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.

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

A company of cavalry couldn't come in there if two men were guarding that trail ''.

You reckon there's two men in this state can shoot like that ''??

Zing was the creation of two men, Louis Thor and Bill Blake, partners in zing!!

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.

Actually, only two men know what the formula is, Blake and '' -- He stopped and looked at Thor's body.

It made only a tiny bump over the two men like a tire over a piece of gravel then moved on.

The two men in overalls stood just behind the blonde-headed man.

The Colt roared twice and two men dropped, writhing.

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.

The two men resemble each other closely in their cunning, their egotism, their relentlessness.

The company grew out of efforts by two completely inexperienced men in their late twenties, neither having a formal education applicable to, or experience in, manufacturing or selling our type of articles.

Into the texture of this tapestry of history and human drama Henrietta, as every artist delights to do, wove strands of her own intuitive insights into human nature and -- especially in the remarkable story of the attraction and conflict between two so disparate and fervent characters as this pair -- into the relations of men and women: `` In their relations, she was the giver and he the receiver, nay the demander.

It purported to be a reasonably serious attempt at a treatment of jazz musicians, their aims, their problems -- the tug-of-war between the `` pure '' and the `` commercial '' -- and seemed a promising vehicle, for the two men shared a common interest in jazz.

It is reasonable to affirm two propositions: Jews have been perceived by non-Jews as all things to all men ; ;

As summer cooled into fall and winter, even so the relationship between the two men continued to grow colder by the day, and by December of 1834 it was icy.

It was at this point that Pike decided to capitalize on the bad feelings between the two men.

His letter of October 26 named two of the men about whom Quiney had written to Shakespeare the day before.

There are only two men remaining in Congress who, with Rayburn, voted for the declaration of war against Germany in 1917.

`` Sure, we met a barrel of rich men but it's hard to find the real thing when you're young, beautiful and the toast of two continents '' `` Remember Fanny Brice promised my mother she would look after me on the road ''??

Prevot had briefed the two new men that afternoon.

But while the two men are riding into the country, where they are going to dinner, they are attacked in the dark of the forest by a band of thieves, who strip them of everything, including most of their clothes.

When finally the two bedraggled men reach their friend's home, Voltaire's fears are once again aroused.

He climbed, as quickly as he could urge his body, up the two unbroken flights to the third floor, pulling himself along on a delicate balustrade, all that remained of the building's beauty.

During each winter there is usually one fall of snow in the south and two in the north ; but the snow quickly disappears, and sometimes, during an entire winter, the ground is not covered with snow.

When King Constantine's eldest son Constans is murdered at Vortigern's instigation, the two remaining sons, Ambrosius and Uther, still very young, are quickly hustled into exile in Brittany.

This rehabilitation can take two or more years and is most effective when begun quickly.

As the world quickly moved to IP for both LAN and WAN uses, Apple was faced with maintaining two increasingly outdated code bases on an ever-wider group of machines as well as the introduction of the PowerPC based machines.

While the two herbicides that make up Agent Orange, 2, 4-D and 2, 4, 5-T, remain toxic over a short period — a scale of days or weeks — they quickly degrade.

Marlborough quickly moved forward two brigades under the command of General Wilkes and Brigadier Rowe to secure the narrow strip of land between the Danube and the wooded Fuchsberg hill, at the Schwenningen defile.

Under the guidance of Miltiades, the Athenian general with the greatest experience of fighting the Persians, the Athenian army marched quickly to block the two exits from the plain of Marathon, and prevent the Persians moving inland.

After the captains of the two teams met they quickly realized that the games each school played were still different.

They also discuss how alleged caste impurity and alleged racial inferiority, concepts often quickly assumed to be slightly different, are superficial terms, two faces of identical inner psychological processes, which expressed themselves in Japan and other countries of the world.

Russian and British troops were quickly alerted, but the two powers reached a compromise ; Russia was in possession of the oasis, and Britain believed it could keep the Russians from advancing any farther.

The two quickly sought to integrate their knowledge into an evolutionary program.

Evidence of debates which resulted in insults being exchanged quickly back-and-forth between two parties can be found throughout history.

Double neck electric guitars have two necks, allowing the musician to quickly switch between guitar sounds.

Another form is the " throw-up ", also known as a " bombing " which is normally painted very quickly with two or three colors, sacrificing aesthetics for speed.

Less than expected sales of the album ( more than two million ) and no further developments in the production of the film as a result brought the project to an indefinite hiatus in February 2001 and Gaines quickly faded into obscurity.

Much is made of how quickly Rossini's opera was written, scholarship generally agreeing upon two or three weeks.

The victory was very important, because two much stronger forts of Szolnok and Temesvár had fallen quickly during the summer.

This is crucial to finding an element in a hash table quickly, because two of the same element would both hash to the same slot.

Under fire from two sides, the Ottomans were quickly forced to withdraw to the Dardanelles.

The two young artists quickly became close friends, and Chang introduced Hergé to Chinese culture and the techniques of Chinese art.

Another way is to use a ' head shaking ' technique, frequently used in blues harmonica, in which the player moves the lips between two holes very quickly.

Both Syrian and Russian hamsters mature quickly and can begin reproducing at a young age ( 4 – 5 wk ), whereas Chinese hamsters will usually begin reproducing at two to three months of age, and Roborovskis at three to four months of age.

They had two sons, naming one Shear-Jashub, meaning " A remnant shall return " and the younger, Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz, meaning, " Spoil quickly, plunder speedily.

Iceman quickly befriends Hank McCoy ( Beast ), and the two serve as comic relief for the team.