The men fortified a blockhouse and got ready to fight, but meanwhile appealed to the King and again tried to arbitrate.

At the rear of the auditorium, upstairs, some men tried to push open the door to the box corridor.

They tried to outface him, but Joseph Simmons was as wide as two average men, and it would have taken braver men than these were to outface him.

The crawling men tried to rise and fell again.

`` We have tried to make both paths attractive, so that good men could find opportunity and satisfaction in either.

From the enlisted men he pistol-whipped to the subordinate officer whose wife he tried to rape, a lot of men had plenty of reason heartily to dislike Marcus Reno.

Eight men were tried together in U.S. District Court in Anniston, Ala., on charges of interfering with interstate transportation and conspiracy growing out of a white mob's attack on a Greyhound bus carrying the first of the Freedom Riders.

When they tried to depict the most abiding qualities of men, it was because men had common roots with the unchanging gods.

The West Memphis Three are three men who were tried and convicted as teenagers in 1994 of the 1993 murders of three boys in West Memphis, Arkansas.

Arnold generously opened his stores to Allen's hungry men, and tried to dissuade Allen from his objective, noting that it was likely the alarm had been raised and troops were on their way to St. John.

The Turks, having seized the summit of the mountain, and the French ( both soldiers and pilgrims ) having been taken by surprise, there was little hope of escape: those who tried were caught and killed, and many men, horses and baggage were cast into the canyon below the ridge.

He tried to gain, by his continued correspondence with Luther and other reformers such as Urbanus Rhegius, efficient men for the preaching of the gospel and for the organization of the evangelical church.

Towards evening Robert tried to retreat but was captured by Henry's men at a place three kilometres ( just under two miles ) north of Tinchebray where a farm named " Prise " ( grip or capture ) stands today on the D22 road.

Petrelis later tried to make news by standing on the U. S. Capitol steps and reading the names of " twelve men and women in politics and music who ... are secretly gay.

Snorri also reports that she had a net in which she tried to capture men who ventured out on the sea:

The other four men Thompson killed were shot by him in self-defense when they tried to rob him of gambling winnings.

The sheriff assured them that Rowland was safe inside, warned them that his men inside would shoot anyone who tried to enter the building, and to go home before someone got hurt.

However, one of the white men tried to disarm one of the black men.

T. Cullen Davis, Priscilla's husband and one of the richest men in Texas, is tried and found innocent for Andrea's murder, involvement in a plot to kill several people ( including Priscilla and a judge ), and a wrongful death lawsuit.

Miura Goro is recalled to Japan, and tried along with 55 other men ; all were acquitted for lack of evidence.

These men are utterly ignorant of everything English and could not if they tried instruct their pupils in any of the duties which the connection of the Province with England casts upon them.

The two men whipped their horses into town and flung themselves up the steps of the saloon, crying their intelligence.

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

He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.

They brought to it all the odors that clung to men like themselves, that of their own sweat, of campfire smoke, of horses and cattle.

For men who had left cattle alone after getting their first notices had received no second.

Captain Clemens' signal shot sent the men hurrying to their waiting teams.

Two men murmured with their heads together at the end of the bar, while the sleek-headed bartender absently polished a glass.

Indeed, you wouldn't live long, for the females either drive the men they've seized from neighboring islands back to their boats after exploiting them for amatory purposes, or they destroy them by revolting but ingenious methods.

In fact, one important aspect of their very religion is the annihilation of men ''.

they destroy such men with their damned tests.

But in the middle of the last century an island woman named `` Karipo '' seized a spear in the heat of an inter-tribal battle and rallied the women after their men had fled.

Wing Commanders in the RAF do not imply survival in the future either in their orders or in their attitudes, to their men or to themselves.

They bought rustled cattle from the outlaw, kept him supplied with guns and ammunition, harbored his men in their houses.

For it includes the emotional ties that bind men to their homeland and the complex motivations that hold a large group of people together as a unit.

Those three other great activities of the Persians, the bath, the teahouse, and the zur khaneh ( the latter a kind of club in which a leader and a group of men in an octagonal pit move through a rite of calisthenics, dance, chanted poetry, and music ), do not take place in buildings to which entrance tickets are sold, but some of them occupy splendid examples of Persian domestic architecture: long, domed, chalk-white rooms with daises of turquoise tile, their end walls cut through to the orchards and the sky by open arches.

The men crying love poems in an orchard on any summer's night are as often as not the lutihaw, mustachioed toughs who spend most of their lives in and out of the local prisons, brothels, and teahouses.

