They had been seen as soon as they left the ranch, picked out of the darkness by the weary though watchful eyes of two men posted a few hundred yards away in the windless shelter of the trees.

They greeted the news angrily, as though they had been cheated of purpose.

They had pistols in their hands.

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

They had chosen this night purposely.

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

They had for cover both darkness and a summer storm.

They trailed him across the wide hallway to the parlor, four roughly garbed and tough-looking men who probably had never before ventured into such a house.

They had never seen a tultul but they had heard about it from their fathers ''.

They had fought from caves, and the marines resorted to burning them out.

They couldn't have much dough, but then none of the freight-bums Feathertop rolled had much.

They believe that if the South had been let alone it would have produced a civilization superior to that of modern America.

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 thought of themselves, to use Jefferson's words, as `` the Argonauts '' who had lived in `` the Heroic Age ''.

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 look as if they had been sculptured with an unsharpened chisel.

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 had lost twice with the radical Bryan, and were having no part of Hearst, whom they considered more radical than Bryan.

They had to take blood samples to the laboratory to test them, for one thing, and there was much required preliminary procedure.

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 had other topics of conversation, besides their news from courts and fairs, which were of interest to Othon, the builder of castles in Wales and churches in his native country.

They had my mother's opinion of him: that he was too sharp or a little too good to be true.

They also caught on a little bit on how to smile a lot without your lips trembling.

They understood and teased me a bit about it.

They also sold the exotic Olivetti M20, a very early 16 bit personal computer that was one of the very few systems to use a Z8000 CPU.

He also explains how brutal and unscrupulous these Romans must have been: " They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force "-After some silence, Marlow abruptly starts up again saying, in a hesitating voice, " I suppose you fellows remember I did once turn fresh-water sailor for a bit.

They were born in Takamagahara, the world of Heaven at the time of the creation, as Amenominakanushi 天御中主 ( Central master ), Takamimusubi ( High creation ), Kamimusubi ( Divine creation ), and a bit later Umashiashikabihikoji ( Energy ) and Amenotokotachi ( Heaven ).

They might have assimilated and became extinct a bit faster than the other Prussians.

They require heating before the magnetic orientation of a bit can be changed ; and bit-patterned recording ( BPR ).

They used the 5 bit baudot code and generally worked at 60 words per minute.

They kind of remind me a little bit of the Soundgarden style, that sort of Seattle sound … just one of them.

They failed completely to make any inroads with the Seattle Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church, who had recently built Sacred Heart Church there ; they did a bit better with the Freemasons ' Nile Temple, which they were able to use for the duration of the fair and which then returned to its previous use.

They stocked up on provisions from local merchants, visited the colorful saloons for a bit of gambling and carousing, then galloped northward with their cattle only to whoop it up again on their way back.

They are able to explain how to perform an action, but unable to " imagine " or act out a movement such as " pretend to brush your teeth " or " pucker as though you bit into a sour lemon.

They specifically mention the use of ASCII character set " transmitted as a 8-bit byte with the high-order bit cleared to zero " and some of these

He first appeared on film in 1959 in a bit part in The Day They Robbed the Bank of England.

They were often fed first bit of every food.

They refer to " Ed Logg " ( designing and programming )) and " Franz Lanzinger " ( who helped a bit in designing and testing ).

They find Pierson, still barely alive, who with his last bit of strength draws a primitive diagram in the sand with his finger.

They are seen infrequently in the first season, a bit more in the second, but at the start of season three, they become regulars and take over the Minuteman Café from Kirk Devane.

He said " They had charm, aggression, and ... if not exactly eroticism, then something a little bit dangerous and exciting.

They were ejected from the studio, and a spokesperson for The Word later said that one of the band's friends had " bit the face of a member of our production team.

They are generally a bit heavier in build than their Thoroughbred cousins, but have refined, solid legs and powerful shoulders and hindquarters.

They are calm and docile animals, but tend to be a bit more nervous than other dairy cow breeds.

They can drop classes and change grading options up to the last day of the quarter, a privilege intended to encourage students to attempt taking many units and advanced classes without being penalized in the case that they bit off more than they could chew.

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.