" His latest message said: "LUGGED CANS OF ICE TEA.
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Throughout the whole trek, he lugged 50 pounds of gear.
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Throughout the trip, I lugged around my large travel bag.
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Young soldiers lugged heavy canisters of ammunition to the rooftop.
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"Your hair!" they shouted as I lugged my backpack on board.
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They even braved crappy weather as they lugged their bags around.
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She often lugged around equipment weighing as much as 50 pounds.
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Some wore tennis shoes and jeans underneath and lugged backpacks and handbags.
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People were hugging hello and goodbye as parents lugged children and presents.
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Eventually, he lugged them to the Embassy, to paint Assange's eyes from life.
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I couldn't listen to music or podcasts, so I lugged around a book.
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Each episode, hosts raid a celebrity's fridge, which is literally lugged into the studio.
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We lugged a container of gasoline to the woods and torched piles of brush.
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So she lugged a chair behind the garage to sit out the children's naps.
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He had lugged his bulky laptop to the sleepy town where his parents' relatives lived.
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It was Judd with whom Kusama lugged a heavy armchair down the streets of Manhattan.
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On May 25, 1935, as a member of the Boston Braves, Babe Ruth lugged a .
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He lugged a trophy nearly as big as he is back to the homeless shelter.
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Next, the three boxes containing the horses were lugged by a trolley to the tarmac.
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All season long the team's relief pitchers have lugged jugs of kerosene to the mound.
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Unlike the average chukka, the Neumel features a shearling-lined suede upper and a lugged outsole.
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Ms. Tomer, 20, lugged along her heavy organic chemistry textbooks; she had an exam that week.
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Its stocky profile reminds me of the soup containers we all lugged around in elementary school.
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She'll carry the load to a shallow pool created with water lugged from a nearby well.
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The spokesman claims detectives suspect the twins lugged a footstool over to the truck and climbed inside.
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For years, I lugged around a massive Pelican case containing Phantom 2 and later a Phantom 19079353.
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He lugged his gear and speakers to midnight house parties or Sunday morning brunches, mostly working free.
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Mr. Irvin then lugged the cash back to Los Angeles in his suitcase, according to the indictment.
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From comparatively lightweight road offerings to expensive insulated moon boots with lugged soles, there's plenty of variety.
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She lugged everything upstairs, tied a wrap around her head, and gave the walls a fresh coat.
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They lugged one big suitcase each, as well as blankets, toilet paper, cheap bread and jugs of water.
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McAlister hoped the answers might be inside the devices that Raymond had lugged out of the Allwines' basement.
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It weighs six pounds, and in Brooklyn, people lugged multiple copies up to Mr. Souza for a signing.
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It's a summer day, and I have lugged some five pounds of laundry to the laundromat on Broadway.
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We lugged along our work bags, which lacked the baguettes, Brie and berries everyone else seemed to have.
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Calling the ensemble the "Cirque Calder," he lugged it around to galleries and parties and put on shows.
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Tripod For three-plus years I lugged around an old, heavy video tripod that I found in a closet.
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Entering a New York City police station where he charged with rape, the disgraced Hollywood producer lugged three books.
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And a small wooden table, affixed with a presidential seal, was lugged along in case something must be signed.
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I've lugged around one that attaches to a pole or a pipe, and locks with a key or code.
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So she kept her cooler full of pumped breast milk in her carry-on bag and lugged it through security.
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On the last day of the challenge, Good lugged $700 worth of change — more than she anticipated — to the bank.
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We pushed and pulled and lugged our oppressive, gear-laden bikes over nearly every inch of ground, cursing and sputtering.
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I shot on film, with a camera, heavy lenses and a tripod, and lugged this gear around wherever I went.
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He says the first body he lugged over to the pit was marked with a white card: corpse number 5,535.
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If you have lugged around Roberto Bolaño's massive 2666, you've also had the work of translator Natasha Wimmer in your hands.
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First, he loaded the empty, approximately 20-pound bronze box into a backpack and lugged it into the mountains, breathing heavily.
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The gulf war was the first major conflict in which newspapers used portable satellite equipment that could be lugged by correspondents.
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It powers the lights, a hot plate and a large-screen television someone found on a street corner and lugged inside.
