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materialize anywhere, at any time, to dispense an ancient brand of justice the men of the new West had believed long outdated.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 '' ; ;

It is also possible, but equally doubtful, that he actually shot down the hundreds of men with which his legend credits him.

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

On home sets children were watching the death throes of men who were shot before the paredon, the firing wall.

In County Louth, Volunteers shot dead an RIC man near the village of Castlebellingham on 24 April, in an incident in which 15 RIC men were also taken prisoner.

The ostensible comedies are shot through with exposed emotions, with the subtlest views of the sex war, and with a wry acknowledgment of the incompatibility of men and women.

Created by Mother, the campaign will begin with a TV advert shot in front of a live audience, featuring four stand-up comedians, two men and two women, having the debate over which gender is the messiest.

" The men were shot.

In the speech he euologised the actions of a German Nazi and Freikorps officer, Leo Schlageter who had been shot whilst engaging in sabotage against French troops occupying the Ruhr ; in doing so Radek sought to explain the reasons why men like Schlageter were drawn towards the far right, and attempted to channel national grievances away from chauvinism and towards the support of the working movement and the Communists

Gilliam also worked on the matte paintings, useful in particular for the very first shot of the three wise men against a starscape and in giving the illusion of the whole of the outside of the fortress being covered in graffiti.

Strickland and Hardy suggest that " even at a range of 240 yards heavy war arrows shot from bows of poundages in the mid-to upper range possessed by the Mary Rose bows would have been capable of killing or severely wounding men equipped with armour of wrought iron.

The city was the site of the Nag Hammadi massacre in January 2010, wherein eight Coptic Christians were shot dead by three men.

Lame men and blind women shot ; children and hoary-headed grandsires ruthlessly swept down!

The shot put competition for men has been a part of the modern Olympics since their revival in 1896, women's competition began in 1948.

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

The fourth came in St. Joseph, Missouri where Thompson and his hired bodyguard between them shot two men attempting to rob a poker game ( again, the victims were known criminals and no charges were pressed ).

The arrow was shot by a nobleman named Walter Tirel, and, although the description of events was later embroidered with more information, the earliest statement of the event was in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, which noted that the king was " shot by an arrow by one of his own men ".

* January 28 – A U. S. Air Force jet training plane that strays into East Germany is shot down by Soviet fighters near Erfurt ; all 3 crew men are killed.

Their commander, Colonel Robert Shaw is shot leading the attack and was buried with his men ( 450 Union, 175 Confederate ).

The shots of women and men singing in the arches were replaced with a single shot of men ( on the top row of arches ) and women ( on the bottom row of arches ) singing one short verse.

All were shot at by Patton at some point, who first knocked down a horse under a rider at close range with a pistol shot, causing that rider to be killed shortly after by fire from several men, including Patton.

Longstreet was wounded during the assault — accidentally shot by his own men only about away from the place where Jackson suffered the same fate a year earlier.

The poor, deluded, negroes would run up to our men, fall upon their knees, and with uplifted hands scream for mercy but they were ordered to their feet and then shot down.