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 looked a good deal alike, Morgan thought.

They were all good men.

`` 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 for their part are convinced that Holmes is too `` unorthodox '' and `` theoretical '' to make a good detective.

They hire a good deal of local labor, including two members of our Trustee Board.

They all sat around and drank ice water, and the men smoked, and everybody had a good time.

They are two good colts of different type.

They tasted good to him, so he brought some to breakfast to eat in his cereal bowl with milk and honey.

They had courage but their meager training consisted of weekend hops in good weather, in and out of established airports, And the increasingly cold weather soon raised hob with the water cooled engines of their World War 1, planes.

They suggested several new foods, and usually I found them good, except the sweets, which I think I could learn to like.

They always have a good orchestra ''.

They specialize in out-of-the-way items and old French music naturally occupies a good deal of their attention.

`` They make us conformists look good ''.

They lay months away from the nearest Earth star by jump drive, and no one knew what they were good for, although it was felt that they would probably be good for something if it could only be discovered -- much like the continent of Antarctica in ancient history.

They are generally good in all bottoms, but not exceptional in any.

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 attest that whatever we are obliged to do must be possible, and achieving the perfect good of both happiness and moral virtue is only possible if a natural moral order exists.

They are then sent on what Paul calls a " good job.

Plate anemometers have been used to trigger high wind alarms on bridges. They are used on these high places because they are in a plate shape ; has a good measurement status on higher altitudes.

They become semi-aggressive as they age, but are by nature schooling fish, and a group of at least three is a good idea.

They also assume, in their view of theology, that God always rewards good and punishes evil, with no apparent exceptions allowed.

The " H-H-L " team impressed Hollywood with its success ; as Life wrote in 1957, " fter the independent production of a baker's dozen of pictures it has yet to have its first flop ... ( They were also good pictures.

They reached back to Claudius in contrast with Nero, to show that they were good associated with good.