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 seemed then to have had a single mind and body, a mutuality which had been accepted with the fact of their youth, casually.

They were held together by pegs and withes and in later times drawn by a single ox in thills.

They raced and maneuvered for war, swinging their horses in single file and then abreast like cavalry.

They provided a wealth of details used to attack the theory of a single evolutionary process.

They have a heart that consists of a single ventricle and two atria.

Saturated hydrocarbons can also combine any of the linear, cyclic ( e. g., polycyclic ) and branching structures, and they are still alkanes ( no general formula ) as long as they are acyclic ( i. e., having no loops ). They also have single covalent bonds between their carbons.

They were well-planned: vast sections or wings erected were finished in a single stage, rather than in increments.

They can be further classified as homogeneous ( consisting of a single phase ), or heterogeneous ( consisting of two or more phases ) or intermetallic ( where there is no distinct boundary between phases ).

They are widely known for their hit single " Deeper Shade Of Soul ", which charted at number 21 in the United States on Billboard Hot 100.

They have a broad, flat carapace, which conceals the head and bears a single pair of compound eyes.

They and other regions were consolidated into a single département in 1790 under the name Basses-Pyrénées, a name which persisted until 1970.

They may have single connector to connect one disk array controller or multiple connectors that can be connected to one or more controllers in arbitrary way.

They operated under a series of laws that were added from time to time, but Roman law was never reorganised into a single code until the Codex Theodosianus ( AD 438 ); later, in the Eastern Empire the Codex repetitæ prælectionis ( 534 ) was highly influential throughout Europe.

They trace all evil back to a single source, the conspirators and their agents.

They are represented today by a single genus located exclusively in New Zealand.

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

They were accepted by the Southern League and played just a single season ( 1920 – 21 ) before being voted into the Football League.

They found only a single container that was still sealed by the High Priest, with enough oil to keep the menorah in the Temple lit for a single day.

They lived in a run-down studio in Chelsea, made up of a single large room with a curtain to separate the kitchen.

They influenced French physicist André-Marie Ampère's developments of a single mathematical form to represent the magnetic forces between current-carrying conductors.

They contain only constant numbers and a single variable without an exponent.

They note that under these two proposed rules all of the present names for 99 % of the planets around single stars are preserved as informal forms of the IAU sanctioned provisional standard.

They say that it requires the complete renaming of only two exoplanetary systems: The planets around HW Virginis would be renamed HW Vir ( AB ) b & ( AB ) c, while those around NN Serpentis would be renamed NN Ser ( AB ) b & ( AB ) c. In addition the previously known single circumbinary planets around PSR B1620-26 and DP Leonis ) can almost retain their names ( PSR B1620-26 b and DP Leonis b ) as unofficial informal forms of the "( AB ) b " designation where the "( AB )" is left out.

They are different from earthquakes followed by a series of aftershocks by the fact that no single earthquake in the sequence is obviously the main shock, therefore none have notable higher magnitudes than the other.