Then, with green and blue patches dancing across the dark, they went to the lift by which the trucks of ore and fuel and lime were raised to the top of the big cylinder.
Horrocks, he saw, stood above him by one of the trucks of fuel on the rail.
Beside me are bushes drooping with white and purple lilacs, all about me birds are warbling, and beyond and below is a panorama of sunny France through which runs a white road where American trucks go thundering by in clouds of dust.
He brought in his auto trucks and carried to the freight cars every historic object in the splendid chateau.
They are driving the munition trucks upon the streets of England and the road to France, they are sowing the fields, reaping the wheat, threshing the grain, and performing ten thousand tasks once given over to men.
The cheeks of the embrasure were driven in on the gun, and the trucks were jammed, otherwise the gun and carriage were uninjured.
There were no locomotives to haul the trucks containing stores from the base to the front, and the army transport had in great measure broken down.
Here most of them were placed upon trucks for conveyance by a railway eight miles long to Shellal, on the south side of the cataract.
A few tents were left behind, and about thirty railway trucks full of provisions and ammunition.
The artillerymen captured great numbers of enemy cannon, ammunition, food and other supplies, which the trucks gathered up and carried far to the front, where they were ready for the doughboys when they arrived.
They came with their ambulances and their trucks and they carried the poor wounded fellows back to the base hospitals.
Trucks were not allowed to go in daytime except in case of great emergency.
As soon as it was dark the supply outfits on the trucks would be lined up awaiting the word from the Military Police to go.
The enemy always had the range on the road where the trucks had to pass, and especially in exposed places and on cross-roads a man had no chance if he paused.
When the Army of Occupation was started for Germany, two Salvation Army trucks were assigned to go along with the Army.
The girls up at the front had no time for making doughnuts, so the girls back of the lines made 8000 doughnuts and sent them up by trucks for distribution.
Just before a drive, close to the front, there are always blockades of trucks going either way.
Later, of course, after long waiting, other trucks were bought and to-day there are about fifty automobiles in this service.
They were of no use there, so the Zone Major had them shipped at once to the railhead at Crepy, and got a special permit to go over with trucks and take them up to Morte Fontaine.
The Yankee trucks as they returned brought the women and children back from out of the range of shell fire, and they were filled with wonder as they heard the strange language on the tongues of their rescuers.
This man had called upon the leading farmers, and offered them a bargain, explaining that some trucks of artificial manure that he had consigned to Walton Station had been sent by mistake to Alton.
It is a wonderful sight to see them being despatched by tram at the Evesham stations, loaded sometimes loose like coals in the trucksfor the big preserving firms in the north.
V] For the disinfection of railway trucks and cattle ships, see Special Memorandum.
The captain took hold of the girl's arm just before a couple of railway trucks drawn by a horse came rolling along and hid them from the ship- keeper's sight for good.
There's those three trucks on the A siding to go to Slopsbury by the 6.
He was so near it that he could hear the shrill engine whistles, and the banging of trucks on the railway sidings echoed sharply from the neighbouring houses.
I walk them in a lea field: the first day they are put out four hours; I then give them a day to rest; turn them out again on the second day and increase the distance, and they come quite fresh out of the trucks at London.
But I have often been astonished at the recklessness of farmers buying cattle in a fair, going straight to the nearest station, and turning them into any dirty truck they can get--(when are trucks other than dirty?
We had chanced this time upon an armoured train, and the trucks which bore the cannon had remained uninjured.
Thousands of Uitlanders were flying from their homes, contenting themselves, in their hurry to get away, to stand in Kaffir or coal trucks and to expose themselves cheerfully to the fierce sun, and other elements.
Sometimes to our great chagrin we discovered that all our fighting to capture a convoy was only rewarded by the sight of empty trucks or ones loaded with hay and fodder.
But, with all this misery, we still found them full of enthusiasm, especially when the trucks in which they had to be sent on down the line were covered with Transvaal and Free State flags.
The horse was employed in shunting coal-waggons, and had just drawn four loaded trucks up to a point at which they diverged to the left, and the horse, being unhooked, ought to have turned to the right.
When the trucks reached it they pressed it down, and, the horse leaning forward, the hoof was drawn off like a glove.
One would not suppose there were so many trucks on the face of the earth.
The work, especially latterly, was mainly unloading trucks, pushing the trucks about, and packing the contents of the trucks in various stores.
City deliveries of coffee and sugar call for a fleet of thirty-five large motor trucks that are housed in the firm's own garage and kept in repair in their own shops.
Although motor trucks are fast replacing the faithful horse; and the time will never come again when Arbuckle Bros.
Pack on the ship, again, Mr. Luff, from her trucksto her ridge-ropes!
Keep the ship away, Sir, and cover her with canvas, from her trucks down.
All of their belongings were to be transported in several motor trucks, engaged for that purpose, these trucks being under orders from the battalion quartermaster.
The motor trucks had preceded them, and as the work of getting the place into shape had been proceeding for over a week, the sights to be seen were decidedly interesting.
Loftiest trucks were made for wildest winds, and this brain-truck of mine now sails amid the cloud-scud.
As to Jim, not a trace of him was found till three of the overturned and wrecked trucks had been dragged clear by the wrecking derrick.
We're on rails, as you can see, with a second track beside us that holds a spoil train, as we calls the trucksinto which we chucks the dirt.
If only he could increase the pace, if only he could add to the distance which separated him from that long line of trucks bounding after him so ruthlessly.
He cast his eye on either side, as if to seek safety there, and watched the fleeting banks of the Chagres River, bushes and trees, and abandoned French trucks speeding past.
Young man, those trucks were made by the Frenchmen.
After that he himself was overwhelmed in the catastrophe; for the remaining trucks piled themselves up on the stricken leader.
He and his staff left behind them the trucks you see, besides a large amount of other machinery.
Now we come to the Frenchmen, to Ferdinand de Lesseps," said Phineas, pointing out another group of derelict trucks to our hero.
Then, as you've seen for yourself, we move along, a few inches after every dig, filling the trucks as we go.
There wasn't enough trucksnor locomotives to begin with, and not enough tracks, so these fine diggers wasted half their time; but we've fixed it a while since.
But weight steadies a freight car, and on this occasion the leading trucks at least managed to negotiate the curve without sustaining damage.
His first shells went wild over our heads, but he got the range of the roads on which our trucks were packed, and very soon a shell struck about half a mile down the road.
He probably had, for it was the time of day when the city traffic is heaviest, and never-ending streams of motor-cars and trucks and wagons were being driven on the cross streets, as well as on the avenues.
There were a great many automobiles and horses and wagons and trucks coming off, too, and the drivers did a deal of shouting.
These devoted workers, with the aid of many Red Cross trucks that were rushed to them, helped thousands of refugees to safety.
While the farmers sat down to breakfast the roads started filling with wagons and trucks bringing the day's milk from the entire area.
The spreading itself could be a problem, especially when the earliest trucks began to be used in the mid-1920s.
Another resident, Margaret Mary Lee, explained it more tersely: "Cows and hens and milktrucks did not take holidays.
The huge structure of the locomotive was set up on the driving wheels and leading and trailing trucks by Tom's chief foreman and a picked crew.
The pilot of the electric locomotive shot over on the siding; the forward trucks followed, then the great drivers.
Tom seized the switch lever and threw it over, locking it in place, just as the forward trucks thundered upon the joint.
The wheels of the forward trucks had not left the track, but the impact of the heavy locomotive with the bumper had been so great that the latter was torn from its foundations.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trucks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
