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.

I know now why our Japanese friends were surprised when they walked into our bathroom.

He and some colleagues had stripped naked for a swim in the river when they were surprised by a party of ladies out for a stroll.

When the X-Men receive a distress call from a Scottish island, they are surprised to find Juggernaut with nowhere to go, as the island was destroyed by his further-mutated partner in crime, Black Tom Cassidy, who died.

Although Benson is at first wary of Haden, they are both surprised to find they work well together.

At last making it back home on a bicycle, she found that American troops had seized her house, then was surprised by how kindly they treated her.

Further, there is no reason to be surprised when discussions such as those about the " death of God " – a concept drawn from Nietzsche – stir popular excitement as they did in the recent past, and could do so again today.

Similarly, " They were so farre surprised with his Manifesto, that they would never suffer it to be published " ( p. 103 )

It is possible that Weinberg hoped that the stronger men would have a better chance of fighting off the attackers, but they were all surprised in their sleep.

But they were totally surprised when they were resting in Taplakhar, as Kaji Bamsa Raj Pandey led a downhill attack on them Kaju Naharsigh Basnyat led an uphill attack from below them and Nandu Shah led a frontal attack.

Of course, smaller fortresses, or ones easily surprised, were taken as they came along.

Its commanders, the brothers Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus and Publius Cornelius Scipio, knew that Hannibal had crossed the Ebro, but were surprised by the Carthaginian army's presence at the Rhone upstream of their ally Massalia, where they had landed.

However, they had neglected to inform NBC and Castle Rock of the change, and when the season premiere aired, they were surprised and unimpressed, and requested that they return to the original style.

Before this season, the Dolphins had never won a playoff game in franchise history, but they surprised the entire NFL by advancing to the Super Bowl with wins against the two previous Super Bowl champions.

The 49ers ' success surprised many because they finished with a 6-10 record during the previous season, and a 2-14 record before that ( they even still had home blackouts early on in the 1981 season, the last blackouts for the 49ers to date ).

In fact they are sometimes surprised in such places by the dogs ; then they run away down to the plain, and the dogs try to chase them over the flat ground.

" one in this country probably was more surprised than I when weapons of mass destruction were not used against our troops as they moved toward Baghdad ," said Franks on 2 December 2005.

For example, at a public meeting with VeriSign to air technical concerns about SiteFinder, numerous people, active in the IETF and other technical bodies, explained how they were surprised by VeriSign's changing the fundamental behavior of a major component of Internet infrastructure, not having obtained the customary consensus.

The Germans knew the British were mining and had taken some countermeasures but they were surprised by the extent of the mining.

When they were ready to leave, Benson and Ramey walked back around the rear of the trailer.

She was closing and within one more bound would have been able to reach the rear end of the bay, but -- and here Jones and Loveless and Ulyate were holding breath for all they were worth -- she never quite caught up that last bound.

The day's next task was to deploy the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package ( ALSEP ); while they were parking the lunar rover, on which the TV camera was mounted, to observe the deployment, the rear steering began functioning without explanation.

If a pair is forced to lift or clear the shuttlecock, then they must defend: they will adopt a side-by-side position in the rear midcourt, to cover the full width of their court against the opponents ' smashes.

Orkney, attacking from the rear, now tried a different tactic – "... it came into my head to beat parley ", he later wrote, " which they accepted of and immediately their Brigadier de Nouville capitulated with me to be prisoner at discretion and lay down their arms.

In deploying his ships in this way, Brueys hoped that the British would be forced by the shoals to attack his strong centre and rear, allowing his van to use the prevailing northeasterly wind to counterattack the British once they were engaged.

Concurrently, until the early 1980s, U. S. Navy and U. S. Coast Guard captains selected for promotion to the rank of rear admiral ( lower half ), would wear the same insignia as rear admiral ( upper half ), i. e., two silver stars for collar insignia or sleeve braid of one wide and one narrow gold stripe, even though they were actually only equivalent to one-star officers.

The inscription declares, citing a 12 November 1548 papal bull of Pope Paul III, that God inflicts " maledictions and excommunications " on all who abandon a child of theirs whom they have the means to rear, and that they cannot be absolved unless they first refund all expenses incurred.

Semi-automatic pistols have a single fixed firing chamber machined into the rear of the barrel, and a magazine, usually removable, so they can be used to fire more than one round.

In 1954 – 55 they were blue with a white stripe and a pair of horseshoes at the rear of the helmet.

Nissan and Mitsubishi also introduced minivans to North America ; but like the Toyota Van Wagon, they had poor rear drive traction, had a bouncy ride due to the short wheelbase.

In 2010, the second-generation Volkswagen Sharan and SEAT Alhambra were presented, making the debut of the brand new Volkswagen group's MQB platform, and like their predecessors did, they were both again almost identical in design one to another, with the exception of the front fascias, rear ends and some minor details.

In addition to the multi-AV port ( almost same one as used on the Sega Genesis model 1, though they are not interchangeable ), all Neo Geo CD models had composite RCA A / V and S-Video out jacks on the rear of the console.

The Germans also decided to bring rear forces ( mostly Waffen-SS units and Einsatzgruppen ) into the conquered territories to counter the partisan activity they knew would erupt in areas they controlled.

Because they do not have internal body cavities, for over a century, Platyhelminthes were regarded as a primitive stage in the evolution of bilaterians ( animals with bilateral symmetry and hence with distinct front and rear ends ).

These were tank-heavy formations with combat support forces included so they could survive while operating in enemy rear areas without support from a parent front.

The most faithful of the reproductions are the Traditional Hunter Limited Series model 1885 Single Shots, as they have the original style steel crescent butt plates, and folding steel tang rear sights, with full length octagon barrels.

In 1966 Chrysler sold enough of the 426 Hemis to make it available again, and they put it in their new Dodge Charger which had a low-drag rear window that was radically sloped.

Graves at this point did not press the potential advantage of the separated French van ; as the French centre and rear closed the distance with the British line, they also closed the distance with their own van.