A few of them were able to use contragravity hand-lifters and hand-towed lifter-skids; several were even learning to operate things like bulldozers, at least to the extent of knowing which lever or button did what.
And there's another ship detected but not visible, somewhere around the equator, and a third one somewhere out of sight, we can just get the fringe of her contragravity field around the planet.
Into this Otto Harkaman vanished, with half a dozen men and a contragravity scow.
They had contragravity scows plying between Rivington and Tradetown regularly, now, and air-lorries were linking the villages.
To the eyes of a civilization using contragravity and powered equipment it wasn't at all impressive.
That will explain why our guns and tanks are being loaded on your contragravity vehicles.
You know, these people are civilized, if you don't limit the term to contragravity and nuclear energy," Harkaman said.
Some of these were learning simple machine operations, and a few were able to handle contragravity vehicles that had been fitted with adequate safety devices.
Beowulf had nuclear energy and nuclear weapons and contragravity and normal-space craft, they even had colonies on a couple of other planets of their system.
Count Lionel has more men and more guns and contragravity than he has, now, and that's without the help he'd get from everybody else.
The real reason why Space Vikings had never raided a civilized planet successfully had always been their inability to combine under one command in sufficient strength.
In actuality, the circulation of gold has been prohibited, and the entire gold wealth of the nation is concentrated in vaults at three depositories.
The people elected the Representatives, and the Representatives elected the Delegates, and the Delegates elected the Chancellor.
As soon as the Queen Flavia had discharged her cargo and passengers, she took on five hundred ground-fighters from the Lamia, Nemesis and Space Scourge companies and spaced out on a raiding voyage.
Oh, he claims that his mother was born a year and a half before Duke Angus and the true date of her birth falsified to give Angus the succession.
Something was going on by the escalators to the landing stage.
Three minutes later, the control tower picked up two emergences at a light-second and a half, a thousand or so miles apart.
The Nemesis was challenged as she emerged from her last hyperjump; both ships broke orbit and came out to meet her, and several more were detected lifting away from the planet.
Illustration] The trouble was, they wanted to haggle.
But a planet like that, if one had the survival equipment, would make a wonderful hideout.
It seems that somebody on Rimmon has just re-invented the railroad, and they need more steel than they can produce for themselves.
If he doesn't, it isn't because I didn't tell him often enough.
You need all your people for fighting men, don't you?
And even if he doesn't, we can pick up more information on him, when ships start coming in here, than we would batting around all over the Old Federation.
A swarm of big contragravity machines, some robotic and some human-operated, clustered around the skeletal hull like hornets building a nest.
It's a lot of harmless fun to send contragravity robots out to smash each other, but it doesn't win battles.
The robot entered this, and in its headlight they could see reconnaissance-cars, and contragravity tanks with 90-mm guns.
There was a wide aisle up the middle; on either side, contragravity equipment was massed.
I mean a contragravity ship, a freighter; first, to move this stuff out of here, and then to move the stuff out of Force Command.
They've been making us work for them, converting a blasted tub of a contragravity ship into a spacecraft.
The two giant mining machines, one after the other, floated free on their own contragravity and settled into place.
Kurt Fawzi was speaking to his wife, interrupting himself to shout instructions to some laborers who were bringing up a contragravity skid.
They put The Thing onto contragravity again, and brought her down in place; the work of lifting off the reactor and the converter and the rest of it, piece by piece, began.
Immediately, every piece of contragravity equipment in the place converged on her; men dangled on safety lines hundreds of feet above the ground, cutting away beams and braces with torches.
She was Transcontinent & Overseas, the biggestcontragravity ship on the planet.
There were long columns of militarycontragravity coming in, too; troop-carriers and combat-vehicles.
He was wondering how long it would take for Pyairr Ravney to make useful troops out of the newly-surrendered slave soldiers, and where he was going to find contragravity to shift them expeditiously from trouble-spot to trouble-spot.
Floodlights threw a white dazzle from the top of the Proconsular Palace and from the tops of the four buildings around it that Imperial troops had cleared and occupied, and from contragravity vehicles above.
There had been no native sapient race on this planet, and in the thirteen centuries since it had been colonized the Terro-human population had never completely lost the use of contragravity vehicles.
And advice that one transport-cruiser, Algol, with an Army contragravity brigade aboard, and two engineering ships, would leave Odin for Aditya in fifteen days.
He watched the little figures advancing across the fields from the mound, with the village out of sight on the other end of it and the combat-car circling lazily on contragravity above.
