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.

Leonard J. Farwell, a fellow boarder at the Kirkwood House, awoke Johnson with news of Lincoln's having been shot at Ford's Theater ; Johnson rushed to the President's deathbed for a brief time, commenting, " They shall suffer for this.

They are capable of running rapidly in brief sprints up to, diving up to, and climbing trees proficiently when young through use of their strong claws.

They were often based on the extremely brief account in the Metamorphoses of Ovid ( who does not imply a rape ), though Lorenzo de ' Medici had both a Roman sarcophagus and an antique carved gem of the subject, both with reclining Ledas.

They contained brief, psychologically taut pieces, acclaimed for their classical diction, telling details, and the skilful use of colour.

They came for a brief social season to grand, gilded mansions with elaborate receiving, dining, music and ballrooms, but with few bedrooms, since the guests were expected to have cottages of their own.

They dissolved in 2001, but reunited in 2006 and again in 2007 for a few festival dates and brief US tours.

They would enjoy a brief renaissance in the 21st century as they were almost a drop-in replacement for the pick-up arms of Lenco GL75 record turntables from the 1970s.

* They Came And Ate Us ( Armageddon II: The B-Movie ) ( 1991 )-Pooley and Omally make a brief appearance as one of a number of " trick endings ".

They are Chaldean books [...] of Esdras, of Zoroaster and of Melchior, oracles of the magi, which contain a brief and dry interpretation of Chaldean philosophy, but full of mystery.

They do not assume the duties and powers of the Prime Minister in the latter's absence or illness, such as the powers to seek a dissolution of parliament, appoint peers or brief the sovereign.

They include Joe following the making of Little Britain series 2, which was screened on BBC Three and is included on the Little Britain Series 2 DVD ; a video diary of his brief cameo as a zombie, which appears on the UK Shaun of the Dead DVD ; and ' Hot Fuzz ': The Fuzzball Rally, where he followed his friends and collaborators, Edgar Wright, Nick Frost and Simon Pegg on the US press tour for their film, Hot Fuzz.

They have argued that what is known as the Schlieffen Plan may not have been an actual plan as such, but instead was laid down in one 1905 hypothetical memorandum and a brief 1906 addition.

They had several children including Charles Henry ( 1832 – 1897 ), who ran away from home at the age of thirteen to lead an adventurous life on the seas which included being shipwrecked on one of the islands off Hawaii, for a brief period, where he was married to a native.

They later separated, and Divine would go on to have a brief affair with the gay porn star Leo Ford, something that was widely written and gossiped about in the gay press.

They were marketed for a brief period in the 1990s under the " Nuttall's " brand when Callard and Bowser was under the ownership of Terry's.

They were free improvisations and served as brief introductions to larger pieces of music or particular larger and more complex movements ; lutenists also used them to test the instrument or the acoustics of the room before performing.

They soon travelled to Vienna, where Field took a brief course in counterpoint under Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, and in early winter arrived in Saint Petersburg.

They eventually left Adekunle and formed a brief partnership as Shina Adewale & the International Superstars before beginning solo careers.

They were able to avoid either capture or destruction and for a brief time they had a considerable impact on the stability of the district particularly on the Arawa tribe.

They have a very brief affair which Marilee ends, claiming that Rabo is not the man she needed at the time.

They were married at their Beverly Hills home on 16 August 2008 ( during the brief window wherein same-sex marriage was legal in California ), witnessed by their mothers and 19 other guests.

They make a brief cameo in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace taking pot shots at the Pod Race drivers.

They called for giving the field a name " which is brief, definite, distinctive ".

They decided that Highway Star wasn't a punk enough name, and after a brief flirtation with the name " The Fast ", decided to call themselves Stiff Little Fingers, after the Vibrators song of the same name.