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    1. crane their necks around corners


    2. Picking the Wings off Crane Flies


    3. years old, delighted in picking the legs off crane flies to see if they


    4. he realised that the flies were wingless, legless crane flies, but


    5. The crane of the truck was extended toward the


    6. As he continued to crane his neck


    7. Adrien drove the first crane hauling four flatbed trailers that carried shipping containers with the air compressor trailing behind


    8. The crane was buried up to its bumper in a pothole and could not back up


    9. They tried the jack but couldn’t get it under the vehicle so they used the other crane to lift its stranded mate


    10. The crane operators appeared to be the most

    11. of the dismantled crane had already been completed


    12. conditioned to a high level of strength, most attacks using the Crane technique


    13. A tired and hungry group gathered in a disused drying yard; Crane, Harding, Davis, Burr, Mcintosh, Hare, Glackens, and myself


    14. on the crane over the fire, where the onion soup for supper was now


    15. Constable Bronson Nesbitt said police were notified by parents, and guided to the spot by 12-year old Nicky Crane


    16. It wasn’t until he had eaten cold, greasy fried chicken with equally slimy fries and drank cold coffee from a soggy cardboard cup, that the barge was docked, workmen climbed aboard and guided cables from an overhead crane around the girth of the gargantuan logs


    17. Atop the crane, the operator made his way down the long ladder, then walked from the yard with his co-workers


    18. He reappeared moments later, scaling the long ladder up one leg of the crane


    19. Guiding loops of cable that slowly descended from the crane, she had a perky manner he warmed to, and a likeable smile when she jauntily waved ‘all clear’


    20. “You’re going to be a lot of help and save me from climbing up and down the crane half the night

    21. Then it was done: the crane operator doused its lights, clambered down, the truck and forklifts were parked, and eight men filed into the building


    22. The man then made his way to the pier, up onto the crane, and lowered its cables for the woman to secure around the object hidden in the recess


    23. Up on the crane, the access door to the cab opened, the man emerged and began to descend its long ladder


    24. I crane my neck to see the windows above street level


    25. 7 Yes, the stork in the Heaven knows her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of


    26. still could be so holy as a white crane


    27. “I’ll have to use a crane to lift


    28. maneuvered the small crane that was mounted in the rear over the top and lowered the


    29. a crane building over the remains of Unit Four, with a crane big enough to lift the one


    30. But I saw a crane as great as 4 great oxen; and all the birds were great beyond those in the world; and I asked the angel, What 5 is the

    31. The small crane is in place and we are ready to transport her


    32. These overhauls could take as long as several years and involved a refueling whereby the spent reactor core was removed by crane, placed on a flat bed rail car, and returned to Westinghouse/ Bettis outside of Pittsburgh


    33. He stood taller than the top of the door mantle giving her a need to crane her neck in order for her to be able to look him in the eyes


    34. 1 And when I had learnt all these things from the archangel he took and led me into a fourth 2 3 Heaven; And I saw a monotonous plain and in the middle of it a pool of water; And there were in it multitudes of birds of all kinds but not like those here on Earth; But I saw a crane as great as 4 great oxen; and all the birds were great beyond those in the world; and I asked the angel What 5 is the plain and what the pool and what the multitudes of birds around it? And the angel said Listen Baruch : The plain which contains in it the pool and other wonders is the place where the 6 souls of the righteous come when they hold converse living together in choirs; But the water is 7 that which the clouds receive and rain on the Earth and the fruits increase; And I said again to the angel of the Lord But what are these birds? And he said to me They are those which 8 continually sing praise to the Lord; And I said Lord and how do men say that the water which 9 descends in rain is from the sea? And the angel said The water which descends in rain; This also is (ascending) from the sea and from the waters on Earth; but that which stimulates the fruits is only from 10 the latter source


    35. "He's alive," the Chief shouted, "where's that crane?"


    36. " He didn't want to add that under the twisting movement when the crane lifted the plane, anything could happen


    37. See, the crane is here


    38. " He pointed down the runway as the giant yellow crane lumbered into view through the rain like a prehistoric monster


    39. They watched the men detach the sling, and wrap the chains from the crane around each main landing gear


    40. Crane and I are collaborating into testing our theories in computer

    41. And, yes, it was like shaking the leg of a crane with your hand


    42. Professor Crane looked like he was about two hundred years old,


    43. Professor Crane stopped me from doing that when he suddenly


    44. Professor Crane convinced me that name calling is the sign of


    45. way a real crane would jump when he spears his favorite fish or


    46. So, I got Professor Crane to help me and, of course, that nosy sister


    47. “Einstein never said that,” Professor Crane said


    48. she hugged me and shook hands with Professor Crane, whose


    49. Lope and Professor Crane were in the control room of the


    50. Crane told me that it was rumored that Schrodinger had said in











































    1. Book shelves covered three walls with doorways let into them here and there; a young woman stood apparently wrapt in the volume she was reading, a thirty-something man with a large backpack at his feet scanned the shelf above his head, neck craned, lips muttering silently as he concentrated


