After sorting to slack, or powdered, nut, egg and lump, the coal went to a sorting table where debris was removed by hand.
Dex was standing near a sorting table, talking to three teenage girls who sat on top of it.
You've got to learn," he said, grabbing the carton Killashandra had just lifted to the sorting table.
Three months before in Chicago's central post office a bulky, improperly wrapped envelope had burst open on the sorting table, revealing a number of suspicious-looking documents.
Periodically, the cook lugs batches of dry potatoes over to the sorting table where other workers pick out smaller broken pieces.
Killashandra leaned against the sorting table to balance her shaky self.
Each cluster is inspected by hand at the sorting table prior to the automated destemming process which separates the berries from the stems.
It was made easier by Mayor Catherine dumping her sample bag on the sorting table.
The large pebbles were then emptied onto an improvised sorting table, where they were excitedly inspected.
When Josie didn't answer, he went to stand next to her at the sorting table.