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  • The entire carton may then be lifted from the skids.

  • If external damage is noted, open the carton and inspect for damage to equipment.

  • The cellophane window in the side of the carton gave us an excellent view of our prisoner.

  • Interrupted in his pilfering, he at first tried to get out of the carton but, finding no exit, returned to stuffing his cheek pouches with more rice.

  • On his return trip we waited until he had entered the carton and then clapped a dishtowel over the hole.

  • We found that our visitor had entered the grub box and gnawed a neat hole in the top of a carton of rice.

  • And after that more trials were in store, for Willie Carton brought his patient presence out under the elm-tree which had promised so well and performed so badly, and lay on the grass and pretended to read a book.

  • At lunch again there were, when she appeared, two vacant places, one between Willie Carton and one of the cats, the other next Lord Lindfield.

  • All the private history she gave me was that Willie Carton still wanted to marry her, and she still did not want to marry him.

  • Could it be that he was playing a game with Carton and had given him a double cross?

  • Even cocaine doesn't destroy the interest of men and women in that," he concluded, turning over to Carton the wealth which Haddon had amassed as one of the meanest grafters of the city of graft.

  • It seems that he found in his office a package exactly like that which was sent to Carton earlier in the day.

  • Besides, Carton needs both of them in his fight.

  • It was toward the close of the afternoon that Carton called up hurriedly.

  • Carton nodded, for it was that that had excited his suspicion in the first place.

  • I knew something already of the situation, and Carton continued thoughtfully: "All the powers of vice are fighting a last-ditch battle against me now.

  • A moment later Carton had telephoned to the Mayfair and had found Haddon.

  • I blurted out when I found my voice, then, suddenly recollecting the political and legal fight that Carton was engaged in at the time, I added, "The white slavers?

  • Perhaps a quarter of an hour later, Carton himself deposited the package on the laboratory table with an air of relief.

  • Clothed, and as much in my right mind as possible after the arduous literary labours of the night before, I needed no urging, for Carton was an old friend of all the newspaper men.

  • Half an hour later Kennedy and I sauntered into the Prince Henry, where Carton had made the appointment in order to avoid suspicion that might arise if he were seen with Haddon at the Mayfair.

  • Besides, anything that concerned Carton was of the highest political significance.

  • A carton of crackers, a box of caramels, six oranges and two unidentified articles descended to the flagging.

  • Jimmy had a badly wrapped parcel under one arm from which protruded the label of what was, for all the world to know, a carton of biscuits of a popular and well advertised brand.

  • Did the sack appear to be as long as that book carton was?

  • Now there was a book carton located, one standing by itself in that picture--it would be located northeast of the pipes.

  • There was an empty spot there and this one particular carton was sitting on it there.

  • It was customary for us to ship these rifles with scopes attached in a corrugated cardboard carton made for us by the Rudd Container Corporation of Chicago.

  • Yes; we did furnish a sample of the carton together with the type of sealing tape that was generally used and such craft paper that may have been used for inner cushioning packing.

  • The carton was open, I believe, and I saw it.

  • Two small boxes with Roller books on the side of the carton were stacked near the east side of the window.

  • About how long would that carton be in size, if you know?

  • There was also a carton of books where they found some handprints and they cut a piece out of the top; do you remember that?

  • They were placed back in the carton and Mr. Caster carried them out of the lobby door with him.

  • And do you know how many guns or rifles would have been packed in each carton or case?

  • Now, you are reading from the carton containing that microfilm.

  • I put them back in the carton and carried them up to my office.

  • Carton called quietly to the turnkey, who looked in and went again as Carton was putting the paper in Darnay's breast.

  • Stryver never had a case in hand but what Carton was there, with his hands in his pockets, staring at the ceiling.

  • At last it began to get about that, although Sydney Carton would never be a lion, he was an amazingly good jackal, and that he rendered service to Stryver in that humble capacity.

  • On a day shortly before the marriage, while Lucie was sitting at her work alone, Sydney Carton entered.

  • After Darnay had gone, Carton drank and slept till ten o'clock, and then walked to the chambers of Mr. Stryver.

  • Carton drank the toast, and flung his glass over his shoulder against the wall, where it shivered in pieces.

  • Carton stood next day in an obscure corner among the crowd when Charles Evrémonde, called Darnay, appeared again before the judges.

  • Carton turned to the couch where Lucie lay unconscious, prostrated with utter grief.

  • Everybody had been struck with the extraordinary resemblance, cleverly used by the defending counsel to confound a witness, between Mr. Carton and Mr. Darnay.

  • Climbing to a high chamber in a well of houses, Carton threw himself down in his clothes on a neglected bed.

  • The door closed, and Carton was left alone.

  • Now your dinner is done," Carton presently said, "why don't you give your toast?

  • Mr. Carton was shabbily dressed, and did not appear to be quite sober.

  • This carton (showing a mailing container) is a 2-pound carton which I used in shipping in response to mail orders.

  • Little Carton Street, Westminster, I found to be a seedy sort of place--one of those old streets that have seen much better days.

  • While the label on the bottle named “phytolaccin” as one of the constituents the label on the carton which contained the bottle gave “decandrin.

  • The results of the examination follow: Wheeler’s Nerve Vitalizer was packed in a carton bearing the name of the preparation, its manufacturers, “The J.

  • On the way in I ran into Madame Carton de Wiart, wife of the Minister of Justice, who was there to do what she could to make things run smoothly.