    2. worst of the tumult, and craned his neck to peer over the


    3. He craned his neck to look at Mr Black


    4. Brice craned his neck upwards as their raft drifted closer, noting how the spire high atop the keep sparkled in the presence of the sun


    5. rather what was it because its just sped past up there?" Lemoss craned his neck through the kitchen door


    6. "They are seeking another way in," she replied to the wide-eyed young girl, then quickly craned her neck upwards


    7. Glowering at the falling shapes, he craned his neck to the sky and when the heavens glowed beneath a series of bursts, he noted with anger and disgust that the number of specks floating above had greatly diminished since the last time he looked


    8. craned my neck and saw that they were running after two short,


    9. “What? Who do you mean? Who else have you brought me?” Carius craned his neck to look toward the camp’s edge, to eye the stranger he had not yet seen


    10. Clodius’ recurring smirk lapsed into a quizzical glance, and he craned his neck to attempt to read across the table

    11. Heads turned throughout the cabin as people craned their necks to see what the disturbance was


    12. He craned his neck but he could only see the top of her head over the sill


    13. Amaranthe craned her neck back


    14. Not only did I dodge that knife, but I actually craned my neck backwards in a graceful move, with the knife missing me by no more than an inch, then thrusting the table away with my legs


    15. He craned his neck as if the air had a strange scent about it, something intangible but yet evident all around them


    16. “Hey, I think Bruce just pulled over,” Nick interrupted, as he craned his head up to the rearview mirror


    17. genuine and craned her neck to take in the view outside


    18. Suzy dropped what she was doing and ran over to Jack and held on to him whilst she craned to listen to the conversation


    19. Harry craned his body to look at the people around him as he desperately tried to think who it could be; he had a lot of enemies


    20. He craned his neck to look at the hole in the right side of his tabard where Mike’s sword had gone through

    21. Lorna craned her head again to see outside but they were still above the thick cloud-cover, yet she kept on looking, anxious to catch a glimpse of England from the air


    22. craned back as far as he could to keep mouth and nose out of the sand


    23. He then craned his neck to look up at Helena Everett


    24. He craned his neck at


    25. Most of them craned their necks to watch him—a few waved


    26. lap as she craned her neck to see up and down the street


    27. About halfway to his destination, he craned his neck to see two Rotham crewmembers on the ladders on the opposite side, several decks above


    28. The dog’s middle head craned toward us


    29. The wyrm craned its body


    30. She craned her head upward toward the sun, letting it bathe

    31. I craned my neck around and saw him slumped on my back, barely holding on


    32. She did not go to the great gate, beneath whose arch men leaned on spears and craned their necks into the darkness, discussing the unwonted activity about the fortress


    33. The black craned his neck to stare into the starlit road behind Conan; but he opened the gate without comment, and closed it again behind the Cimmerian, locking and bolting it


    34. He craned his neck to stare into the Cimmerian's face


    35. Conan, life sluggishly moving in his veins again, craned his neck from the chariot floor to view the wonders of this city which men called the Queen of the South


    36. Joe Billie stiffened at the sound but settled back on his heels while his reluctant audience craned their necks in an effort to make out the two raccoons scampering around the base of their den tree


    37. She leaned forward and I craned my neck up to meet her


    38. He kept down, but craned his neck around to watch


    39. reached the peripheral boundary of the forested area I craned my


    40. craned my neck to see what was happening

    41. As they neared the Seabelle, Will craned his head back and called out to the


    42. Worse yet, when my neck was craned through the cage bars I took


    43. The man of God was calm; he only craned


    44. “When you left me at the golf course I watched Cecil’s door for three hours nothing happened and I’d almost finished my book of crosswords when suddenly there was a wailing of sirens coming closer and closer and even though I hadn’t done anything I began to shrink into my seat thinking they were coming for me, the siren’s belonged to an ambulance that pulled up at Cecil’s house, over the next five minutes quite a crowd had gathered around the ambulance so I joined them, it wasn’t until another ten minutes had passed that the door opened and everyone craned their necks to see who was on the gurney being pushed around to the back of the ambulance, Ted and his mother were either side of the stretcher that carried a very pale Cecil, when Ted, mum and Cecil sped away to hospital I asked one of the neighbours which hospital they would take Cecil to and she replied ”The same as last time, love, the Royal, they’re awful good with heart attacks at the Royal, that’s were I want to go when I have my first heart attack


