They could hear the pony's feet on the dry leaves for a while, then the sound faded out.

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 were married over the week-end, though he was easily sixty and she could not have been even thirty.

They could no longer afford the luxury of the canvas sweat bag that cooled it by evaporation.

They could come on him now without difficulty.

They explained that they desired only to stop in India until a ship traveling on to Burma could be found.

They allotted $500,000 three years ago to support Interama until its own financing could be arranged.

They were poems in a strange language, of which he could barely touch a meaning -- enough to make his being ache with the desire for the fullness he sensed there.

They could have been perfectly happy here for ten whole days.

They could not guess that from their concepts of liberty and freedom would some day be born a new nation that for years would be the symbol of hope to the oppressed countries of the world.

They could be sent to U.S. ports for rulings whether cargo should be confiscated.

They could be used to attack a nation's people ( which would inevitably mean the loss of the attacker's own people ), or they could be used with discrimination to destroy the enemy's military force.

They should know simple exercises that could prepare less fortunate children for the sports we will demand be taught.

They supplemented their income by small government assistance, by tutoring and economizing wherever they could.

They could be done or left undone and nobody really gave a damn.

They then point out that with our present lack of knowledge of all the factors concerned in the rise and fall of epidemics, it is unlikely that a planned episode could be initiated.

They felt that they too could counteract the upward arm movement by a voluntary effort after they had once experienced the reaction.

They felt that they were relaxing as much as they could and that any control factors which might be present to prevent response must be on an unconscious level.

They figured prominently in the Balafrej government of May, 1958, which the King was reportedly determined to keep in office until elections could be held.

They threatened constantly to give the British a hold on this region, from whence they could move easily down the rivers to the French settlements near the Gulf.

They suggested several new foods, and usually I found them good, except the sweets, which I think I could learn to like.

They knew that I was still grieving over the tragic event, and they felt that if I could see the recovery and the spirit of the people, who hold no grudge, but who also regret Pearl Harbor, I would be happier and would understand better a new Japan.

They were both breathing heavily, out cold, and Shayne didn't think either of them had recognized him or could describe him.

They were west of the Sabine, but only God knew where.

They were engulfed by the weird silence, broken only by the low, angry murmur of the river.

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 squatted on their heels with their heads bent far forward, their eyes only a few inches from the ground.

They arise in situations in which one believes that what happens depends not only on the external world, but also on the precise pattern of behavior of the individual or group.

They move only in accordance with what is in their natures.

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 were aware that soldiers went to town, in more ways than one, because of the monotony of camp life, to find the only release available in the absence of movies, reading rooms, and playing fields with adequate athletic equipment.

They stopped expecting her to die the next minute, but only in the next day or two.

They caused my love for Jessica to become warmer and at the same time more hopeless, as if my adolescent self knew that only torment would ever bring me the courage to ask to see her again.

They may be claimed only by itemizing them on page 2 of Form 1040.

They serve not only as spokesmen for their areas, but they also contribute to top-level decision making.

They involve only simple mathematics that are taught in grammar school arithmetic classes.

They gathered roots, bulbs, odd ferns, leaves, and bits of resin from the rare Santa Lucia fir, which exists only on a forty-five mile strip on the westerly side of these mountains.

They were pushed gently into the room by Arlene -- whose only part appearing were hands that crept quickly back around to the kitchen side of the door.

They initiate campaigns, so to speak, even if this initiation is diffused among them, and their concerted action only psychologically organized.

They are in themselves neutral, and, so far as they get a moral quality, they get it only through being invested with it by the attitude of the onlooker.

They had traveled only a short distance when they spotted five Mexicans riding along a horse-trail across the stream just ahead of them.

They are the only poems that he rearranged as a group between their first appearance ( in Satires Of Circumstance ) and the publication of the Collected Poems.

They got it over the side and clambered aboard only a few minutes before their schooner went under.

They discovered that, although 42 per cent of a sample of Catholic students and 15 per cent of the Protestants believed it important to live in accordance with the teachings of their religion, only 8 per cent of the Jewish students had this conviction.