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 do not, however, gain " hit points " and do not become significantly harder to kill.

They are harder to clean ( due to the limited movement of the keys and their multiple attachment points ) but also less likely to get debris in them as the gaps between the keys are often less ( as there is no need for extra room to allow for the ' wiggle ' in the key as you would find on a membrane keyboard ).

They were not removed until the advent of molecular data in the late 20th century ; their previous inclusion made it harder to determine the relationships within the Laurales and between the Laurales and other groups.

They are more expensive, and harder to repair.

They state that applications are hard to design, toolkits are harder, and frameworks are the hardest to design.

They make it harder to change the name or type of a variable, function, member or class.

They make it harder to read the code.

They are crepuscular, tending to be most active during dawn and dusk, when it is harder for predators to spot them.

They traded in their jangle pop sound for a harder rock edge, or as Gillespie said, " e had found rock ' n ' roll.

They usually operate by having a series of sharp points of some substance that is harder than the wood being cut.

They frequently juxtapose seductive soft elements, often with strongly sexual overtones, with harder materials, often spikey or in some way appearing to constrain the softer parts, resulting in work which is both sensual and threatening.

They also make anti-dive suspension characteristics harder to achieve as the moment created by the act of braking is not reacted on the suspension arms.

They hunt in murky waters because it is harder for the prey to see the shark coming.

They have pledged to teach him " laughter and tears ", though in different ways, as Rand has conditioned himself not to feel emotion by reciting the names of all the women who have died directly because of his actions over and over to himself, forcing himself to become harder and harder, or as he puts it, " harder than steel ".

They suggested that those who were equipped with this emotional response could more effectively stop infidelity and those without the emotional response had a harder time doing so.

They said, after the mission, that this got harder as the mission went on, though this may have been due to a lack of sleep.

They helped to define harder house tracks relying more heavily on bass and volume.

They also noted that comic panels forced the player to interpret each panel for themselves, and " the nuances are there in the head of the reader [...] it would be much harder to reach that level with in-game or even prerendered cinematics.

They are harder to find, but using only smooth numbers keeps the vectors and matrices smaller and more tractable.

They played Sanix at Global Arena at the start of Buck Shelford's reign as head coach and won comfortably, though they had a harder game on the same tour in Tokyo against Suntory Sungoliath.

They are a nocturnal species, which makes them even harder to document.

They were the harder decks to construct competitively.