    45. When I described the battle with the two warriors, the children couldn’t get enough of the story, but a couple of warriors at the back, obviously thinking I was padding the story for the children’s benefit, began to shuffle their feet so I thought this an opportune moment to present my back pack, all heads craned forwards as I slowly and deliberately untied my treasures and spread the Mixtec weapons and regalia on the tables, not a sound escaped the crowd for an age, then they all started talking at the same time and everyone crowded around to look, feel, and wonder at such mighty trophies, Jodas stepped forward and took command, ordering lines to be formed to view the treasure, there was a respectful look in his eye as he bowed to Coatl, seeing him bow, all the village started to bow as they passed by Coatl, I could see Coatl was overcome with embarrassment, even so I detected that he enjoyed the notoriety, the warriors, as was right, kept an aloof air about them, they were not professional soldiers nevertheless they were quick and brave and were proud of the fighting skills needed in the defence of their village, when times were quiet they would be seen tending to their different trades, ready to fight when circumstances demanded, one of the warriors approached the priest and asked permission to see a demonstration of Coatl’s skill so that they may look and learn, I was horrified at this as I remembered the reaction that would be forthcoming from any implied threat to the white hairy man, I begged the priest to be cautious because Coatl did not yet know our language, the priest smiled and putting his arm about Coatl’s shoulder steered him through the crowd out into the square all the time talking to him in a low even voice, all the people turned to watch this strange man and their priest as they strolled to the centre of the plaza, both squatted and began making signs in the sandy floor, Wedon talked a moment longer, then returning to the table where the trophies were on display, he turned to the crowd of villagers and said


    46. He was stunned by my approach, whatever he had expected from me, wasn’t what he was getting, he stammered his apology and began to chant the first song of the ceremony, the drums reached a crescendo and the crowd began to chant in time to the rhythm, the holiday mood had returned to the village, Yaotl sacrificed a variety of birds, animals and snakes, and as the finale his slaves finally brought out a mountain lion in a cage, everyone craned their necks for a better look at the beast as it spat and snarled and threw it’s body against the cage, I remembered the last time Yaotl had made such an extravagant sacrifice during a drought two summers ago, I didn’t want to seem small and mean, but the cat that Yaotl had sacrificed that day, looked exactly like that cat in the cage, so I watched the sacrifice closely, one of the slaves put a bowl of water in the cage which the cat drank with relish, it had obviously been kept without water for a few days, after the cat drank, it stopped spitting and snarling and the same slave opened the gate put a collar on the cat and led it to the chacmool it jumped up onto the slab and Yaotl began to make signs all over it, to everyone’s astonishment it then lay down on the altar, Yaotl raised his obsidian knife and with one stroke drove it into the breast of the beast, after a moment he held up the heart, blood running down his arms, I could not find fault with the sacrifice, maybe I was wrong, maybe it wasn’t the same cat, the sacrifice had the desired affect on the villagers who were all dancing about and singing, two slaves dragged the carcass into the temple building, the priest ceremoniously washed the blood from his arms and chest donned his official robe and slowly descended the temple steps, at the bottom he flung himself to the ground and said


    47. The entire school craned their necks to catch a glimpse of the boy who had plugged the iguana


    48. Heads bobbed and craned, twisting to catch the direction


    49. Mosh thumbed his lips and craned his head sideways to lock onto the screen, all


    50. craned her head and stood up, her hair haloed by the swathe of light above the














































    1. The rusting cranes and conveyor belts in the water made a challenging obstacle course


    2. John cranes his neck to see what the hell is going on


    3. He slows, cranes his neck as another SUV zips past in the lane in which he was just traveling


    4. I shall drive and operate one of the cranes and will run the anvil, the large metal cutter on one of the excavators


    5. Leave the cranes where they are and pin the Albatross in place with the excavators while we secure the engines


    6. Cranes migrate here too


    7. finally saw the harbour cranes of Arles appear on the


    8. mostly human, but the numerous cranes testified to the


    9. of them were so up, that needed cranes to put


    10. He puts his hands against the wall and cranes his neck around the corner

    11. Through the windows he counted cranes,


    12. tall construction cranes, some with a fixed


    13. be read from counting cranes, or at least the


    14. “They have seaplane tenders, with cranes and a hangar on the back,” I said


    15. cranes of enormous size sat lifelessly throughout the space, their


    16. and the sky-scraping industrial cranes of the under-construction


    17. highway, large cranes waited motionless in the vacant


    18. Chris cranes his neck to the clock above the white marble fireplace


    19. Here and there new buildings were under construction, facilitated by the latest construction cranes and machines which had been invented expressly for this kind of a job


