He took it and hefted it in his hand, feeling the weight and inspecting the clear visor. |
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Theo came back out with a twelve-foot square tent in an incredibly heavy box and hefted it between them into the car. |
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Leading him to a tree and commanding him to halt she hefted the saddle on and fastened the girth. |
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She hefted the large mass of weaponry with great difficulty, and then cocked her ear. |
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I buckled on the belt and clipped the knife to it, then hefted the sword gingerly. |
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I hefted my pick over my shoulder and brought it down hard on the stony wall. |
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So being the gentleman he was, he pulled himself on stage, grabbed her, hefted her up on his shoulder and walked broadly down the steps. |
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He'd simply grabbed her by the waist and had hefted her over his shoulder, and she let him do so in utter bewilderment. |
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I didn't have time to mourn, for a heavy hand gripped the clothes on my back and hefted me up off the ground. |
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He picked his sword back up and hefted its weight before moving predatorily in the direction of the prone man. |
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After a moment's looking over the problem he picked up a stone, hefted it, and then wacked everything back into place with a practised hand. |
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She looked on in wide eyed astonishment as he hefted a fairly large, gray, leather-bound book, in his hands. |
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When I hefted it, the gun felt solid in my hand and took definite pressure on the trigger before the hammer clicked. |
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The boy had picked up the stranger's dropped guns and he hefted them curiously before he handed them back. |
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David picked it up, felt the weight of it, hefted it, tossed it up and down. |
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Sighing, she hefted the drinks tray and threaded her way to the table, wondering as she arrived why everyone seemed to have caught a sudden bout of Gallic verve. |
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A portly man of deceptive agility, perseverance and physical strength, Mr. Holst tirelessly hefted commodious traveling bags full of gifts. |
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The cool, winy air rushed at my face as I hefted a little wooden keg onto my shoulder and set off for home. |
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Hall's prose is chunky with local language, colour and landscape: bothies, bields, becks and corbies, hefted flocks and droves of heather. |
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Tiredly the young monk rose to his feet, hefted the sand-filled water-can and left the cave. |
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Ruth caught one anyway, and hefted it deep into the right field stands for his 55th homer. |
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Two armored beings stood over me, and I was hefted into the air. |
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Dan hefted the pistol in his hand, watching the oncoming cavalrymen. |
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Now, having long since left behind the toil of the sea, he hefted flasks of whiskey instead of halyards, ladled grog instead of tar, or polished glass instead of brass. |
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She hefted back a metal box with the words First Aid on the cover. |
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Many have hefted bricks for eight hours a day since they were ten or eleven. |
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I could have happily sat on Ahmed's terrace for the rest of the afternoon, watching as the villagers returned from the market, clambered down from the roofs of vans, hefted sacks of wheat and flour. |
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The guard hefted his cudgel menacingly and looked at the inmates. The threat to swing glinted in his eye. |
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He hefted himself out and slid down the sandbags, to the ground. |
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