dropship during the landing.† (source)
- For the briefest of moments, Glass wished she'd stayed on the dropship with Clarke and Wells.† (source)
- She turned to the control panel next to the dropship and started pressing a series of buttons.† (source)
- Pieces of the dropship lay scattered about like bones.† (source)
- Let me onto the dropship, or I'll shoot.† (source)
- Problem: Why are they so fanatical about maintaining the same Three Score and Ten population that the lost dropship colony started with?† (source)
- Kassad had been trained to handle military transports, simple tanks and APCs, even an assault boat or dropship if he was desperate.† (source)
- "Did you know that Hyperion was one of the nine labyrinthine worlds?" someone had asked me on the dropship.† (source)
- I was rushed here from the dropship station and told that I was to visit Siri's tomb before the farcaster opening.† (source)
- They kept the tribal population at seventy-the same number recorded on the passenger list of the dropship that crashed here four hundred years ago.† (source)
- It was in their last hour together, during the dropship ride down, that Father Hoyt had gained the slightest glimpse into his companion's thoughts.† (source)
- He was in the carrier section: a cushioned hold looking a lot like the jump rat bay of any dropship or APC.† (source)
- Until then it was a primitive place with a dropship grid, newly finished buildings of the local white stone, and a few bored maintenance people.† (source)
- I remember one three-day affair she threw in the Manhattan Archipelago, guests ferried in by dropship from Orbit City and from the European arcologies.† (source)
- The Ousters responded with a barrage of nuclear and plasma weapons, pinning the ground troops under forcefields while the Ouster infantry retreated to prepared "defenses around cities and dropship staging areas.† (source)
- By Hegemony Standard, it is October 12, 589 p. c. By Hyperion reckoning, or so I am told by the wizened little clerk in the old hotel where I am staying, it is the twentyzthird day of Lycius (the last of their seven forty-day months), either 426 A.D.C. (after dropship crash!)† (source)
- -even though the data in the comiog insisted that the dropship of seventy colonists who had crashed on this plateau four hundred years ago had held only Neo-Kerwin Marxists, all of whom should have been indifferent if not openly hostile to the old religions.† (source)
- The limb of Hyperion had been glowing white and green and lapis above them for hours when suddenly the old dropship had cut into the upper layers of atmosphere, flame had briefly filled the window, and then they were flying silently some sixty kilometers above dark cloud masses and starlit seas with the hurtling terminator of Hyperion's sunrise rushing toward them like a spectral tidal wave of light.† (source)
- While the other kids shuffled passively along as their escorts led them toward the dropship, it was clear Octavia was the one setting the pace.† (source)
- An angry shout pulled his attention to a group at the far end of the clearing, near the wreckage of the dropship.† (source)
- She turned into his hallway and slowed down, wiping her sweaty hands on her pants, suddenly more nervous than she'd been on the dropship.† (source)
- It hadn't turned up in the wreckage, most likely thrown from the dropship during the crash and destroyed.† (source)
- Glass glanced at the back of the dropship and froze, momentarily stunned by the sight of her best friend's face.† (source)
- She became vaguely aware of voices behind her and turned to see a few of the others emerge from the dropship.† (source)
- Unless they found the medicine that had been flung from the dropship, there was nothing she could do to ease her suffering.† (source)
- He had three minutes to get past the door, down the ramp, and onto the dropship, or else lose his sister forever.† (source)
- All he had to do was wait until the door to the dropship started to close, then push the Chancellor out of the way and duck inside.† (source)
- He had no idea if the Colony lost contact with the dropship when it crashed, but he hoped that the monitors in the bracelets were still transmitting data about their blood composition and heart rates.† (source)
- For the next twenty minutes, the dropship was filled with the nervous, overexcited chatter of a hundred people who, until a few hours ago, had never even thought about going to Earth.† (source)
- The clouds were thick enough to block out most of the stars, but Bellamy tilted his head back anyway, wondering how much warning they'd have before the next dropship arrived.† (source)
- Either they thought they had better things to do than witness humanity's first attempt to return to Earth, or they thought the ancient dropship was going to explode and were headed to safety.† (source)
- Wells was on the dropship.† (source)
- He could only imagine what it was like for the others, who were snatched from their cells and shoved onto the dropship before they had time to process what was going on, that they were being sent to a foreign planet that had never been more to them than an empty word.† (source)
- The battered dropship was at the short end of the clearing, and for the first fifteen minutes, the passengers had clustered around the smoldering wreckage, too scared and stunned to move more than a few shaky steps.† (source)
- "Well be monitoring your progress very closely, in order to keep you safe," the Chancellor continued as the next ten prisoners filed down the ramp, accompanied by a guard who gave the Chancellor a crisp salute before depositing his charges in the dropship and retreating back up to stand in the hallway.† (source)
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