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I lugged it all the way back, and there was my husband, sitting in a chair drinking iced tea, reading Proust.
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Down from her, Jackie Rodriguez, 28, who flew in from Texas to view the relics, lugged her suitcase through the line.
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For months, I lugged Leo Tolstoy's ANNA KARENINA through airports, stuffing it into my backpack as I traveled around the country.
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The statues of saints that Pulido lugged across the border sit on a concrete cement shelf below reused Pepsi bottles storing water.
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After she died, I was the one who went in there and packed things up and lugged the boxes to the basement.
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He lugged Seti's alabaster sarcophagus out of the tomb and sold it to the architect and collector Sir John Soane, in London.
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It has seen better days, and after being lugged around four cities over five days it is in need of a good wash.
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The fruits of her labors were before her: the sodden objects lugged out of the home she shares with her mother and granddaughter.
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I entered the courtyard and tapped in the code for the front door—I still remembered it—and lugged my suitcase up the stairs.
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Kim had 2 handfuls with North and Saint, Kourtney lugged Reign ... and even Kylie was on (step)mom duty with Tyga's son, King Cairo.
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Harry had a tight grip on Archie's car seat while Meghan lugged some more baby gear, during the family outing a few Sundays back.
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Mr. Lathrop found a neighbor with a truck and lugged the waterlogged canoe — he estimated it weighed several hundred pounds — onto the truck bed.
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The oddly-shaped blue slide against a concrete floor looks strange from this angle, and the zig-zag lugged soles look more sculptural than wearable.
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By comparison, through World War II and Korea, American soldiers lugged the nine-and-a-half-pound M-1 rifle, which held only eight rounds.
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Sure, his teams won championships, but maybe Zubov was getting lugged around the ice by Brian Leetch in New York and Stephane Robidas in Dallas.
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Using the rope handles, DePalma and Pascucci lugged the specimen, which weighed perhaps two hundred pounds, to the truck and loaded it into the back.
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So, I lugged the Plank upstairs, cut it open, watched it inflate, and threw it on my bed frame, with the "ultra-firm" side up.
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He created elaborate presentation booklets for clients and — anxious that they might get misplaced — lugged massive boxes of them onto the plane from New York.
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But also, still the dutiful eldest son of a thatched farmstead in rural County Derry, Northern Ireland, who lugged the boxes to the library himself.
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With the roads blocked, it became impossible to replenish his supply, but within a few days volunteers lugged sled loads of coal to his house.
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Revere and the Hancock aide, John Lowell, apparently lugged it into the woods as musket balls from the Battle of Lexington were flying above them.
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Awkward, fragile, heavy (the rig, including tripod and film, weighs some sixty pounds), the camera has been lugged to the literal ends of the earth.
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In short: You're heading to school with a lot of trendsetting new gear, but you still need the stuff that generations of students lugged along, too.
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Bergouignan estimates the sensors and testing equipment she brought were worth around $290,229, which she lugged around in a gargantuan suitcase weighing more than 73 pounds.
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I made my way to a nearby Dunkin' restaurant, and after a brief ordering snafu, I lugged my haul of two sandwiches back to the office.
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But this is not really an exhibition of fine or even decorative arts, and Mr. Browne has lugged these shoes out before, in less critical settings.
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One point behind Burns is Nikita Kucherov, who has lugged the Tampa Bay Lightning into playoff contention with Steven Stamkos out for nearly the entire season.
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On two separate trips, the two photographers drove from New York, lugged their equipment through security on Capitol Hill and set up their lights and backdrops.
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To avoid the city's steep rental costs, they had a tiny house built for their family of three in Texas and lugged it out to California.
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No, please don't take away the case of Keystone I lugged here because Tennessee law won't let you see nipples and buy booze in the same place.
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My driver inexplicably dropped me off on a side street, so I lugged my suitcase through some winding back alleys before finally arriving at the front entrance.
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Two giant gantries, lugged from the water's edge, where they once hoisted sugar cane off barges, are painted turquoise, like the inside of the old Domino factory.
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"A friend of mine and I took it apart, piece by piece, lugged it up the stairs, and more or less put it together again," he added.
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And yet, with a manic glint in my eyes, I still lugged the RadRunner out of the basement of my apartment building for my ride to work.
