We made a ramp of heavy wooden beams in front of the train and then we slowly pushed the iron mass into a truck.
We pushed the wheel up the rampand returned to fetch heavy coils of wire, bundles of picks and shovels, sacks and barrels of nails.
Halfway up the wall opposite, above a narrow ramp that descended between the instrument panels, a massive doorway swung wide, and in its opening a figure stood.
That, and his movements when he came slowly down the ramp toward them, conveyed a queer suggestion of weariness or weakness, as if he were yet not wholly roused from his two millenia of slumber.
It lay on a broken, steeply ascending ramp of a mountainside.
The steep ramp of the mountainside upon which we were perched sloped up and cut midway through the Empire State Building.
We could climb from our ledge up the ramp to the small area where it intersected the Empire State at the building's sixtieth to seventieth stories.
We climbed the ramp of an open grassy field, with a little cedar woods to one side, and up ahead, half a mile to the right, the dark crumbling ramparts of a little ancient fort which once was for the defense of the island.
The ramp slid back into the ship; the cargo port closed.
Linking arms, the two young Lensmen strode away toward Ramp Four, which was to be their station.
Handus was waiting for her at the foot of the ramp in an awkward crouch.
But Sria went up the ramp and crouched there, waiting, watching.
At the foot of the wall, a low clay bench about 6 inches high encircles the room and is divided into 47 seats, separated by a low ramp of clay.
The larger mound is rectangular, while the smaller is circular; but the latter is most unusual in its spiral ramp which leads counterclockwise to the top in four complete traverses about the mound.
Jordan went away and the passenger ramprose with ponderous slowness, clamping shut with metallic finality.
The passenger rampswung down and he stood boldly at the entrance, looking out.
Docchi started uncertainly down the ramp and came back.
Near the end of the ramp a large telecom had been set up.
She went slowly over the hull to the cargo ramp and while she did Jordan reeled in the viewers.
The wall opposite the ramp was badly bent where the tank had plowed into it and the storage racks were demolished.
Armed guards lined either side of the landing ramp and more platoons were in the distance.
The ship nosed up for a thousand yards and then eased back, smoothly braked, to a concrete ramp a thousand yards from the house.
Seconds later the giant shock absorbers crunched on the ramp and Tom closed the master switch cutting all power.
Then they told me of the death of an old school-fellow under the ramp of the Minhla redoubt--does any one remember the affair at Minhla that opened the third Burmese ball?
When I set foot on the first of the terraces, a tourist-trampled ramp of scabby grey stuff, I met a stream of iron-red hot water which ducked into a hole like a rabbit.
A passage ran along the outside of the boxes, with steps leading from the terrace; only every third box was connected with this passage, however, the other two of the group being entered from a narrow ramp along the front (Fig.
Here the front line was set back several feet from that of the adjoining houses on either side, and the space thus gained was given to a terrace or ramp about four feet high, mounted by steps at either end.
The elevation of the front entrance above the sidewalk and the placing of the approaches at the ends of the ramp gave the house an appearance of seclusion.
He went up a rampand across the lobby of the United Nations Administration Building.
It was almost midnight when they left the Major's office, a gloomy trio, walking silently up the ramp to the Main Concourse, heading toward the living quarters.
Then they went down a rampto a jitney-platform, and boarded a U.
He slipped open the door, and started for the ramp leading to the Main Concourse.
They were stepping off the ramp below the ship when a man loomed up out of the shadows.
They marched him up the ramp to the outer level corridor and around to No.
Twenty men and fifteen prowlers charged up the ramp as a warning siren shrieked somewhere inside the ship.
They poured out through the airlock and down the ramp, there to form in columns that marched forward as still more Gerns hurried down the ramp behind them.
One of them stopped at the foot of the ramp to watch the advance of the punitive force and give the frightened but faithful Tip the first words to transmit to Freckles: "The full force is on its way, Commander.
He shot him and ran up the rampas the officer's body rolled down it.
He backed up the ramp and ordered, "Let's get on with the work.
I'll be nailed to a table at the foot of the ramp all day making check marks.
