They are preoccupied riding herd on control panels, switches, flashing colored lights on pale green or gray consoles that look like business machines.

They are supplied, a batch at a time, by a secret source and are continually changed by Wisman or his staff, at random intervals.

They are mere fragments, just one portion of preprepared messages.

They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.

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.

They are in general those fears that once seemed to have been amenable to prayer or ritual.

They are non-conformists on principle.

They are full of contempt for the institution of matrimony.

They feel they are leagued against a hostile, persecutory world, faced with the concerted malevolent opposition of squares and their hirelings, the police.

They for their part are convinced that Holmes is too `` unorthodox '' and `` theoretical '' to make a good detective.

They are presumed to have plunged to a common grave in this fatal embrace.

They are determined to prove something.

They tell us, sir, that we are free, because we have in one hand a ballot, and in the other a stock certificate.

They are very small, and in the form of haystacks, without either chimney or windows.

They are situated in the midst of trees, which hang over them, and appear truly romantick.

On December 21, the day that the Irish House of Commons petitioned for removal of Sir Constantine Phipps, their Tory Lord Chancellor, Molesworth reportedly made this remark on the defense of Phipps by Convocation: `` They that have turned the world upside down, are come hither also ''.

Defoe then commented, `` If they Could Draw that young Gentleman into Their Measures They would show themselves quickly, for they are not asham'd to Say They want only a head to Make a beginning ''.

They emerged as interchangeable cogs in a faulty but formidable machine: shaved nearly naked, hair queued, greatcoated, jackbooted, and best of all -- in the opinion of the British professional, Major Semple-Lisle -- `` their minds are not estranged from the paths of obedience by those smatterings of knowledge which only serve to lead to insubordination and mutiny ''.

They are longing to see you ''.

They are not true because scientists or prophets say they are true.

They had been kind to us and we were indebted to them for one or two pleasant dinners, and for information as to where to shop, which dentist, doctor, plumber, and sitter to call ( not that there was much of a choice, since Catatonia was just a village ; ;

They included " a pleasant conceit of Vere, earl of Oxford, discontented at the rising of a mean gentleman in the English court, circa 1580.

They are very accommodating to the humans, and in fact their world is pleasant enough to be considered a paradise.

They put him in a second barrel, which boils, and a third, which warms to a pleasant temperature.

They liked the two streams ( later named Banner Creek and Elk Creek ) and the pleasant grassy hills, so they decided to stay.

They found that women with lower sexual desire responded to sexual stimuli in the picture recognition task more quickly but rated the sexual images as less arousing and less pleasant than the other desire groups.

" They drew near Valencia (…) Above all they praised the beauty of its women and its fresh cleanliness and charming language, which only Portuguese can compete with in being sweet and pleasant.

Although it was not more than two yards wide, and the slope was one of 75 percent, we gave it all kinds of pleasant names: the corridor, the gallery, the railroad, & c., & c ." They imagined all difficulties were at an end ; but a rock couloir, which they had hitherto not observed, lay between them and the final bit of ridge, where progress would be perfectly easy.

They tend to be more interested in the songs themselves and less in the " shanty style " of performance, in favor of music that may be considered more pleasant, less rough, and with more variation and interest than traditional shanties offer.

They suggested that it was agreeable to have a pleasant day with fewer cars and probably fewer accidents at least in some parts of the city, but considered that this was not the bottom line.

They are all large, deciduous trees, tall, with palmately 5-to 7-lobed leaves arranged spirally on the stems and length of, having a pleasant aroma when crushed.

They have a strong and pleasant fragrance of honey.

They were master smiths with good knowledge in various kinds of magic and rather greedy folk-in short, not very pleasant to do business with.

They generally required that all tunes remain cheerful and pleasant in tone to ensure that this occurred.

They took informal monastic vows on a night which to their pleasant surprise turned out to be the Christmas Eve in 1886.

They lack the relative personal freedom and simple pleasures of the proles, as they are under constant supervision by the Inner Party, and do not have the comforts of the Inner Party such as pleasant food, wine, cigarettes, coffee, tea, chocolate, personal servants, convenient transportation, and more comfortable and spacious homes, as well as the right to turn their telescreens off.

They had a pleasant conversation, and a Scouting badge was issued to Tsarevich Alexei.

They do so with pleasant, catchy music with a certain popular, erotic tone.

They learn that their parents were once the island's leaders and were responsible for many improvements meant to make island-life easier and more pleasant, but they were eventually overthrown by Ishmael, who believed that a strictly-enforced simple life ( combined with the opiate of the coconut cordial ) was the best way to avoid conflict.

Saul and Jonathan, beloved and pleasant in their life, And in their death they were not parted ; They were swifter than eagles, They were stronger than lions ... " How have the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle!

They set up the oil town of Ahmadi which had the appearance of a typical British garrison town, with thousands of trees lining streets of pleasant bungalows in which lived a remarkable group of dedicated engineers and administrators who built up the oil industry while at the same time training Kuwaitis to take over eventual control.

They put him in a second barrel, and the water boiled ; and finally a third barrel, which merely warmed up to a pleasant temperature.

They say that this understanding also includes the idea that there is an optimal degree of the pleasant.