The Lord Mayor and half a dozen others got a contragravity ride, too, to the meadows to pick out cattle.
Then she was afraid to get into the contragravity lorry that was to carry the hoes and the wagon wheels.
The idea was to teach these people to make better things for themselves; give them a leg up, so that the next generation would be ready for contragravity and nuclear and electric power.
After a while, it came back empty and I got on, and when the crowd pushed off on the top level, I put my hamper back on contragravity and towed it out into the outdoor air, which by this time had gotten almost as cool as a bake-oven.
More to the point, they gathered up all the cannon and machine guns around the place and got them onto contragravity in the street.
The mount, however, was power-driven, like the mount for a 90-mm contragravity tank gun.
Down to the left, there was a commotion and people were getting out of the way as a dozen men come pushing through, towing a contragravity skid with a 50-mm ship's gun on it.
There were half a dozen floodlights, on small contragravity lifters; they were run up on lines fifty feet above the ship's deck.
Coming through the crowd, walking as though the concrete under him was pitching and rolling like a ship's deck on contragravity in a storm, was Bish Ware.
Most of the ships had lifted out of the water and were resting on the wide concrete docks, but the Javelin was afloat in the pool, her contragravity on at specific-gravity weight reduction.
The engines are much bigger than would be needed on an ordinary contragravity craft, because a hunter-ship operates under water as well as in the air.
Immediately, as the contragravity field dropped below the specific gravity of the ship, she began submerging.
The Peenemünde settled down, turned slowly to get her port in line with the gate, and lurched off contragravity and began running out a bridge to the promenade.
Finale Four-Day Planet 1 THE SHIP FROM TERRA I went through the gateway, towing my equipment in a contragravity hamper over my head.
We rode down on a contragravity skid loaded with ammunition.
In the seat in front, the native pilot said: "Some contragravity up ahead, boss.
With them, he could see the air cavalry--egg-shaped things just big enough for a seated man, with jets and contragravity field generators below and a bristle of machine gun muzzles in front.
Big swarm of combat contragravity working on something on the ground.
A lot morecontragravity was grounded in the fallow fields, and there were rows of pneumatic balloon-tents, and field-kitchens, and a whole park of engineering equipment.
They began running into military contragravity twenty miles beyond the open farmlands--they were the chlorophyll green of Terran vegetation--and the natives at work in the fields were being watched by more military and police vehicles.
The ship was moored on contragravity beside the landing stage, her gangplank run out.
Then the Army contragravitybegan landing at villages that couldn't have been reached in hours by foot messengers.
Miles got to his feet as the car lurched off contragravityand the springs of the landing-feet took up the weight.
We'll give you all the contragravity and fire support we can.
You know, a lot of professional officers, even up to field rank in the combat branches, seem to think that ammo comes down miraculously from Heaven, in contragravity lorries, every time they pray into a radio for it.
Kankad must be using every scrap ofcontragravity he has; it's a regular airborne Dunkirk-in-reverse.
The entire garrison of the small Residency at Kwurk, the most northern of the eastern shore Free Cities, had arrived at Kankad's Town in two hundred-foot contragravity scows and five aircars.
After he'd wiped us out, he might even consider the idea of an invasion of Niflheim with captured contragravity ships," Hideyoshi O'Leary chuckled.
And that reminds me; how much contragravity could Firkked scrape together, for an attack on us?
The contragravity which had been sent to support the ground-defense at the south side of the Reservation turned to meet this new threat, and everything else available, including the four heavy air-tanks, lifted up.
I'll recommend him unqualifiedly for any kind of work with contragravity or mechanized equipment.
I saw them go oncontragravity and rise to about a hundred feet.
The second wave of Kankad's improvised airlift, reenforced by contragravity from Konkrook, had come in; there were now close to two thousand fresh Kragans on Gongonk Island and the mainland farms, Kankad himself with them.
We have the wire around the farms on the island electrified, and we're using almost all our combat contragravity to keep the farms on the mainland clear.
A little later, two air-tanks floated in, and then two more, going off contragravity and lumbering forward on treads to fire their 90-mm.
Jarman must have had some contragravityready to be sent off on the instant.
Finally, Kurt Borch emerged with a contragravity lifter piled with boxes and luggage, and Jimenez walking beside to steady the load.
Then he set down, got the toolbox and the long-handled contragravity lifter, and climbed to the ground where he opened the box, put on gloves and an eyescreen and got out a microray scanner and a vibrohammer.
The streetless contragravity city of a new planet that had never known ground traffic.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contragravity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