A crew of craftsmen with their busy little power saws had constructed a sloping ship's ramp of rough planks sawed from the nearest trees.
He mounted the ramp and announced, "The emergency is reduced to a blue alert.
Without consulting Benson, Bailey mounted the ramp and shouted, "Blondes and redheads, ten minutes exposure.
As he approached the ramp I saw that his face was smooth, entirely free of hair as though clean-shaven.
Before I could fathom it Benson came charging down the ramp followed by his fruit-stowing detail.
Acting in my capacity as psychologist, I ran up the ramp and called out as calmly as a shout would permit, "Everybody take it easy!
When they reached Antacostia, a cabin plane, a navy ship, was out on the ramp waiting for them.
He got into second gear and zoomed up the ramp to the second floor.
He crossed the room to the concrete ramp that twisted up to the second story.
When they had climbed out of the Polaris and stepped on the landing ramp at Marsport, Connel and Tom saw that the ground crews were already checking over the afterburners and exhaust tubes of the ship.
Connel walked back to the outside of the hangar and began bellowing orders for the giant ship to be brought out to the blast ramp and prepared for the blast-off.
We'll go up that ramplike a fast ship plowing through waves.
Tedric shouted, and his youthful squire rushed up the ramp with his axe and hammer.
The mercenaries did not flow over the sides of the ramp in two smooth waves.
VII Nurse Gloria Farrow waved at me from the ramp of the jetliner, and I ran forward to collect her baggage.
The van behind me nudged us up the ramp and we hurtled forward against a thick, resilient pad that stopped my car without any damage either to the car or to the inhabitants.
They descended (or rather, floated) down the ramp and stopped less than three feet from the boy.
A rampunfolded to reveal two equally shimmering space beings.
Craig descended the ramp from the huge jet and concentrated on his impressions.
Craig turned to face a line of his fellow passengers up the ramp behind him.
A narrow ridge formed a natural ramp that led up the steep face of the crag.
He went down the ramp as swiftly as an ape, pausing only to aid his less agile companion, who, until she saw the Cimmerian climb, had fancied herself the equal of any man in the rigging of a ship or on the sheer face of a cliff.
He hurried down the natural ramp and she followed, their personal feud forgotten in the adventurers' instinct to unite against common peril.
And she had had two rooms thrown into one so as to give Owen's long legs space to ramp up and down in.
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.
Illustration] The bent plate made a natural ramp down which he slid the crate onto the gravity-fluxed deck.
Malone said: "Oog," replaced the man on his own feet and looked past him at the group on the landing ramp outside.
A little less than an hour later, Malone sat on the steps of the landing ramp that led up to the open door of the big Air Force transport plane on the runway.
Down the slanting ramp they went to the ravine floor and moved out across the shining level, treading the gold vein like rope-walkers.
The gold vein followed a narrow ramp which slanted down into the ravine, fitted with niches for hand and foot hold.
When he toiled up the farther ramp and came out upon the crest, he breathed a gusty sigh of relief and stood Yasmina upon her feet.
The vein crawled up a similar ramp on the other wall up which the acolytes had disappeared, and up it they went with taut nerves, not knowing what might be waiting for them among the jutting spurs of rock that fanged the lip of the precipice.
I found that Vaughn had let one man in onto the ramp that he hadn't included in his report the next day.
Area between the entrance to the garage at the bottom of the Commerce Street ramp and the portion where the Main Street rampnarrows at the bottom, or widens out at the bottom?
Well, I just got out there by the ramp and just stood there.
While you were in the basement, were you in the garage and ramparea the entire time?
Do you recall or would you have been in a position to see whether the armored car was actually in the ramp when you arrived on the scene?
It was, when the officers were sent to the ramp area prior to Oswald being brought down, there were officers stationed on both sides of the ramp.
I took up a position in the ramp area here and assisted with getting the newsmen on the east side of the ramp.
And you can see Commerce Street over here and Main Street here and the garage area here and the Main Street ramp going down and the Commerce Street ramp going up, and this shows a solid wall along Commerce Street here.
Now, as the two police cars moved into position on the Commerce Street ramp behind the armored car, what happened, what did you see happen and what did you do?