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Making a break for it, my father helped the man and lugged the radio, which, when they reached the platoon, was found to be wrecked by shrapnel.
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Industrial culture hardly represented the subcontinent, where infantries of workmen, captured in archival film footage, lugged baskets of construction material for a building designed to look machined.
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The result is the Guardian, a massive suitcase with a built-in monitor for both gaming consoles and PCs that can be lugged around and plugged in anywhere.
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Let me repeat that: this $300 console, which is intended to be fully portable and withstand the damage of being constantly lugged around, has a plastic-covered screen.
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Trump will spend hours reviewing cable news coverage recorded on a TiVo-like device or sifting through cardboard boxes of newspapers and magazines that have been lugged aboard.
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Her art project served as her senior thesis for her visual arts degree, and she even lugged the mattress on stage with her when she graduated in 2015.
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It's also durable, having been lugged around to campsites all over California for the last three years by a woman who is known for destroying everything she touches.
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A few weeks earlier, I had dragged it through Ikea and then lugged it up the stairs to the top floor of our second- and third-floor duplex.
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In July 1881, washerwomen in Atlanta, toiling outside in the hot summer as they lugged buckets of well water and scrubbed their white patrons' laundry, finally had enough.
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In 1516, she was lugged out of Italy on the back of a mule by Leonardo da Vinci and ended up in France, where she became royal property.
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I lugged this essential information around for three decades and you tell me it fits on a black chip of plastic smaller than my (admittedly curiously broad) thumbnail?
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In 1516, she was lugged out of Italy on the back of a mule by Leonardo da Vinci and ended up in France, where she became royal property.
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Busy Stockholmers who want their clutter lugged to distant recycling centres can download an app that connects them to casual workers who will do it cheaply and straight away.
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A couple of years ago, I even lugged it outfor my birthday party where my drunk friends—experienced swordspeople and graceless newcomers alike—took turns stabbing each other senseless.
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"My whole family took all of us to Italy and apparently he lugged [the ring] all around Italy and held on to it for a couple months," she said.
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"My whole family took all of us to Italy and apparently he lugged [the ring] all around Italy and held on to it for a couple months," she continued.
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He helps people without asking for anything in return, like the day he lugged a washing machine into an apartment for his landlord but refused to accept any money.
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The company knows the thing is going to be hauled back and forth to the fitness center, to the track, the field, and everywhere else such luggage gets lugged.
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Ms. Peacock rewired it so she could trigger the sounds with her voice, and they lugged it around on tours throughout Europe and the United States, often startling audiences.
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Leonard Ouzts, who plays one of the regulars, mingled with extras as production assistants lugged an enormous tuna onto the set for a scene involving an elaborate fish tale.
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Front Burner It has been almost 30 years since Alex Villani first lugged his catch from his boat, the Blue Moon, to a Greenmarket stand in New York City.
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As Russell took another stab at it—"Stop!" he howled repeatedly, his voice at full stretch, while two impassive musclemen lugged him away—Brooker flexed his eyebrows and winced.
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Approximately 800 sofas were lugged from nearby homes and arrayed on the field alongside side tables and lamps, and pictures of the oddball scene were shared around the world.
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Plastic bins with hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of chips then are lugged to an adjacent room, where the chips will be melted and poured into plaster molds.
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She focuses on the heroism of Lisa Fittko, who led refugees to Spain, and on the never-solved mystery of what was inside the suitcase Benjamin lugged with him.
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In 2011, Eric Hawkins lugged a laptop loaded with demographic data and a program called Maptitude to Capitol Hill and the offices of the state's six Democratic House members.
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A unit had a through-the-wall air conditioner, which was a welcome change for Mr. Pena, who had lugged window units up and down attic stairs for both families.
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The Gophers upped the margin to 20-7 just 78 seconds into the third quarter as Chris Williamson intercepted a Gibbs pass and lugged it 43 yards for the score.
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In the late spring of 1978 it was for my mother that he lugged a television set up the hospital stairs, to entertain her while she waited for my birth.
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We slept with all the windows open in the sweltering heat and lugged buckets of water up three flights of stairs from the swimming pool to make the toilets run.
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Before Red Sox games, Rylan lugged coolers filled with bottled water onto Ipswich Street near Fenway Park, selling them for $244 before first pitch and $1 after the final out.
