The lorry proved to be a most comfortable place, though the girls knew they would be somewhat cramped for room.
He was asleep when the armylorry roared by and then stopped down the road, brakes screeching, rubber biting into macadam.
More dead than alive, they put him in the lorry and rushed him to their garrison.
Supplies were sent from near Buiko on the Northern Railway by lorry to Sonya, and thence to Kasigao by carriers.
As carriers took at least four days for the same journey a calculation showed that one lorry could do the work of six hundred carriers, who required subsistence in addition.
He lifted the jeep and started off; the lorry, and the scows and the other lorry followed; the snooper and the bomb-robots went ahead like a pack of hunting dogs.
One lorry of his own party would follow the jeep; the other would bring up the rear.
A water tank landed, and the cook-shed began going up beside it; a lorry came in with scanning and probing equipment, and a couple of men jumped off and huddled over a photoprint copy of one of Conn's maps.
Sommers and his gang from the number one lorrywere also afoot; their vehicle had been disabled.
Think of those boys, with not a word of French, taking that lorry from the coast to the English lines!
A few feet beyond the lorry we came up to the trenches.
A great lorry had gone into the mud at the side of the road and was being dug out.
An ammunition lorryhad drawn up in the shadow of a hedge and was cautiously unloading.
Thence supplies are distributed by motorlorry to the areas still further forward.
This limit had already been reached when the Corps front arrived on the west bank of the Somme, and the strain upon the lorry service was already great.
Hundreds of tons of steel girders, of all lengths and sections, were hurried up, by speciallorry service.
The road surfaces, speedily deteriorating under the strain and wear of heavy motor lorry traffic, had to be kept constantly under repair.
Advanced parties, for billeting duty, were to proceed next morning by motor lorry to Doullens, and there await orders.
Helped by the bluers, and a few others, I soon ran up my marquee, and Mr. Wayman very kindly lent me a lorryfor an outside platform.
So, after thinking hard for a second or two, I called to Cliff, and told him to come up outside on the lorry with me, and to bring my box, together with the canvas cover and the rope.
Then I started the usual patter on the lorry outside in order to collect an audience.
Lorry was the First-In Scout who charted Warlock, and he is a good man.
And it registered whenever Lorryhad one of those dreams.
They produced a half dozen answers to account for that tape, and Lorry only caught the recording as long as he was on a big bay to the south.
Under the round white moon, the lorry was strewn with the forms of sleeping children.
On Boxing Day Purdy got the loan of a lorry and drove a large party, including several children, comfortably placed on straw, hassocks and low chairs, to the Races a few miles out.
The young head of Pemrose Lorry queened it in the darkness, with a pride which made of old Greylock, at that moment, the world's throne.
It was a wild little cry to which the Man Killer rang now, as the head of Pemrose Lorry went down upon her knees.
That was the moment when Pemrose Lorry shook as if the old Man Killer were devouring her.
We'll let Pemrose Lorry plant the tallest birch sapling in honor of the Thunder Bird.
For all the spice of her chowchow name was afire in Pemrose Lorry now; and she would have tackled the thief, single-handed, to get back her father's record.
But it was a silent ride that he and Miss Lorryhad during the rest of the time they were backing into town.
But old manLorry isn't furnishing George with the boat.
I smashed the low gear, dad, and had to come in on the reverse," Miss Lorry answered.
Young Lorry would have to be brought back to Madison, and this motor boy would have to help McGlory bring him back.
That visit of Matt, McGlory, and Lorry to the boathouse was worth all the danger it had brought, even if it had resulted in nothing more than opening Lorry's eyes to the duplicity of his supposed friend.
What has Big John done," Matt asked, "to get Mr. Lorry down on me?
Matt began with his start for Waunakee, related the attempted robbery, and the manner in which he and Ethel Lorry had backed the runabout along the Waunakee road and into Madison.
Matt was astounded to learn that an anonymous letter had made the elder Lorry so bitterly hostile.
Had Matt told Mr. Lorry where McGlory and George were waiting, the millionaire would certainly have proceeded to the place and attempted to bring George in to Madison.
Mr. Lorrystared after her, and then turned to give Matt another look.
Not seeing with precision what was very hard, Mr. Lorry shook his head; using that important part of himself as a sort of fairy cloak that would fit anything.
Mr. Lorry had not thought of that, and he looked quickly at Carton to see if it were in his mind.
It was when they turned into the welcome shade of the cool old hall, that Mr. Lorry observed a great change to have come over the Doctor; as if the golden arm uplifted there, had struck him a poisoned blow.
His manner was so fervent and inspiring, that Mr. Lorry caught the flame, and was as quick as youth.
Mr. Lorry was already calling at the door when he got there.
It was easier for Mr. Lorryto look in at Tellson's, than to look out of Tellson's.
By this time, Mr. Lorry dared to be pleasant with her, on occasion.
She saw a tight, hard, wiry woman before her, as Mr. Lorry had seen in the same figure a woman with a strong hand, in the years gone by.
It was such a curious corner in its acoustical properties, such a peculiar Ear of a place, that as Mr. Lorry stood at the open window, looking for the father and daughter whose steps he heard, he fancied they would never approach.
