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Only the lean little Mary, trussed for the cooking, staring through her wide eyes of fear, saw the boy pick Jerry up by his tied legs and carry him out and away from the booty of meat of which she was part.
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It appears he sat twenty-four hours when I left HIM trussed up, but he said twelve would content him in my case, as there was certain death at the end of them, and I mightn't have life enough left to appreciate my end if he made it longer.
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The Bodymaster orders that he shall be trussed, blinded, and entered," said he.
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there stood a strong man, with a mighty hamper, which, being hauled into the room and presently unpacked, disgorged such treasures as tea, and coffee, and wine, and rusks, and oranges, and grapes, and fowls ready trussed for boiling, and calves'-foot jelly, and arrow-root, and sago, and other delicate restoratives, that the small servant, who had never thought it possible that such things could be, except in shops, stood rooted to the spot in her one shoe, with her mouth and eyes watering in unison, and her power of speech quite gone.
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Such arrangement is present not only in truss bridge spans but in truss-stayed bridges (Reintjes, Gebert 2006) and in trussed decks of modern cable-stayed bridges (Zongyu 2012) as well.
Composite deck in two-dimensional modelling of railway truss bridge/Kompozitinis paklotas modeliuojant santvarini gelezinkelio tilta dvimateje erdveje/Dzelzcela tilta kopnes kompozitas klatnes divdimensiju modelesana/Raudtee fermsilla komposiitdeki kahemootmeline modelleerimine
The flexural deflection of a trussed pedestrian bridge subjected to dead load and live load of 3924 N/[m.
Use of small thinning logs in a round-wood trussed bridge

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