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Anthony Albert, from Oakland, lugged his bike along a half-mile hiking trail that circumvents the downed Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge and cycled all the way to Paul's Slide and back.
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They re-tiled the kitchen, uncovered a marble fireplace, put in a new fence out front, and lugged in new soil to the garden to create an outdoor oasis of berries.
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On those windy days—as I lugged all my stuff in panniers that turned me and my bike into a 250-pound kite—I sometimes wished for a less ambitious itinerary.
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She ended up saying that I looked really nice in this cardboard cutout of my head that was in my dressing room that we had kind of lugged around since Tokyo.
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While a tall insulated boot with a lugged sole keeps your off-bike commutes comfortable, you may not be willing to accept the extra weight and limited ankle mobility while riding.
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Jeffrey Campbell Sopas Lugged Platform Boot, available at Nordstrom, $99.90 (originally $129.95) [You save $30.05]A lug sole boot is not only trendy but perfect for trudging through snow and slush.
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I spent a day with two scientists with the geological survey who lugged their gear down a steep hillside that was still covered in ash from a wildfire four months before.
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Jevon Holland gave the Ducks a 17-10 advantage when he picked off an ill-advised throw over the middle by Gordon and lugged it 19 yards 1:51 before the half.
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I have since lugged these 300 books to a new house, and then again when we built a new storage area, feeling like Sisyphus punished for lacking a strong enough story arc.
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But little is left behind at the Estadio Nuevo Laredo, which is why when Flete needed a printer before a game in Nuevo Laredo, he lugged one from his office in Laredo.
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So we made do with sucking on a bunch of spicy tamarind candies that I'd lugged back from a recent trip to Thailand, where I was reporting on the chef Pim Techamuanvivit.
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There is an old card catalog Offill lugged home one day as a present for her husband, and a chalkboard marking planting dates for his sugar snap peas and baby bok choy.
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The bricks of ice that had been pulled from the pit had been lugged up to the surface and arranged into what I can only believe is the world's northernmost outdoor bar.
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She lugged multiple oxygen tanks with her whenever she left the house, planning the details of her day so that she would not get caught without enough oxygen to make it back home.
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They bought ceramics in Mexico, lugged Flos lighting back from Italy in their suitcases and, once, nearly missed a client meeting in St. Louis when Arthur insisted on stopping at an antique store.
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Engvall scored his sixth goal of the season at 13:25 of the second on a nifty pass into the slot from Kasperi Kapanen, who had lugged the puck up the left wing.
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But in a market where shipwrecks are still recorded by some insurers with a quill and paperwork is lugged around Lloyd's futuristic 21-storey building in slipcases, some brokers and underwriters are resisting innovation.
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A few years later, when my brother and I were teenagers home alone one afternoon, we lugged a pump and hose out to our pond as embers fell around us and helicopters roared overhead.
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He spends time reading, skateboarding and taking pictures, making little use of his degree in political science — though he lugged a biography of Theodore Roosevelt and "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius to his curbside campsite.
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I lived in Queens then and lugged my 35-pound duffel bag to the Bliss Street station to ride the No. 7 line into Grand Central and then took the No. 6 local 27 stops.
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Later, a retired general and former member of Congress, now working for a defense contractor, lugged in some sort of metal strut in a canvas bag, trying to sell the congressman on its military applications.
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"My whole family took all of us to Italy and apparently he lugged [the ring] all around Italy and held on to it for a couple months," Faris said of the engagement ring Pratt bought her.
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The song playing was "Texas Is My Mother," which was partly informed by a conversation he and Don Antonio had had with a Dreamer in a Dallas restaurant who'd lugged his aunt across the Rio Grande.
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But before the NASA shelters can replace the current shelters, Petrilli needs to ensure that they hold up in the real world, as the bundled and folded tents are lugged through rough terrain and tossed around.
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A nurse who had once aspired to a career in journalism (he recalls finding her press credentials once, for a Galveston newspaper), she lugged a massive bookcase packed with books whenever they moved, which was often.
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He boarded the Thar Express to Zero Point Station, the last stop before the border, where he and his family lugged their bags by foot into India, settling in a camp in the city of Jodhpur.