But, in the composure of his manner he was unaltered, except that to the shrewd glance of Mr. Lorry it disclosed some shadowy indication that the old air of avoidance and dread had lately passed over him, like a cold wind.
The men laughed a little amongst themselves, and came “all together,” and laughed again and gave little ironical cheers as the wrecked lorry slid and swayed and rolled lurching over the bank and clear of the road.
Lorry had the transfer made, or whatever you call it, yesterday in town.
Lorry left her and went into her own room to write an acceptance for herself and regrets for her sister.
There was a time when Lorry thought she couldn't bear it, had a distracted temptation to leap to her feet, say she was faint and rush from the place.
It's just that father was very particular andLorry always tries to do what he would have liked.
Then he saw her as she had been the last time and that Lorry had not passed with the rest of the procession.
As Lorry turned away she heard his desperate rejoinder: "Yes, we got it out here, but how in hell are we goin' to get it any farther?
Lorry had also decided that the world must never know just what did happen to the second Miss Alston.
Mark, scrabbling for them, saw Lorry rise and press an electric bell on the wall; she had remembered there was no water on the tray.
If Lorry wanted to walk herself to death she couldn't stop her--nobody minded what she said anyway.
A little further on, to our chagrin, we learned that a lorry had broken down on a bridge, and that if our car could not pass it, it would mean a detour of nine miles.
If a lorry gets stuck in the mud they just use enough lorries until they pull it out.
At Anguish's suggestion Lorry wrapped his handkerchief tightly about the heavy end of his cane, preparing in that way to deaden the sound of the blow that was to fall upon the Vienna man's head.
Into the coach she was drawn by the relieved old lady, who was critically inspecting her personal appearance when Lorry and the foreigner entered.
Once more Grenfall Lorry and Miss Guggenslocker were looking into each other's eyes.
After dinner that evening Lorryled the Princess out into the moonlit night.
Pushing the Princess behind the curtain and in the shelter of the door-post, Lorry leaped toward the center of the room, a pistol in each hand.
Lorry handed him her note, which he read and then solemnly shook hands with its recipient.
Lorry had turned pale and was reaching for the wall with unsteady hand.
We all regret what has happened, and I, for one, hope that Mr. Lorry may escape from the Tower and laugh forevermore at his pursuers.
Lorry had lost his bearings, and knew not whither he went, trusting to the guidance of his struggling companion.
Lorry looked first at him and then at the Princess, bewildered and uncertain.
Grenfall Lorry saw in his dreams a slim soldier with troubled face and averted, timid eyes, standing guard over him with a brave, stiff back and chin painfully uplifted.
Never had Lorry seen the moon so accursedly bright.
The Rector was speaking; but only those close to the lorry could hear his feeble treble voice.
The elephant, by the help of his two companions, was got on to a railway lorry and disappeared into the night.
Big Macphee was the man who for some months back had done the shouting for Duffy's lorry No.
Pier, perhaps long lines of troops coming down the road from the ridge, or a motor-lorry or motor-ambulance coming down to the beach.
One night in the Spring of 1918 a mysterious motor lorry drew up in the yard of the Ecole Militaire at Montreuil.
We had actually passed the lowest point of our fortunes, and within a week the motor lorry had gone.
If that motor lorry has to carry away the maps from Montreuil it may be another ten years before we beat the Germans, but we will beat them.
Motor Lorry Reserve had been built up; and it was available to rush into the breach when the railways could not face the task of supply.
That motor lorry was told off to carry away the maps and important papers from Montreuil to the coast, since the evacuation of the town and of all France north of the Somme was possible at an hour's notice.
So critical was the position for some days that that motor lorry was never off duty night or day.
Before entering Mrs. Bond's service he had, for a month, driven a lorry for a local firm of builders, and went constantly to and from London.
If Lorry were our only bugbear, our troubles would be light.
Dad will be wondering what has become of me; though I sent a message by one of Julia's maids to tell him that Lorry and I were being whisked off to Lorient in an automobile.
When aroused Lorryis a very convincing person indeed.
Then, in the morning, Yvonne and he would end an intolerable state of things by leaving Pont Aven for some unknown refuge until Lorry told them that the coast was clear.
The men were given a few days' rest--I brought them back to Fouilloy or to Querrieu Wood--and I arranged for the majority of the officers to go in turn by car or lorry to Doullens for a breath of civilisation.
That canvas orderly-room, for instance, would have been rotting in a deserted camp on the Somme if we had not sent a lorry and three stout men for it.
I obtained a lorry from the battalion, handed it over to a promising subaltern, and gave him stern instructions to return with much coal.
The train had collided with a lorry and pushed it a few hundred yards, when the last truck had been derailed and the tank on it had crushed the lorry against the slight embankment.
I completed the journey in accordance with the custom of the country, by securing a lorry lift to Bapaume, a lift in a car from Bapaume to Albert, and then walking to the camp at Meaulte.
First it was almost empty except for the lorry park near Savy, and, short of Arras, it was screened because the Germans still held the Vimy Ridge.
We still had that piano which had been taken forward in the first lorry that ever attempted the Puisieux-le-Mont road from Albert to Achiet-le-Grand after the enemy had retired in March.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lorry" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
