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 would have to go west through the narrow river valley that separated Leyte from Samar and hope that it didn't close in before they returned.

They close sometime after eight.

They passed close by the turn to Bishopsgate.

They remained close together, their air trail wiggling like serpents traveling side by side.

They remain in amplexus with their cloacae positioned close together while she lays her eggs and he covers them with his sperm.

In They Do It With Mirrors ( 1952 ), it is mentioned that Miss Marple grew up in a cathedral close, and that she studied at an Italian finishing school with Americans Ruth Van Rydock and Caroline " Carrie " Louise Serrocold.

They also emphasize his close relationship with St Anthony, who is almost universally revered throughout Christendom.

They gained control of the Dressau City Council and moved to close the school.

They catch cats and dogs when they come too close to the pack.

They are typically used for tight, controlled shots that are close to the basket, although some players use them for short drives where trees or other obstacles come into play.

They inhabited open forest, woodlands, and grasslands, possibly staying close to water, and eating leaves, shrubs, and some grasses.

They remained close throughout life, so much so that the only time Beatty felt despair was at his brother's death.

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They were a creation of those who were very holy and close to God.

" ( See: Maenchen-Helfen The World of the Huns p 12 ) They also fought using iron swords and lassos in close combat.

They were seen as a " safe " basing option, one that would keep the deterrent force close to home where it would be difficult to attack.

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They imported many customs and institutions from their homelands in Western Europe, and there were close familial and political connections with the West throughout the kingdom's existence.

They came close to fighting several times, and both sides finally backed down and the expedition continued on to Arikara territory.

They fought packed in a close rectangular formation, typically eight men deep, with a leader at the head of each column and a secondary leader in the middle, so that the back rows could move off to the sides if more frontage was needed.

They have also been used in close quarters combat ( CQC ) settings where a small weapon is needed ( e. g. by special forces attacking buildings or tunnels ).

They came in two columns, pressed very close to the walls of the street, which is very wide and beautiful and so straight that you can see from one end to the other.

They are loosely bound to each other by mutual gravitational attraction and become disrupted by close encounters with other clusters and clouds of gas as they orbit the galactic center, resulting in a migration to the main body of the galaxy as well as a loss of cluster members through internal close encounters.

They are often incapable of efficiently creating a solid region of color, but can hatch an area by drawing a number of close, regular lines.