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 brought to it all the odors that clung to men like themselves, that of their own sweat, of campfire smoke, of horses and cattle.

`` They knew I was a good sharecrop farmer back in Carolina, but out West was a chance to build a real farm of our own.

They bring an inextricable component of value within themselves, with attractions and repulsions native to their own quality.

They had risen from humble beginnings by their own diligence and astuteness, they were unfettered by the codes that bound nobles like Othon or even the older generation of clerks like Hotham, and they were working for an end that their opponents had never even visualized.

They know that they must depend heavily on factors outside their own control.

They did not know who they were or know their own worth.

They stayed in their own world on the bluff, waiting for letters and the peddler, bringing the news.

They are chosen by the Foundation's Board of Trustees on the bases of their own first-rate accomplishments in their different fields of scholarship and the arts.

They sometimes pay more attention to their rights than to their own internal problems of government.

They generally vote so as to serve their own constituency, and if the constituency should be solidly middle class or solidly lower class, they might be expected to vote and work for middle- or for lower-class interests in education.

They echo the words with which he has described his own vision of the dying child who `` trembles and begs for mercy -- and there is no mercy ''.

They overran the 7th Cav's forward machine-gun positions through sheer weight of numbers, over piles of their own dead.

They had the unspoken support of President-elect Kennedy, whose own legislative program was menaced by the Rules Committee bottleneck.

They want to own a junior-grade castle, or a manor house, or some modest little place where Shakespeare might once have staged a pageant for Great Elizabeth and all her bearded courtiers.

Biological anthropologists are interested in both human variation and in the possibility of human universals ( behaviors, ideas or concepts shared by virtually all human cultures ) They use many different methods of study, but modern population genetics, participant observation and other techniques often take anthropologists " into the field ," which means traveling to a community in its own setting, to do something called " fieldwork.

They usually use existing burrows of aardvarks, porcupines or springhares, despite being capable of creating their own.

: They Came to Baghdad was inspired by Christie's own trips to Baghdad with Mallowan, and involves an archaeologist as the heroine's love interest.

They were allowed to have family members bring in their own food and were on good terms with the guards from whom they learned the latest news.

They had five or six children together, including Edward the Elder, who succeeded his father as king, Æthelflæd, who would become Queen of Mercia in her own right, and Ælfthryth who married Baldwin II the Count of Flanders.

They have no misgivings about the death penalty ; their position is that evil-doers who deserve death should be killed, and that a king in particular is obliged to punish criminals and should not hesitate to kill them, even if they happen to be his own brothers and sons.

They started out translating N. W. A songs to Dutch, though later wrote their own rhymes in Dutch.

They were very controversial in their own day, as they remain to the present day.

They shared a flat with Jackson's brother Adalbert until 1885 when Housman moved to lodgings of his own.