He stopped in the shadows, close to a pile of crates and saw some men advancing in his direction, passing rapidly over the edge of the red spot made by the electric bulbs, so as not to be under the rain of light.
Oranges and onions fallen from the crates were rotting in the sun, scattering their sweet and acrid juices.
For Crates acted in the plays of Cratinus before he turned author.
Yes, and we should have a dipping gunwale if those devils had not seized six crates of figs at Corinth.
The sun drew out from the crates of figs their odor of mellow luxuriance, which hung heavy round the boat, dispersed every now and then by a puff of wind which blew in the salt freshness of the sea.
As there was much horse or mules' dung near them, and some mules' shoes amongst it, I thought they had been fixed there as crates or racks to eat fodder out of.
A steamer of shallower draught came alongside, and the derricks started to grind and clatter, and the big crates swung up from one hold and plunged down into the other for hour after hour.
She rose, hurried out of doors, tore into the inspection of fruit crates for to-morrow's picking.
Here in a big hall stood a number of wooden crates bearing a firm's name, "Morton and Pratt, Manchester.
On one of the crates the Englishmen were sitting, waiting.
I have found it most satisfactory to pick by the bushel, keeping a foreman in the orchard to see that crates are filled full, ladders and apples carefully handled.
Many fall down here by using secondhand, odd sized and dirty crates or barrels.
In this way you get back your crates and part of the boxes.
All the conveniences and same character of boxes and crates used in handling of other small fruits are equally adapted to the currant.
There should be a space on one side or end of the building for unloading the bushel crates with which all well regulated orchards should be equipped, when they come from the orchard.
All small fruits are handled in the sixteen quart crates and are not repacked.
Our old customers file standing orders with us to ship them so many crates each day, and each year brings us new customers who have heard of the fine Bay Lake berries.
These crates can be stacked up four or five deep, and there should be adequate room for these based on necessities.
Here are men bearing upon their shoulders casks, apparently filled, bales of garden produce, crates of chickens.
Again we met hundreds of loaded horses, mules and burros and scores of men also, bearing crates and heavy burdens upon their backs.
He hurried to lend a hand himself, hustling cratesinto the cave.
The Planeteers towed them two crates at a time in a steady line of hurrying men.
There is a scattering of khaki uniforms, and many young men stand in groups laughing and talking in voices pitched shrill with crates excitement.
He found a hammer where grandpa had been using it to knock apart the crates and boxes, and, with the help of Jan, Teddy was soon making his raft.
At the depot, while the children were waiting to have the boxes and crates of things for the camp loaded into the wagon, Ted saw Arthur Weldon, a boy with whom he sometimes played.
While he smoked he counted on the screen the amount of cargo that had spilled out when the loose crates had lurched with the vessel.
As though hypnotized in inconsequential thought, he watched the crates slowly draw away.
Half the spilledcrates were in close orbit around the SS Fleury.
Whatever crates broke free from the holds also broke free from the ship's system and were no longer being dragged down the descending node toward spillthrough.
Queen and the crates were fuzzy, despite the fact they were still nearby spatially.
Their lines snapped by persistent tremors and lurches, more crates danced in the holds.
A half dozen of the massive crates had crashed through the hull--this time out of hold number One, the massometer showed--and the Cluster Queen was on her way to take them aboard.
A tractor kept itself busy rolling up the ramp into the ship and out again with huge crates that were apparently in somewhat poorer condition than when they left Arcturus II.
Second, the tight bottoms prevent any mixing of varieties, which may happen in using the larger crates by the bulblets dropping through from one to another.
The smaller crates are preferable for several reasons.
The crates should be placed where the ventilation is good, and no rain can reach them.
The cleaned bulbs are dropped into another basket and then stored in crates to await the time for grading.
Long distance crates for mailing cut blooms may be made of slats 3/4-inch apart, with end pieces 6 to 7 inches square, braced in the middle.
Strips of 1x2-inch stuff are nailed across the corners, on both top and bottom, exactly opposite each other, so that they will come together and keep the crates apart for ventilation when piled one above another.
The smallercrates are half the size of the others, two feet by three, and four inches deep.
The bulbs are then spread in shallow cratesto dry.
It may be asked why the large crates are not made with tight bottoms.
In storing mixed bulbs, or a large quantity of one variety, the last two objections do not hold, but crates containing kinds that should be kept pure cannot safely be placed one above another when the bottoms are slatted.
One of the most extensive growers in my acquaintance shades his seed beds with the shallow crates in which he stores bulbs through the winter.
Third, the small crates can be easily and entirely emptied, while the large ones retain bulblets or very small bulbs in the spaces between the lath, and when varieties are to be kept separate these must be carefully picked out.
I'd shopped rather freely; a number of fairly large crates and so forth were loaded into my speedboat.
Down the line, another van slammed open in back and a stream of crates swooped out, riding a gravity beam from the roof toward a waiting storeroom carrier.
He had a few more crates hauled into the lab, and he's locked himself in with them and spy-blocked the place.
In those specimen crates Mantelish has been lugging into the dome the past couple of days.
As the fruit was large and the bushes thickly planted, the yield was about one hundred crates to the acre.
An aggregate of ten thousand cratesfor the entire crop.
They also pool their fertilizer order of over 200 tons, as well as that forcrates and baskets.
Growers were working as individuals and selling their berries and buying their fertilizer, crates and baskets.
In 1864 (I think it was) I had a shipment of live wild pigeons which we brought down the Cheboygan River from Black Lake in crates holding six dozen each.
He turned away, while the snarling voice of the bully rang out on the night, urging the drivers to be very careful of the boxes and crates on their trucks.
In the freight depot were all the boxes andcrates containing the parts of the big airship, and by comparison with a list he had made, the young inventor found that not a single part was missing.
I've been getting some boxes andcrates made in which to pack the RED CLOUD.
We would like two crates of berries," Cora was saying to the woman, who stood, hands on her hips, framed in the narrow doorway of the sorting shed.
Their crates were full and they seemed ready to drop down from exhaustion.
Crate after crate yielded bottles, until all six were empty and the table high with straw; the only things that came out of these crates besides the bottles were a number of test-tubes and a carefully packed balance.
When she finally went down the gangplank the sigh the captain heaved was almost as loud as the exhaust from the donkey engines which were working out the crates of lemons from the hold.
In and out among the bales of wool, bags of coffee and lemon crates he slowly and cautiously wormed his way.
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