Proceed with the destruction of the sats."

The sats were small, unmanned electronic satellite observers, distributed throughout the Asteroid Belt to aid in research and navigation.

We located three sats in quadrant two and destroyed them all."

A total of fourteen sats had been located within 600 miles of the asteroid where Crass was waiting, and all had been destroyed.

Mel was responsible for monitoring the sats in a large segment of the Asteroid Belt, and a section over a thousand miles in diameter had gone dark.

It's a completely dead spot, and sats are spaced very thinly there.

Yet fourteen sats in a sphere at least a thousand miles in diameter were put out within a ten-minute period.

Crass' assignment had included the destruction of the sats while he performed his task.

Now that the pirates knew how easy and fast it was to complete the work, they did not bother to destroy the sats in the remaining four sites.

Zimbardo knew that the destruction of the sats would alert Space Command, but the authorities would not be able to stop the project before his ships returned.

They quickly replaced the sats, got them activated, and then checked data.

He sats soom store by Dr. Rawcliffe.

Oh, fie upon the wicked sons of Dhritarashtra!'" Vaisampayana continued, "Saying this, the weeping king sat himself down upon the ground.

It might help to warm ye, if ye sat be the fire up-stairs.

" The youth was so deeply interested in the question that he brought his chair beside the window and sat down to await results.

This was the grave question which the two boys sat down to answer in the gloom of a wintry evening, when they were about fourteen years of age.

They sat up late again talking over their grand scheme of seeking their fortune, and even after they retired the hum of their conversation continued until far into the night.

" "What do you mean?" Patsey carefully closed and bolted the door behind him, and sat down on the edge of the bed, speaking in a low, guarded voice.

As may well be imagined, Tom Gordon was not likely to fall asleep again that night, so, having fully dressed himself, he sat down on the edge of the bed to wait and watch.

[Illustration: It was a fierce drive.] As there was nothing for him to do, the train being in the hands of another newsboy, he sat down in the smoking-car, which was only moderately filled.

As he sat down again in the chair, he heard feet on the deck, and he concluded that his master had come back to see whether all was right.

As both came on deck, the white man signified to the lad that he was to follow him into the cabin, where the door was shut, and they sat down facing each other.

The Aeolian harp of the heart does not always discourse battle music, and on this night it was as if an old sad minstrel sat before me and played unendingly one plaint, the story of a lost throne, of a lost family, lost children, a lost world.

I I imagine that whilst the prodigal son sat at meat with his father and their guests, there may have come to the door a weary tramp begging food and lodging.

[Footnote 52: Juvenal, "Sat."