Sentences with phrase «by crane over»

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Their words, carelessly spoken, spent the last 40 days in my home — getting creased and folded, worked over, brushed aside to make room for dinner, stepped on by a toddler, read by my sister, stained with coffee, shoved into a closet when guests arrive, blacked out, thrown away, turned into poems, and folded into sailboats and cranes and pigeons that now sit smiling at me from my office window.

Watchful Crip, one of three whooping cranes in captivity, stands guard over two eggs laid by mate at New Orleans zoo.

British press reports earlier this month suggested they were, quoting a Navy officer as saying that penguins are so intrigued by the sight of helicopters that they crane their necks until they fall over.

Along with the DVD comes an interview with Sally Potter and documentaries about filming in Uzbekistan (a stand - in for Constantinople) and Russia (where they shot the Great Frost, when the Thames froze over) and hoisting Jimmy Somerville up by crane to swing in the breeze while wearing angel's wings.

The sludge - gray Onandaga River divided the city as it met Lake Erie beneath a steel bridge: the valley carved by the river was a treeless expanse of railroad tracks, boxcars, refineries, cranes, chemical plants, and, looming over all of this, the smokestacks of the steel mills — squat, black, and enormous — on which Steelton's existence had once depended.

Concern over the blue crane began in the early 1990s when it became obvious they were on the decline — their numbers had dwindled in the northern Free State, KwaZulu Natal, the Eastern Cape and the former Transvaal by as much as 90 %, and they had almost disappeared from the Transkei, Lesotho and Swaziland.

Inspired by the scale and appearance of an industrial dock, the huge eruptions of scaffolding tower over you like a quayside full of rusty cranes.

Over the next 10 years, Mass MoCA will house four works by Bourgeois, including a pair of monumental sculptures that had to be hoisted in by crane.

Some of our clients have suffered serious injuries after being run over by a crane or when an object fell from it.

A building tower crane hosted each of the Telus letters into place, while crews waited in suspended compartments that looked like window - washing equipment, held up by six levels of temporary scaffolding and beams cantilevering out over the tops of the glass walls.