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  • I was at the station one night when that carnivals fleet of flatbed trucks came rumbling off the highway in a procession, hauling these big canvas-wrapped loads to the old state fairgrounds, at the other end of town.

    Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos 2008

  • I was at the station one night when that carnivals fleet of flatbed trucks came rumbling off the highway in a procession, hauling these big canvas-wrapped loads to the old state fairgrounds, at the other end of town.

    Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos 2008

  • I was at the station one night when that carnivals fleet of flatbed trucks came rumbling off the highway in a procession, hauling these big canvas-wrapped loads to the old state fairgrounds, at the other end of town.

    Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos 2008

  • Hodgson and the other pallbearers were using great care in lowering the pallet with Irving's canvas-wrapped body to the ropes held in place above the shallow hole by some of the healthier seamen.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • We buried the Esquimaux man sometime around one-thirty in the morning — three bells — shoving his canvas-wrapped body down the narrow fire hole in the ice only twenty yards from the ship.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • Lieutenant John Irving would be just another canvas-wrapped corpse for Terror's Dead Room.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • He'd come earlier in the day, bringing a canvas-wrapped bundle containing several muskets for Jamie.

    A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

  • He had sat at that shrouded desk, taken a cigar from that enamelled box and clipped it with the tool that lay waiting, sat to read the newspaper in that other canvas-wrapped chair before that cold and empty fireplace.

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

  • He had sat at that shrouded desk, taken a cigar from that enamelled box and clipped it with the tool that lay waiting, sat to read the newspaper in that other canvas-wrapped chair before that cold and empty fireplace.

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

  • "Which is all very well for discouraging hostile invasion onto the Ridge, " I told Bree, panting as I set down a large canvas-wrapped bundle of candlesticks, chamber pots, and other small household belongings at the side of the trail.

    A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

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