Big copper work robots, small aluminum sales-girl mechs, plastoid clerks and typists, squatty little Mumetal lab servos, rationaloids, non-rationaloids and just plain sub-robots-all sizes and shapes.
"The Love of Frank Nineteen"
David Carpenter Knight
Perhaps it was nothing but instinct that caused him to slow down his pace as he passed a squatty and rather dilapidated building in the middle of the block.
"The Gray Phantom's Return"
Herman Landon
On the other sides of the inclosure were a squatty structure that might have been a laundry and a slightly taller building that, judging from the barrels and boxes piled against the wall, was probably a grocery.
"The Gray Phantom's Return"
Herman Landon