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.

After the first two murders, the warning notes were rarely ignored.

There were two horses in the barn, a sway-backed dun and Jess Crouch's buckskin.

Four cars were parked at the curb, and two of them were police radio cars.

Her glance swung past the trailer where the two drivers were standing.

These two were going to be easy pickins.

In the past, the duties of the state, as Sir Henry Maine noted long ago, were only two in number: internal order and external security.

They were camped beside a large column-shaped boulder: a man, his lubra, and two children.

There were two rubbing sticks for making fire, two stones shaped roughly like knives, a woven-root container which held a few pounds of dried worms and the dead body of some rodent.

During his two terms the Constitution was tested and found workable, strong national policies were inaugurated, and the traditions and powers of the Presidential office firmly fixed.

But the fences were still in place fifty-odd years ago, and when we stood on the gate to look over, the sidewalk under our eyes was not cement but two rows of paving stones with grass between and on both sides.

The contributors to this testament were all well-known: a former Democratic candidate for President, a New Deal poet, the magazine's chief editorial writer, two newspaper columnists, head of a national broadcasting company, a popular Protestant evangelist, etc..

There never were two fames alike.

The sickness was gone and, after all, the two young couples were on their honeymoon.

On Sundays, with the permission of Captain Heard, who usually attended with two of his officers, services were held in the double cabin.

Somewhat daunted, the two American missionaries reached the police station where they were questioned by a most unfriendly clerk.

The last two were a red and a black chow.

Actually, two flags were used at the mansion -- a small one on rainy days, and a big one on bright days.

In his own state of New York, the two Democratic bellwethers, State Leader Hill and Tammany Boss Murphy, were saying nothing openly against Hearst but industriously boosting their own favorites, Murphy being for Cleveland and Hill for Parker.

Gaunt scaffoldings adjoined the ruins, and on the ground segments of columns two and a half to three feet in thickness were being fitted with sections cunningly chiseled to match exactly the fluting and proportion of the original.

There is a mediocre restaurant at Sounion and I fed a thin little Grecian cat and gave it two saucers of water -- there was no milk -- which it lapped up as though it were nectar.

When, in March, 1640, the two towns were united under Coddington, Gorton claimed the union was irregular and illegally constituted and that it had never been sanctioned by the majority of freeholders.

Consequently, Fred and Tom, the two who had been provided college educations, signed statements to the effect that each had received his bequest in full, and Effie and I were each allotted $5000.