The men in Pettigrew's were tired from a night's drinking, their faces red and baggy.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

There were three other men within this prison whom Barton would have liked to liberate, but they were in other cell blocks.

Two men were on duty inside, playing pinochle, relaxed.

A company of cavalry couldn't come in there if two men were guarding that trail ''.

At the moment, the three men were not saying much of anything.

They were all good men.

All through Albany and Laramie counties, other men were doing the same.

The small half-heartedly tended fields of men who'd spent more time rustling cattle than farming were lying fallow.

Jury, judge and executioner were riding the range in the form of a single unknown figure that could materialize anywhere, at any time, to dispense an ancient brand of justice the men of the new West had believed long outdated.

Within a decade or less, few men were left and a feminist society had sprung up.

`` Karipo was great goddess, told our mothers that men were not necessary except to father children '', the crone told me.

The men behind them were Bill Doolin and five of his gang -- every man a killer.

Even today range riders will come upon mummified bodies of men who attempted nothing more difficult than a twenty-mile hike and slowly lost direction, were tortured by the heat, driven mad by the constant and unfulfilled promise of the landscape, and who finally died.

Strong men with strong opinions, frank to the point of being refreshingly indiscreet, the Founding Seven were essentially congenial minds, and their agreements with each other were more consequential than their differences.

others were of men doffing their hats to each other, carrying umbrellas with pomp, reading newspapers, or simply showing loaves of bread spread out.

In much the same way, we recognize the importance of Shakespeare's familarity with Plutarch and Montaigne, of Shelley's study of Plato's dialogues, and of Coleridge's enthusiastic plundering of the writings of many philosophers and theologians from Plato to Schelling and William Godwin, through which so many abstract ideas were brought to the attention of English men of letters.

Although this kind of wholesale objection came at first from some men who were not technically Puritans, still, once the Puritans gained power, they climaxed the affair by passing the infamous ordinance of 1642 which decreed that all `` public stage-plays shall cease and be forborne ''.

There was much sickness in the corps, and the men were, in addition, without the clothing, shoes, and blankets needed for the winter weather.

If the hardships of the winter at Valley Forge were trying for healthy men, they were, of course, much more so for those not in good health.

The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.

Behind him lay the Low Countries, where men were still completing the cathedrals that a later Florentine would describe as `` a malediction of little tabernacles, one on top of the other, with so many pyramids and spires and leaves that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they look as though they were made of paper instead of stone or marble '' ; ;

The prefect of Legio II Augusta, Poenius Postumus, stationed near Exeter, ignored the call, and a fourth legion, IX Hispana, had been routed trying to relieve Camulodunum, but nonetheless the governor was able to call on almost ten thousand men.

Hengist finds that his men, who are pagans, are routed, and that the Britons, who are Christian, " by the especial favour of god ," hold the upper hand.

* Skirmish at Michmash, Philistines routed by Jonathan and his men ( 1 Samuel 14 ).

But at Castellfullit de la Roca, in one of the Government ’ s worst defeats, Nouvilas was routed by Carlist General Francisco Savalls, and captured along with about 2, 000 of his men.

Belisarius's mercenary cavalry was routed by the Vandals, and even though Gelimer was outnumbered, his men were performing well in the fighting.

Paris's noble birth was betrayed by his outstanding beauty and intelligence ; while still a child he routed a gang of cattle-thieves and restored the animals they had stolen to the herd, thereby earning the surname Alexander (" protector of men ").

The Athenians are routed, with all of their generals and 430 other men killed.

Diomedes agreed the proposal, drew up his men and routed the Messapians.

In the following year, 9, 000 men led by Charles routed 12, 000 Danes at the Battle of Landskrona.

The Baiocassenses ( men from Bayeux ) were Saxons and they in particular were routed by the Bretons.

When the men of the tribe returned, they routed Turner, who died of a mortal wound at Green River.

Together, the volley fire of the three British battalions soon routed Brenier's men.

Towards 11: 00, he rallied many of the men who had routed during the attack on Aderklaa and then had ratios of brandy distributed, in order to boost morale.

The Battle of White Mountain, 8 November 1620 ( Bílá hora is the name of White Mountain in Czech ) was an early battle in the Thirty Years ' War in which an army of 30, 000 Bohemians and mercenaries under Christian of Anhalt were routed by 27, 000 men of the combined armies of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor under Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy and the German Catholic League under Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly at Bílá Hora, near Prague ( now part of the city ).

Wheeler and his troopers guarded the army's left flank at Chickamauga in September 1863, and after the routed Union Army collected in Chattanooga, Gen. Bragg sent Wheeler's men into central Tennessee to destroy railroads and Federal supply lines in a major raid.

Sir Charles Lucas and Lord Grandison rallied about 200 men, but when they tried to charge the Parliamentarian rear, they were distracted by fugitives from Charles Essex's routed brigade.

On 13 November 1642 his men were surprised at Brentford during his absence, and routed after a stout resistance.

As it was, Leslie was forced to sacrifice many of his veteran troops in the process of saving Banér's men from being routed.

John Neville, later to be 1st Marquess of Montagu, led a modest force of 3, 000-4, 000 men, routed the rebel Lancastrians.

As a result, all communications between the two men were routed through May-ling Soong, or " Madame Chiang " as she was known to Americans, and she was designated the group's " honorary commander.

Before Ruchel's 15, 000 men could arrive from Weimar, Hohenlohe's force was routed.

Here he was surprised at night by Hugh Dubh and Manus O ' Donnell, and routed with the loss of 900 men and an immense quantity of booty in the Battle of Knockavoe.

In 1643 he surprised and routed hundreds of Inchiquin's men in county Cork at the ford of the river Funcheon.