    20. "You'd need a small army plus cranes, fork-lifts and transporters

    21. They needed to attach the wings without the use of the heavy construction cranes normally used to lift them


    22. He could also see a few cranes at the side, that were used to unload the ships, and a long cargo ship moored nearby


    23. The docks were little more than a stone wharf with warehouses behind and a few cranes busy unloading barrels of stock and crates of fish off the incumbent ships


    24. Simian now, a driven man, used one of the cranes on the ship to lower granite blocks down, one on top of the other


    25. Fixed cranes alongside railway tracks, with grain silos across from them, dotted the shoreline, but the ships at the jetty were like the smaller Great Lakes carriers


    26. “The Farmer and the Cranes


    27. I remember the huge cranes that I pretended were dinosaurs


    28. ―Wolf, firefighters are working tirelessly with cranes and backhoes to remove the debris in an attempt to rescue anyone who may still be in the church, but the Fire Marshall told me moments ago that due to the power of the explosives used, the chances of anyone surviving are slim


    29. with two cranes for unloading


    30. Behind the cranes two large doors opened out under an awning

    31. I woke up when the herd of cattle were returning to cowshed and the flock of white cranes were returning to their nests and the birds were started their usual broodings in the nearby tall bamboo trees


    32. He cranes his head out the door


    33. Captain Blitner cranes his neck to look at the time, then brushes his fingers on a napkin


    34. Amy cranes her neck for a better view, but Loki says, “Keep driving


    35. I have never seen so many construction cranes


    36. The next few days, he turns his wondrous gaze toward the passing miles of salty marshes littered with pelicans, cranes, and swooping storks


    37. were cranes; dump trucks, backhoes and bulldozers scattered all about


    38. Cranes stood idle whilst dockers fished from the quays


    39. Maximus cranes his neck around to unleash a glare


    40. He cranes his neck around to give her a sideways look

    41. Long gone were the machines of legends, of dirigibles and steam-powered planes and cranes


    42. The pilot banked the aircraft and the airman pointed out to Pon the large build up of heavy machinery, bulldozers, road-rollers and cranes


    43. Its alarm clock was the sound of petrodollars clinking as they poured into its coffers and the evidence of this arousal were the huge cranes erecting, here and there, multi-storied buildings


    44. She was about fifty feet away from the first of three deck cranes, standing in the shadows just beyond the light


    45. Don't you think that with all the mechanical contrivances, with all the generated power on board these ships, it is about time to get rid of the hundred-years-old, man-power appliances? Cranes are what is wanted; low, compact cranes with adjustable heads, one to each set of six or nine boats


    46. The heads of the cranes need not be any higher than the heads of the davits


    47. floating cranes and hoists needed to move the heavy stones into position in midstream


    48. Crumbling brick warehouses, oil storage tanks, rusting cranes, and gritty factories lined both sides of the waterway


    49. Steam shovels and electric shovels clawed at piles of loose rock; bulldozers pushed earth and rocks from one place to another; Caterpillar diesel tractors crawled back and forth, gouging out terraces; enormous Mack AP Super-Duty dump trucks labored up rough roads leading out of the canyon, carrying boulders the size of automobiles; front loaders scooped up more boulders and dropped them in side-dump trucks that carried them to conveyors; tall cranes swung steel sheets out over the water, where pile drivers emitting white puffs of steam sat on barges, pounding them into the riverbed


    50. Before we left they presented us with a precious gift of a Senbazuru, a thousand paper cranes held together by string





















    1. Then we turned out of the narrow alleyway into the square where, to my complete amazement, I saw it absolutely crammed with hundreds of pilgrims who had flocked there for the next part of the festival, all craning and straining to see what they could of the annual procession and the ritual on the plateia


    2. ‘Do you reckon that’s a real fire or one of those gas imitations?’ he asked craning his neck to see if he can work it out


    3. "What are you talking about?" Tetloan said, craning his neck upwards, seeking the source of Emily's anger


    4. this outer crust who, despite being on their toes and craning their


    5. Craning back to see, she caught a glimpse of the thing


    6. The freak was craning his head back to watch him, but continued moving out the door


    7. Craning his neck, Jack could feel the power of the stones overwhelming him


    8. Turning around and craning my neck, I could see the dormered windows of the servant’s quarters, high up over the crenellated fake battlements


    9. Craning and twisting my neck on its socket, I searched the sky


    10. As soon as he cleared the door, he plopped his bags to the floor directly in front of the doorway and began scanning the throng behind the barriers, all craning their necks for a first glimpse of whomever they waited for to come out of the arrivals gate

