They both possess near classic stances, dug in firmly, arms high, set for fierce swings.

They went into the sun together and paraded grandly in their war clothes, painting their faces with the sacred attis dug far off in the cave of skeletons.

They dug a great canal to the sea, and alongside the bridges carved tunnels into the rings of rock so that ships could pass into the city around the mountain ; they carved docks from the rock walls of the moats.

They are kept in a den, most often dug into the ground, for warmth and protection.

They fight in a specially designed pit dug especially for the duel.

They nest in holes dug into trees or termite nests, laying 2-4 white or pastel-coloured eggs.

They dug four large reservoirs in Shandong to regulate water levels, which allowed them to avoid pumping water from local sources and water tables.

They lived on the lowest slopes of the Misty Mountains and lived in holes, or Smials, dug into the hillsides.

They later discovered that the peasants dug up the bones and then smashed them into many pieces, greatly reducing their scientific value, to maximise their payments.

They dug irrigation canals, some of which were over the original Hohokam canals, and by April 1878, water was flowing through them.

They are called wetering (" drainage waterway ") and are amalgamations of natural streams gradually channelised from the 18th century onwards and specifically dug canals

They endured a severe winter by living in temporary shelters dug into the south side of the hill on which the Manti Temple now stands.

They cover 6, 500 square kilometres and were all dug by the Edo people.

They believe that the alabaster shell-shaped lamps dug up in Sumerian sites dating 2, 600 BC were imitations of real shell-lamps that were used for a long time.

They are omnivorous, foraging in foliage, on tree trunks and limbs, and on the ground, taking insects and larvae ( often dug out from under the bark of trees ), fruit, and the nestlings of other birds.

They inhabit burrows, typically using either abandoned fox or porcupine burrows, or enlarging those dug by gerbils or other rodents.

They dismounted and dug at it with their riding-whips, ascertaining that it was indeed sculpture.

In one incident 300 fencers arrived at the roadline near Pungarehu, dug up the road, sowed it in wheat and constructed a fence, with a newspaper reporting: " They looked like an immense swarm of bees or an army of locusts, moving with a steady and uninterrupted movement across the face of the earth.

They were known to use traps, trolling, gillnets, spears, rakes, dip nets, and holes dug in the beach.

They hunted game, fished salmon, picked berries and dug roots.

They dug roughly so the Messerschmitt company could build an assembly plant to produce the Messerschmitt Me 262 and V-2 rockets.

They concentrated on areas directly in line with the Tower pillars, and in two of the three major pits they dug, found columns of discoloration, about 35 cm in diameter, which appeared to indicate the former presence of substantial wooden posts about 4 metres out from the tower walls, possibly supports for a wooden roof.

They typically consists of pits or trenches, to deep and to long, dug into the ground.

They were subsequently dug up and returned to the royal castle in Buda in 1853.

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

They had the house cleaned up by noon, and Wilson sent the boy out to the meadow to bring in the horses.

They looked up in surprise as Powers came in.

They had spent a million dollars, carving in a road, putting up buildings, drilling their haulage tunnel.

They lapsed into silence, and the freight wallowed up a hill, scooted down the other side, shaking and clanking to itself.

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 went up against an SS unit of comparable size, over a little rise of ground, over an open field.

They will -- when they give up the donkey and the elephant.

They feel that World War 3, has already begun, and they are setting themselves up as a `` last line of defense '' against the Communist advance.

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

They had been sitting too long to be able to stand up easily.

They spun and flung their rifles up.

They had cleaned up an old ice box and begun to buy fifty-pound blocks of ice in town, as the electric refrigerator came nowhere near providing enough ice for the crowds who ate and drank there.

They advanced in a line across the entrance hall to the stairway and up, with gingerly steps, towards the first landing.

They will give suggestions that can be worked up into field procedures.

They love to dust, scrub, polish, wax floors, move the furniture around from place to place, take down the curtains, put up new ones and have themselves a real ball.

They went up onto a front porch and into a small hallway where a dim bulb burned high in the ceiling.

`` They found something else up there '', she said half-aloud to the empty room.

They divide up the household chores: Cerv does most of the cooking ( breakfast and sandwich snacks, with dinner out ), Mantle supplies the transportation ( a white 1961 Oldsmobile convertible ), and Maris drives the 25-minute course from the apartment house to Yankee Stadium.

They showed they were glad that Carnegie would have a major orchestra playing there so often next season to take up the slack with the departure to Lincoln Center of the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Boston Symphony.

They must be freezing up there now.

They all had the hard look of gamblers who had stopped dreaming, who automatically turned the cards, hardly caring what showed up.

They bent over yellowed prayerbooks and looked up only to watch the teacher.

They picked up sticks and hurled them at the girl.