  • Carton de Wiart, the Minister of Justice, forgetting all about the requirements of the protocol that I should make the first call upon them, came flying around to see if I had any news of their families.

  • I had exhibited the full carton of sausage and told him as much as I thought necessary.

  • We then made him accompany us down to his plant, unlock his cold storage house and there we left the barrel in his charge to preserve as evidence, after I had filled a full carton for further use that night.

  • His master, who hired him, was the lion; Carton was content, through his own indolence and lack of purpose, to be the jackal.

  • Pretending that he wished him to write something that he dictated, Carton stood over him and held the phial of the drug to his face.

  • Darnay was seated, writing a last letter to Lucie, when Carton entered.

  • The latter had made up her mind, as Carton had suspected, to denounce Lucie also.

  • Carton had, in fact, formed a desperate plan to rescue Lucie's husband, whom he so much resembled in face and figure, even though it meant his own death.

  • As Carton walked along the street thinking sadly of Lucie's new grief, he saw a man whose face and figure seemed familiar.

  • Carton, who was well aware of this, threatened the spy with his knowledge and made him swear that if worst came to worst and Darnay were condemned, he would admit Carton to the cell to see him once before he was taken to execution.

  • Sometimes Darnay, Sydney Carton and Mr. Lorry would meet there together, but of them all, Darnay came oftenest, and soon it was easy to see that he was in love with Lucie.

  • Mr. Lorry came from the bank oftener to tea and Sydney Carton more rarely, and their life was peaceful and content.

  • Not long after the unconscious Darnay, with Lucie and Doctor Manette, passed the gates of Paris, the jailer came to the cell where Sydney Carton sat and called him.

  • Why Carton asked this Barsad could not guess, but to save himself he had to promise.

  • Then Carton changed clothes with him and called in the spy, directing him to take the unconscious man, who now seemed to be Sydney Carton instead of Charles Darnay, to Mr. Lorry's house.

  • Put a big "X" on the carton behind which it was found.

  • You have marked an "X" on the carton--between that carton and the wall the clipboard was found.

  • Mary Carton was locking the harmonium as he went in.

  • Wandering among these memories a footstep went to and fro continually and the figure of Mary Carton moved among them like a phantom.

  • It was the forenoon, and he made for the Imperial Hotel to wait till four in the evening, when he would find Mary Carton in the schoolhouse, for he had timed his journey so as to arrive on Thursday, the day of the children’s practice.

  • More and more did he leave all things to his children—to Mary Carton and her younger sisters.

  • Before this it had not occurred to him that Mary Carton had any stronger feeling for him than warm friendship.

  • Oh, he might do very well,” she answered, “for one of those Carton girls at the rectory.

  • He saw the figure of Mary Carton perpetually passing through a round of monotonous duties.

  • Sherman recalled how in this room he and Mary Carton had sat in winter by the fire, building castles in the air for each other.

  • He began to feel very desolate, and commenced a letter to Mary Carton in his notebook to state this fact.

  • My name is Carton Standish, and I lodged with you just a year ago the six hundred pounds which I had saved for my wife and child.

  • If I had wished to be revenged I would have let him marry and find out afterwards that she was the daughter of Carton Standish," cried Agnes, as she lay awake through the hours of that long night.

  • I will tell her that she is the daughter of Carton Standish; and then, if she chooses to marry you, she will do so with her eyes open.

  • She is the daughter of Carton Standish, who killed your brother.

  • Carton de Wiart, Chief of the Mission, who is the Belgian Minister of Justice;= =M.

  • Carton de Wiart, during which he unfolded to me many frightful details, and “=These abominable crimes against humanity and civilization call for condign reprobation in the face of the civilized world.

  • Carton declared his eternal devotion to Lucy, in words that were scarcely Dickensian.

  • The part where Carton rescues D'Arnay and changes places with him, important climax though it is in the book, was omitted by the dramatist, because it had no opportunity for Isabelle.

  • At the climax, just when Sidney Carton was to make his dramatic entrance into the story, it was discovered that Tommy had not his shoe.

  • The moment came when the striking resemblance between D'Arnay and Carton is pointed out by Lucy.

  • Carton sat up and lifted a red and angry face toward her.

  • Without looking at them, Ernie selected a plate of frankfurters and spaghetti, picked up a carton of milk for the sake of his stomach, and sat down at the nearest table.

  • He swallowed and opened his carton of milk.

  • The palm did not touch the carton at that point?

  • The piece of carton referred to was marked commission exhibit no.

  • Did you identify any of the prints on the carton 648 as belonging to a specific individual?

  • Again I believe it does indicate that at least the 10 Rolling Reader carton was moved.

  • I now hand you what appears to be a portion of a cardboard carton and a piece of tape with various writings, included among which is "From top of box Oswald apparently sat on to fire gun.

  • Now, therefore, to recapitulate: You found on this carton 641 the left palmprint and the right index fingerprint of Lee Harvey Oswald?

  • So that you can touch a carton at one point and leave a print, and at another point not, is that right?

  • Mr. Latona, can you tell us what portion of the palm of Lee Harvey Oswald is reproduced on this box, this carton 641, as a latent print?

  • If there are no further questions on the carton 641 I will move on to another exhibit.

  • Mr. Latona, did you find any identifiable prints on the cardboard carton 648?

  • Carton de Wiart, the wife of the Minister of Justice, and our brave Chasseurs of the mounted Civic Guard at their head, provided hot drinks and refreshments for the four thousand Germans leaving Belgium who were assembled at the Royal Circus.


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