They had been seen as soon as they left the ranch, picked out of the darkness by the weary though watchful eyes of two men posted a few hundred yards away in the windless shelter of the trees.

Brannon was hunkered down with his broad back to the left rear wheel, with the other two facing him.

While several yards from it, still concealed by the shrubbery, she'd seen two men on her left at the pool's edge.

Two uniformed officers, a couple of plain-clothesmen I knew, and two other men stood on a gray cement area next to the pool on my left.

He need only pick up one of the two red telephone receivers at his extreme left, right next to the big red button marked alert.

Some brilliant rookies nailed them down, so that this spring just two spots, left and right field, are really up for grabs.

So the Commission's announcements of the new Soviet shots have been confined to one or two bleak sentences, with the fission yield usually left vague.

We are left to choose between the two Lindemanns.

To his left, the two skiffs dented their sharp bows into the soft bank.

The two men sat for some time, savoring the pleasure of escape from peril and the relief such escape brings, before they got up and left the hotel, the doctor to go to the conference house and Alex to go to the main post office.

When more than two figures are separated by subtraction symbols the subtraction must be carried out from the left to right if the result is to be correct.

For the last two years, this frontier of the arts has produced a number of so-called `` non-dramas '' which have left indelible, bittersweet impressions on the psyche of this veteran theatregoer.

Starting in great force late in December, from a line stretching from East Prussia to Budapest, the Red armies had swept two hundred miles across Poland to the Oder, thirty miles from Berlin, and the Upper Danube region was being rapidly overrun, while the Western Allies had not yet occupied all of the left bank of the Rhine.

To be sure of matching color as well as form, pieces of cartoon were traced on the roughcast, and large samples painted in fresco, then left two months to dry out to their final key.

After the first two were blacked out, the third light was abandoned by a terrified Italian crew, who left their light to shine for nine minutes like an unerring homing beacon until British MP's shot it out.

The deeds of this team, through two seasons and in the two World's Series that followed, have been written and talked about until hardly a word is left to be said.

That night the two of them left for a week's honeymoon in Acapulco.

Just think of old Granther Stannard who pulled the teeth of Dark Younger ( her real name was Dorcas ), and because he bungled the job and left two protruding tusks she put such a hex on him that he thought his legs were made of glass.

-- Billy Gardner's line double, which just eluded the diving Minnie Minoso in left field, drove in Jim Lemon with the winning run with two out in the last of the ninth to give the Minnesota Twins a 6-5 victory over the Chicago White Sox Monday.

Jim Landis' 380-foot home run over left in the first inning gave the Sox a 1-0 lead, but Harmon Killebrew came back in the bottom of the first with his second homer in two days with the walking Bob Allison aboard.

It happened two weeks ago, the night before his father left on a business trip to South America.

However, the Greeks thought of the two qualities as complementary: the two gods are brothers, and when Apollo at winter left for Hyperborea, he would leave the Delphic oracle to Dionysus.

In 1911, he suffered an illness ( keratitis punctata ) which " left practically blind for two to three years ".

* 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Raymond: two divisions of James B. McPherson's XVII Corps ( ACW ) turn the left wing of Confederate General John C. Pemberton's defensive line on Fourteen Mile Creek, opening up the interior of Mississippi to the Union Army during the Vicksburg Campaign.

* February 25 – American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia ( the 500 prisoners had left Richmond, Virginia seven days before ).

Grant's superior, Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck, was concerned about Confederate reinforcements retaking the forts, so Grant left Wallace with his brigade in command at Fort Henry while the rest of the army moved overland toward Fort Donelson.

After Hood's Army of Tennessee was all but destroyed at the Battle of Nashville, Forrest distinguished himself by commanding the Confederate rear guard in a series of actions that allowed what was left of the army to escape.

Captain Sidney Smith Lee, the second commandant of midshipmen, and older brother of Robert E. Lee, left Federal service in 1861 for the Confederate States Navy.

The Union line, initially bolstered by the infantry, briefly seized the momentum and attacked the Confederate left flank, but Forrest launched an attack from his extreme right and left wings, before the rest of the federal infantry could take to the field.

The Confederate victory prevented a planned Union invasion thereafter of Texas. Mansfield, also known as the Battle of Sabine Crossroads, a Confederate victory, occurred with one year and one day left in the duration of the war.

In July 1861, at the start of the war, the Bossier Parish Police Jury appropriated $ 35, 000 for the benefit of Confederate volunteers and their family members left behind, an amount then considered generous.

Green, who with her own hands gathered and interred the bones and bodies of the Confederate dead left lying on the Resaca Battlefield, should always be sacred to us.

After the fall of Atlanta, a detachment of Sherman's cavalry was sent to raid the county ; but the Confederate Home Guard, made up of men too old for military duty, left the mountains on which Cornelia is situated and met the Yankee raiders at a narrow pass about four miles east of the town.

During the American Civil War, companies of Confederate soldiers left Cane's Landing aboard steamboats for the distant battlefields.

Some of the men left the safety and seclusion of their homes to fight for the preservation of slavery and the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War.

Ellis, the county clerk, before he left to join the Confederate Army in 1861.

Among the few buildings left standing was the Masonic Temple, which had been guarded under orders by a Confederate mason.

Cumberland County Civil War memorial in Crossville, listing Confederate veterans ( left ) and Union veterans ( right )

When Robert E. Lee retreated from Gettysburg, over 5000 wounded Confederate soldiers were left behind which were then treated by Dix's nurses, like Cornelia Hancock who wrote about what she saw —" There are no words in the English language to express the suffering I witnessed today ...."

An army of over 5, 500 troops under command of Major General George Stoneman ( 1822 – 1894 ) had left Knoxville, Tennessee, to raid Confederate targets in Virginia: the salt works at Saltville, the lead works at Wytheville and the iron works in Marion.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, Armistead and the other southerners left to join the Confederate States Army, while Hancock remained in the service of the United States.

James fell ill and was left behind when the Confederate forces later retreated.

Sheridan's plan of attack was to pressure the entire line lightly with his cavalry troopers, pinning it in position, while he massed all of the V Corps, under Maj. Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren, on the Confederate left flank.

At the Battle of Cedar Mountain on August 8, Hill launched a counterattack that stabilized the Confederate left flank, preventing it from being routed.

Three weeks later at the Second Battle of Bull Run ( Second Manassas ), Hill was placed on the Confederate left along the unfinished railroad cut and held it against repeated Union attacks.

His troops repulsed Confederate attacks later that day, but did not participate in the heaviest fighting of the day, which occurred on the Union left.