When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.

Now he saw that both the man and woman were moving slowly and irregularly, staggering, as if they found it a struggle to remain on their feet.

Her blond hair was frowzy, her dress torn in several places, and her shoes were so completely worn out that they were practically no protection.

When they were finally satisfied, Jones said, `` I think he's going to give us work ''.

Now they were riding to kill him.

All were carrying guns they had seized up, but they were half-clad or hardly clad at all.

Beyond the stockade rifles began to explode as some of the guerrillas fired at shadows that they imagined were Apaches.

But what few containers they found were inadequate.

Hell, they were fightin' each other so hard they had no time for anyone else.

At first they were only feathers and dark indistinguishable faces and bodies, hunched over their horses' heads.

A second leaped from his horse to the top of the bale, firing four arrows in such rapid succession it didn't seem possible they were in flight.

They weren't sleeping, of course, but they thought they were doing him a favor by pretending.

They expected greater things from him, regardless of how trying the circumstances, and they were disappointed.

But they were starting a new life.

They were going to town, and they were both excited.

I knew that three or four of them were almost always present in the hall, but what they were doing, and exactly where, I could not tell.

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.

Xylene cyanol and Bromophenol blue are common dyes found in loading buffers ; they run about the same speed as DNA fragments that are 5000 bp and 300 bp in length respectively, but the precise position varies with percentage of the gel.

Puccini succeeded in mastering the orchestra as no other Italian had done before him, creating new forms by manipulating structures inherited from the great Italian tradition, loading them with bold harmonic progressions which had little or nothing to do with what was happening then in Italy, though they were in step with the work of French, Austrian and German colleagues.

When previously fired cases are used, they must be inspected before loading.

Laborers pushed empty carts from the loading area up the tramway to the digging pits, where they were then loaded with guano.

While most of a Pteranodon flight would have depended on soaring, like long-winged seabirds, it probably required an occasional active, rapid burst of flapping, and studies of Pteranodon wing loading ( the strength of the wings vs. the weight of the body ) indicate that they were capable of substantial flapping flight, contrary to some earlier suggestions that they were so big they could only glide.

The occurrence of red tides in some locations appear to be entirely natural ( algal blooms are a seasonal occurrence resulting from coastal upwelling, a natural result of the movement of certain ocean currents ) while in others they appear to be a result of increased nutrient loading from human activities.

Because of a slower loading time than a musket, they were not adopted by the whole army.

People who have designed something only once before, try to do all the things they " did not get to do last time ," loading the project up with all the things they put off while making version one, even if most of them should be put off in version two as well.

Automatically loading new programs using mobile agents can save the system administrator a lot of time and give users their results much quicker, as long as they don't get out of control.

Antennas which are the wrong length to be resonant, or which must operate at a different frequency at which they are not resonant, are often brought into resonance by loading ; adding capacitors or inductors in series with them.

Ports could deal more easily with convoys because they tended to arrive on schedule and so loading and unloading could be planned.

Furthermore, they required additional loading into rail or truck bodies.

The rollers allow weight to be conveyed as they reduce the amount of friction generated from the heavier loading on the belting.

Today, most processors implement such separate signal pathways for performance reasons but actually implement a Modified Harvard architecture, so they can support tasks such as loading a program from disk storage as data and then executing it.

As these drug cartels have gotten more directly involved, however, they are beginning to play a more central role in the business of people smuggling and often exploit individuals-seen as human cargo-and using them by loading up smuggled individuals with backpacks full of marijuana and using them over and over for drug sales.

To keep the tanks from collapsing prior to propellant loading, they were either kept in " stretch " or pressurized with nitrogen gas.

Most versions of the HIMEM. SYS extended memory driver for IBM -/ MS-DOS famously displayed upon loading a message that they had installed an " A20 handler ", a piece of software to control Gate-A20 and coordinate it to the needs of programs.

Discovering the presence of the Union forces the next day they surprised a company of Union troops as they were loading supplies they had purchased from local farms.

Instead, paper cartridges were used mainly because they sped up the loading process.

During this time, for the three months that Newport and his crew were in port, they wasted much time loading their ships with iron pyrites ( fool's gold ).

That afternoon when they had pulled up in front of the broken-down ranch house, his hopes had been high.

A red-tailed hawk flew in behind them and stayed there, watching for any snakes or rabbits that they might stir up from the side of the road.

Ten years ago they blew up some of our ditches.

The wound in his scalp was examined, pronounced healing, and well doctored with simples, before they dished up the victuals.

If any of us miss, they can pick up the pieces.

Charles said as they picked their way over the rocky road which led up the hill away from the Dixie Highway, through a corn field and a patch of woods to the school.

Then they were tumbling again, and the big man reached into the same pocket he had gone for earlier, and came up with a vicious switchblade.

and I have heard many say that they are content to earn a half or a third as much as they could up North because they so much prefer the quieter habits of their home town.

Operating side by side, together they helped shore up the nation-state.

At the corroborees, when they get to dancing and sweating, you'll see them rubbing up against a man who's supposed to have a specially good smell.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

and in her forthright way, Henrietta, who in her story of Sara had indicated her own unwillingness `` to think of men as the privileged '' and `` women as submissive and yielding '', felt obliged to defend vigorously any statement of hers to which Morris Jastrow took the slightest exception -- he objected to her stand on the Corbin affair, as well as on the radical reforms of Dr. Wise of Hebrew Union College -- until once, in sheer desperation, he wrote that he had given up hope they would ever agree on anything.

About noon they came up with the enemy two miles from Lovejoy's Station and deployed.

First, it could locate the enemy infantry, learn what they were doing, and hold them until the heavy foot columns could come up and take over.

This man, Tom said, had the play shut up in his desk, I believe, and when Tom sat down, he pulled it out and apologetically told Tom that they wouldn't be able to use it.

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 '' ; ;

Charles Plummer in the introduction and notes to his splendid edition of Bede voiced some early doubts concerning the `` elaborate superstructure '' they raised up over the slim foundations afforded by the traditional narratives of the conquest.

It is not possible to reconstruct fully the arrangements whereby these honors lists were then made up or even how the names that they contained assumed the order in which we find them.

At least they hadn't stepped up and asked to see papers in the hated, flat, dialect mispronunciation of Mussolini's home district -- Dogumenti, per favore.