They also met their first priests, with their white tunics and their long hair impregnated with human blood ; this was the end of the Indians ' friendly conduct: they convoked a great number of warriors and ordered them to burn some dry reeds, indicating to the Spaniards that if they weren't gone before the fire went out, they would be attacked.

They have a relatively long, spiral-shaped gut to enable them to digest this diet.

They have many classes of ecological effects ; there are particular species that are adapted to practically every kind of diet.

" They serve a valuable purpose in paleontology because they provide direct evidence of the predation and diet of extinct organisms.

They are an important part of the diet of most heterotrophs ( including humans ).

They are primarily granivorous, but euphoniines include considerable amounts of arthropods and berries in their diet, and Hawaiian honeycreepers evolved to utilize a wide range of food sources, including nectar.

They have four chambered stomachs, as in all ruminants, and the first chamber has adapted to their specialized diet.

They all received the same diet but, in addition, group one was given a quart of cider daily, group two twenty-five drops of elixir of vitriol ( sulfuric acid ), group three six spoonfuls of vinegar, group four half a pint of seawater, group five received two oranges and one lemon, and the last group a spicy paste plus a drink of barley water.

They were ethnically diverse, so far as can be judged, but they spoke languages of the West Semitic language family ( probably mutually intelligible ) and shared a common culture in many respects, including religion, diet, and economic and political organization.

They are an important prey species, being the primary diet in prairie species such as the black-footed ferret, swift fox, golden eagle, American badger, and ferruginous hawk.

They can be difficult pets to care for, requiring regular attention and a very specific diet of grasses and hay.

They would have been kept by the Scots and Picts, and used to help in providing part of their diet, namely hoofed game ( archaeological evidence likely supports this in the form of Roman pottery from around 1st Century AD found in Argyll which depicts the deerhunt using large rough hounds ( these can be viewed at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh ).

They have four main taxa in their diet: calanoid copepods, cyclopoid copepods, daphnia, and leptodora.

They feed on insects and fruit, and their broad bills and weak legs reflect their diet and arboreal habits.

They replaced their earth lodges with portable tipis and switched their diet from fish and agricultural produce, to mainly bison and wild fruits and vegetables.

They reveal a diverse and lavish diet for those of the upper class.

They can eat a vegetarian diet of water plants, but prefer to scavenge the bottom for insects, crustaceans ( including zooplankton ), crawfish, and benthic worms.

They do not respond well to sudden changes in diet ; they may stop eating and starve rather than accepting new food types.

They were, like those babies, nearly dead from hunger ..." When Field Marshal Montgomery wanted to allot each German citizen a guaranteed diet of only 1, 000 calories a day and justified this by referring to the fact that the prisoners of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp had received only 800, Gollancz wrote about starvation in Germany, pointing out that many prisoners never even received 1, 000 calories.

They suggest that to add nutrients to its diet, Megatherium may have taken over the kills of Smilodon.

They claim that this pursuit of physical beauty even encourages some women to diet to the point of harming themselves.

They can survive without drinking water for long periods due to the high water content of the succulent foliage in their diet.

They attribute the increase primarily to a shift from a hunter-gatherer to an agricultural diet on the islands, with the introduction of rice.

They were active throughout Russia and followed a strict Vegetarian diet.

They form an important item of diet for many species and the staple diet of some such as the African ant Amblyopone pluto, which feeds solely on geophilomorph centipedes, and the South African Cape black-headed snake Aparallactus capensis.

They mounted up and rode slowly behind the others at a safe distance.

They poured through the opening in the valley, then spread out in a long line to come at us, brandishing their lances and filling the morning with their spine-chilling scalp cry.

They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.

They stared at him.

`` They were supposed to meet Thor at nine PM for a conference concerning the ad campaign for their soap, a new angle based on this SX-21 stuff ''.

They came upon cheetal deer at woodland pools.

They include the Navy's Atlantic Command at Norfolk, Virginia, which is in contact with the Polaris subs ; ;

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 all swung at the same instant in the same direction.

They lay, with the birds hopping from branch to branch above them and the bright sky peeping down at them.

They had located the runway of a colony of ants and as the ants came out of the ground, the boys picked them up, one at a time, and pinched them dead.

They roll at night in ashes to keep warm and their second skin has a light dusty cast to it.

They have an ancestry extending back, however, at least to 1728, when William Byrd described the Lubberlanders he encountered in the back country of Virginia and North Carolina.

They were in fact quietly laughing at him, for their King wished to have nothing to do with the Western world.

They seemed to be at the White House half the time.

They had watered their stock at immense profit, then had raised the price of coal fifty cents a ton, netting themselves another $20,000,000 in annual profit.

`` They straggle at such a rate '', he told the commander-in-chief, `` that if the enemy were enterprising, they might get two from us, when we would take one of them, which makes me wish General Howe would go on, lest any incident happen to us ''.

They are enacted at the heart of the body politic.

They laughed and, true to national form and manners, never talked long or solemnly on any subject at all, but some of them worried out loud about short memories and ghosts.

They start on the East side of the Schuylkill, have to cross over to the West to use the expressway and cross over again to the East at their destination.

They ate the cafeteria food with its orange sauces and Scotty gazed without interest at his food, the teachers, the heroic baronial windows, and the bright ranks of college banners.

They lay on his lap, palms up, stiffly motionless, the tapered fingers a little thick at the joints.

They turned at the bottom of Kate's steps and moved off in the direction of the park.

They set bouncing betties to jump and explode at testicle level while we more mercifully had them go off at the head.