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They sold clothes designed by friends, their own hoodie sweatshirts with an oversized diamond pattern (Leon's mother, Wendy, helped sew them), and apparel and tchotchkes that they lugged home from marathon shopping trips to Hong Kong.
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I'm also a cleaning expert, which makes the reality of my 325-square-foot apartment — which is short on amenities, leaving dishes to be done by hand and dirty clothes to be lugged to laundromats — somewhat dispiriting.
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Our relationship started because she said she wanted to buy my chronically unplayed cello; I have lugged this instrument during two apartment moves over the past few months, and finally put it up for sale on Craigslist.
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Mr. Norton had bought ice cream for the cast and crew, who shouted good-naturedly to each other, in a cacophony of different languages, as they lugged camera and equipment down the stairs for the next shot.
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"To all the moms-to-be who lugged their baby bellies here today," Huntsman said at the end of the episode, raising a glass of non-alcoholic sparkling cider to the fellow moms-to-be in the audience.
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I lugged the heavy package in a shopping bag on the commuter train from Manhattan, then drove out to meet him at the Custer Observatory, a nonprofit located under the relatively dark skies of Long Island's North Fork.
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In his first campaign, a third-party bid for US Senate in 1972, he lugged around a 2,000-page, two-volume study by the House Banking and Currency Committee, liberally quoting its findings to the people of Vermont.
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It was Mr. Abella, however, who lugged pounds of coffee (and cacao) beans from Cameroon in his suitcase and roasted them in his kitchen toaster oven during a yearlong testing process to create premier coffee and signature chocolate bars.
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Packed with a combination of a laptop, notebooks, textbooks, a change of clothes and more, I understood why he lugged it around all day: We lived far from campus and he needed all of those things throughout the day.
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Constance's mother was once not so far from the rest of them, if measured by this and that, yardsticks or swizzle, but now she has soared straight to space: shot to the moon, tucked into bed where Constance has lugged her.
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From her storefront bakery in the Bronx, the dense, moist cakes have boarded planes bound for far-flung parts of the world, lugged by faithful customers who swear by them and want their family and friends to do so as well.
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The couple lugged an extra folding table and chairs so that they could play dominoes, a large plastic cooler on wheels full of food, and the most important accessory for outdoor entertaining, according to Ms. Morales: a fully charged wireless speaker.
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So as the lava poured across the eastern part of the Big Island, Gansecki donned her boots, a protective suit, and a mask, and lugged a shovel and hunk of metal roofing out onto the hardened sections of the flow.
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MILAN — As dawn broke over a quiet suburb, Lorenzo Fiato lugged a silver suitcase packed with windbreakers and anti-seasickness gum out of the bedroom he had decorated with stickers ("Enough Immigration") and shelves filled with medieval knight toy soldiers.
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Upon first encountering the bikes in 212, your correspondent rode one far outside its designated zone and lugged it up four flights of stairs before, confronted by his mortified host, he took it back down again and abandoned it on a grassy verge.
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" It was part of a ritual created by my older son, Charlie, when he came home from his bar mitzvah service, chug-a-lugged the tea straight from the bottle, and proclaimed, "I'm a man, I can drink from the Man Jug.
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In July, as the Iraqi army stormed the ISIS stronghold of Mosul some 60 miles away, bands of roving war reporters lugged flak jackets and camera gear through the mahogany-veneered lobby while frontline aid coordinators nervously guzzled coffee between long shifts.
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Books of The Times The photographer Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee, lugged his enormous Speed Graphic camera around the nighttime streets of New York City in the 1930s and '40s, cultivating a persona as stark and as memorable as his tabloid pictures.
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"I started to have some conversations about next steps career-wise, and during that time I started writing," Mr. Peres said last week, sitting in his home office in Irvington, N.Y., at a wooden drafting desk that he had lugged from Paris.
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Foster hit a transition layup with 11:28 left in the half to finish an 11-2 run and up the advantage to 43-26, and Creighton lugged a 49-11 lead into the locker room when Hegner sank two free throws with 50 seconds left.
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To reach the bleak steel entry wall — at the southernmost corner of the continental United States — musicians lugged instruments a mile and a half from a parking lot, astride tire ruts of United States Border Patrol vehicles in the sands of Imperial Beach along the Pacific Ocean.
