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 are generally of low to moderate density, characterized primarily by single family structures.

They tend to be in the moderate left grouping, although much of the 79 Group was gradualist in approach.

They included future possible takeovers and mergers, healthy earnings reports particularly in the tech sector, and moderate inflationary numbers ; fueling speculation the Federal Reserve would not raise interest rates.

They were generally in control, although they had to compromise with the moderate Republicans ( the Democrats in Congress had almost no power ).

They also occur at more moderate latitudes, although in those cases they are weaker and less smooth and stable.

) They found only moderate success rates that decreased when vowel sounds were closer in tone.

They are tolerant of moderate frost, down to about − 10 ° C ( 14 ° F ).

They must be able to withstand traveling long distances at a moderate pace.

They perform best in zones with moderate temperatures, and equal amounts of mild rainfall and sunshine.

They also may be used along with systemic ( oral or injection ) corticosteroids or other medicines to treat severe disease or mild to moderate disease that has spread too far to be treated effectively by medicine inserted into the rectum alone.

They believe it protects the most powerful office in the country from control by what these proponents view as regional minorities until they can moderate their views to win broad, long-term support from across the entire nation.

They recommended Haiti as the ideal black homeland, due to its moderate weather conditions and independent black government.

They get married, but Laura is attracted more by his cleanliness and moderate wealth than by his character or potency.

They are then fried in olive oil together with the sliced onions at a moderate temperature until they are soft, but not brown.

They can be found in low to moderate elevations as high as the tree line, but rarely go that high.

They had moderate chart success, with their last three albums reaching the Billboard top 100, but difficulty keeping his bandmates together caused them to disband in early 1998.

They tend to prefer moderate light levels, but do not like deep shade.

They are considered moderate to difficult in cultivation, and require a controlled growing environment to achieve some degree of success.

They can grow continuously year round with no apparent dormancy period if they are kept warm and are moderate feeders in cultivation and must be kept moist all the time.

They found that users perceive greater usefulness and enjoyment with a mass customization interface vs. a more typical shopping interface, particularly in a task of moderate complexity.

They found the same pentatomy of five strongly supported groups that the previous study had found, but only weak to moderate support for any relationships between the five groups.

They are moderate to large in size and are distinguished among moths for their rapid, sustained flying ability.

They allow significant flexion and extension, moderate lateral flexion ( sidebending ), and a small degree of rotation.

They are capable of undergoing moderate changes in the shade of their colour to help regulate temperature.

They state that MEMRI consistently picks for translation and dissemination the most extreme views, which portray the Arab and Muslim world in a negative light, while ignoring moderate views that are often found in the same media outlets.