    11. dow, craning to see the cause of the commotion


    12. Which one might be el Tiburón Limon? He removed the flashlight from the glove box and walked onto the pier, craning his neck and directing the beam of light to the name on each boat


    13. Craning at the neck, he was unaware that he looked like a hick in a big city for the first time


    14. The boy was a heart-tearing reminder of his father, even from the way he stretched when he fell asleep kindly, craning his neck before it settled cosily on her chest


    15. As he struggled to get back on his feet, his eyes caught the jarred glimpses of pure panic: mothers screaming and dragging their children alongside with them, men craning their necks to find the next trail or engine exhaust in the night sky


    16. was stretched high, craning around the head in front of them to


    17. things easy for Gianni by craning his neck, opening his mouth wide, looking over his shoulder, and beginning to react


    18. Craning his scrawny chicken neck, Edwin reached up and clamped his beak around Zach’s nose


    19. off the seat and craning her neck, leaning toward the window to watch Dave as he headed


    20. “That’s nice, dear,” her mother said, craning her neck to watch the ambulances

    21. I gawked, craning my neck from side to side as we flew above the capital on Connacher’s condorla


    22. Crouching, he ran across the cabin, leaned against the wall, and craning his neck, peered out


    23. This craning of the neck is often perceived as admiration


    24. � Craning her neck past the guard seated to her right, she saw with a sinking feeling that the guards in front of the building were soldiers of the Waffen-SS


    25. beginning to stand up – craning to see what was happening


    26. Craning his neck so he could watch the insects, Ben used his free hand and wiped away a blue oozing slime off his chest where the insect had tried to sting him without a stinger


    27. “Hm,” I intoned, craning my neck to get a look at what he was showing interest in, an action game I disapproved of


    28. Craning his head over his


    29. Melanie stood behind him, craning her head to see over his powerful square shoulders


    30. Johnson said, craning her neck to see it pass by her window

    31. "Funny," she said, after craning her neck to peer, peering so thoroughly that it even included behind the writing-table


    32. “Something interesting over there?” Adam asked, craning his own neck


    33. Craning his neck, he peeked through the heater vent grate


    34. “Did you see that?” Grue asked, craning to see through the gate to the far end of the busted out fence


    35. They passed Weimar; and she was of an intemperate zeal on the subject of Goethe, putting down the window and craning out to look and quoting _Kennst Du das Land wo die Citrone blüht_--quoting to him, who loathed quotations even in cool weather


    36. He examined the outfits and the price tags, showing no sign of paying any attention to the young Chinese man in jeans and matching jacket who hurried through, craning his neck as he tried to peer over the heads of those moving towards the rear of the store


    37. Her own mother stood silent, unmoving as she stared into the distance, her head craning to see over and past those pressing beside her


    38. craning to see everything she could on the way up


    39. Every soldier in this command is craning their head towards the border in order to be the first to see the enemy coming


    40. Presently Morel got up and came craning his neck towards her

    41. Round the wild, tussocky lawn at the back of the house was a thorn hedge, under which daffodils were craning forward from among their sheaves of grey-green blades


    42. ” Thomas headed to the right, craning his neck to look high up at the wall, searching along the thick vines until he found the spot where Alby hung by his arms and legs far above them


    43. Gabriel was about to ask his aunt some questions on this point, but she broke off suddenly to gaze after her sister, who had wandered down the stairs and was craning her neck over the banisters


    44. The room is so quiet that you can actually hear that ringing sound that absolute silence produces, everyone craning forward, eagerly awaiting the next words that will come from the mouth of this witness—even the judge, peering over his glasses at the witness stand, his brow furrowed, his lips pursed


    45. Craning over the mountainous control panel, the pilot had a panoramic view of his plane’s snout and not much else


    46. Olsen taught his how-to-catch-a-rich-husband class in his condo in Veer Towers, the residential complex composed of two buildings, each thirty-seven floors of modern luxury encased in glass and golden panels, their tops craning outward, so that neither building would interfere with the other’s view of the Las Vegas cityscape


    47. Then she went up to a gentleman with glossy pomaded hair parted down the center, who was stretching across the footlights holding out something to her, and all the public in the stalls as well as in the boxes was in excitement, craning forward, shouting and clapping


    48. "Looks like a guinea puzzle competition," remarked Lord John, craning his neck to have a look at it


    49. It was almost as if he overdid his courtesy because his bowed and a craning of necks from the ladies in the corner


    50. Each time it stopped I slowed on the brakes, craning to see if Coombs had jumped off












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