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.

They recognized that slavery was a moral issue and not merely an economic interest, and that to recognize it explicitly in their Constitution would be in explosive contradiction to the concept of sovereignty they had set forth in the Declaration of 1776 that `` all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

But before this came about, 214,938 Americans had given their lives in battle for the two concepts of the sovereign rights of men and of states.

He is the stern guardian of the status quo who has raised the utilitarian structures of the age, and he is the revolutionary poet with a gun in his hand who writes a tragic apologetic to posterity for the men he has killed.

With the money all but in hand, however, the Administration indicated that, instead of the 225,000 more men in uniform that President Kennedy had requested, the armed forces would be increased by only 160,000.

Two other reasons for this title are that he would support his aged father-in-law with his hand at Senate meetings, and that he had saved those men that Hadrian, during his period of ill-health, had condemned to death.

When the mouse turned around, bit the hand of its captor and escaped, he pointed this out to those present and said, " When the tiniest creature defends itself like this against aggressors, what ought men to do, do you reckon?

Ovid, on the other hand, supposes that the island was not uninhabited at the time of the birth of Aeacus, and states that, in the reign of Aeacus, Hera, jealous of Aegina, ravaged the island bearing the name of the latter by sending a plague or a fearful dragon into it, by which nearly all its inhabitants were carried off, and that Zeus restored the population by changing the ants into men.

Although nude men were depicted standing upright, most depictions of female nudity in Greek art occurred " usually with drapery near at hand and with a forward-bending, self-protecting posture ".

On the other hand, classical liberals believed that men of higher rank were motivated by ambition.

The Nationalists initially had superiority in arms and men, but their lack of popularity, infiltration by Communist agents, low morale, and disorganization soon allowed the Communists to gain the upper hand in the civil war.

These works were all hand copied and thus rarely available, beyond wealthy patrons or monastic men of learning: they were expensive, and usually written for those extending knowledge rather than those using it.

On the other hand, his experience was limited to command of at most 1000 men, and came only in remote frontier conditions that were far removed from the urban situations he faced during the Revolution at Boston, New York, Trenton and Philadelphia.

Fashionable young men of the upper classes would affect a walk with their right hand held fast to the base of their spines, and with a slight lean forward at the waist and a very slight twist toward the right with the left shoulder, allowing the left hand to swing free with the gait.

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.

The meetings are open and attendance consists of those men who have, or take, an interest in the matter at hand.

For centuries, this task was done primarily by skilled typographers known as " markup men " or " copy markers " who marked up text to indicate what typeface, style, and size should be applied to each part, and then passed the manuscript to others for typesetting by hand.

The heroine is at several points the catalyst to a powerful orgasm that condemned men are subjected to before they are slaughtered as they climax at the hand of those seeking the Mandragora flower.

In response, Moses bade Joshua lead the men to fight while he stood on a hill with the rod of God in his hand.

An article in another UK newspaper described a case in which " Gangsters wielding hand guns and a powerful MAC 10 machine pistol struck three times within hours in Wolverhampton "; in one event, a " group of men brandishing a MAC 10 machine pistol sprayed a nearby pub with a hail of bullets ".

The region of the north, in proportion as it is removed from the heat of the sun and is chilled with snow and frost, is so much the more healthful to the bodies of men and fitted for the propagation of nations, just as, on the other hand, every southern region, the nearer it is to the heat of the sun, the more it abounds in diseases and is less fitted for the bringing up of the human race.

In Plautus, on the other hand, the focus is still on the relationship between father and son, but we see betrayal between the two men that wasn ’ t seen in Menander.

He for whom Zeus the lord of thunder mixes the gifts he sends, will meet now with good and now with evil fortune ; but he to whom Zeus sends none but evil gifts will be pointed at by the finger of scorn, the hand of famine will pursue him to the ends of the world, and he will go up and down the face of the earth, respected neither by gods nor men.

Gary Westfahl points out that " Heinlein is a problematic case for feminists ; on the one hand, his works often feature strong female characters and vigorous statements that women are equal to or even superior to men ; but these characters and statements often reflect hopelessly stereotypical attitudes about typical female attributes.

* Cornicen ( Horn blower ): Worked hand in hand with the signifer drawing the attention of the men to the centurial signum and issuing the audible commands of the officers.

In Europe, the formal greeting form used from men to women is holding her presented hand ( usually the right one ) with the right hand and kissing it bowing ( the ultra formal, with the right knee on the floor, is only used in marriage proposals ).