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One of the former Momentum workers, Shaddon Beswick, said in an interview that he was subjected to frequent use of the "N-word" and called "panel boy" as he lugged 50-pound solar panels up a 40-foot ladder to the roofs of two-story houses.
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I frantically scribbled notes, walking and asking questions, while Mr. White lugged a huge duffel bag of camera equipment, taking bursts of shots as Mr. Scharf raced on and off the subway, in and out of traffic, finally landing at the onetime location of Club 57.
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During her recent visit to East Hampton, Ms. Quinn walked from room to room, pointing out wicker furniture, chaise longues and a set of china with a floral pattern; all were among the treasures she discovered in the attic that first year and lugged down to preserve.
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He lugged a large vase full of change (the "genie bottle") over to the couch, retrieved from the satchel 22 thousand-dollar bundles, plus a big stack of small-denomination bills that he'd been collecting all week, and then laid it all on a cushion beside him.
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Tavares lugged around PA Parenteau and Matt Moulson for years while Crosby carried a cavalcade of guys that would probably be in the AHL right now if not for the blessed luck of playing on his wing, and landed Chris Kunitz a spot on a stacked Olympic roster.
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But Shinola is selling the idea of lineage: Its lugged-steel frame is manufactured by Waterford, a lauded Wisconsin-based maker of custom bikes (Richard Schwinn is a founder), and designed by Sky Yaeger, who helped turn bikes into fashion items during her years at Bianchi and Swobo.
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If you've ever lugged around a too-heavy bag, you know what we're talking about: One sore shoulder, a bruise-blister-hybrid where the buckle's been rubbing all day, and a lumpy, bumpy, frankly unflattering situation where the strap crosses your chest and causes your shirt to wrinkle up.
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I will say that I finally lugged Motherboard's Xbox One home to finish playing Doom and relax by driving cars in circles for hours in Forza and I casually dread turning it on every time because it either needs updates or just takes forever to load a game.
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Thackeray found what he calls evidence of lichen on the bones, and this suggested to him that the remains had been exposed to extensive daylight; this is hard to reconcile with the idea that the creatures lugged carcasses through narrow, pitch-black passageways and then left them to rot in a remote chamber.
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" In ancient hieroglyphs it was djebet , which became tobe in Coptic, and then the Arabs, adding a definite article, made it al-tuba , which was brought to Spain as adobar , and then to the American Southwest, where this heavy thing, having been lugged across four millennia and seven thousand miles, finally landed as "adobe.
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If the thigh-high lucite heels, multi-million dollar "promise" rings, and private jet-setting lifestyle weren't enough of a dead giveaway, consider the fact that Kylie Jenner lugged her personal professional grade lighting all the way from Calabasas to New York Fashion Week just to make sure her hair and makeup is never not on point.
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Of the 210 pounds of rocks that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin lugged back to Earth in August 1969, mostly for scientific analysis, plaques with four pieces weighing 50 milligrams, just over two-thousandths of an ounce, were conferred by the White House as good-will gifts on each of the leaders of 135 countries, the United Nations and all 50 states.
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I've lugged around everything from massive ThinkPads to iPad Pros and I've always found myself stuck in one of two situations – the laptops that made the most sense were too heavy to be comfortably portable and the tablets and ultraportables I used, including the Surface Pro, offered too much of a performance trade-off to warrant swapping from a full desktop device.
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Our small shop was full of items we'd shipped back from trips to far-flung places, pieces wrapped in newspaper and lugged through customs, weird objects unearthed from antiques auctions in unglamorous corners of America, and a carefully curated collection of new items sourced from a handful of designers making products with the same integrity and sense of providence as the antiques they stood beside.
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I chose a plum-colored rubber tree that came up to my armpit, handed over $50 and lugged it down Canal Street, dreaming of the years we would have together, this plant and I. Maybe it would greet me when I brought home my first newborn, I said to myself, or someday slide around in the back of a U-Haul, as I drove to a new city.
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He pulled his trailer, piled with wreaths, roping and the other decorations he had created, down the ramp to the plaza between the Seventh Avenue subway and what was then the U.S.O. His crew unloaded the trailer, lugged the decorations into the main station, climbed and hung the wreaths and roping from the iron columns into the hushed vastness, with me asleep on a burlap bag of spare princess pine.
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