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 should sense the tremendous significance of joining the spiritual succession reaching back to Christ our Lord and forward to an eternal fellowship with the saints of the ages.

They won the first eight matches in succession including a 5 – 0 whitewash in 1920 – 1921 at the hands of Warwick Armstrong's team.

They grow in succession, with the oldest growing from the bottom of the trunk and successively younger ones from the top.

* They hold that the continuing practice among many Independent clergy of one person receiving multiple ordinations in order to secure apostolic succession, betrays an incorrect and mechanistic theology of ordination.

They bear signs of being written in great haste and without a proper plan, such as run-on sentences and an unsystematic succession of thought.

They have been known to catch several voles in succession and cache some for later consumption.

They comprise a series of individual frames, but when these images are shown rapidly in succession, the illusion of motion is given to the viewer.

They are related mostly to the succession of the former Yugoslavia, including demarcation of their common border.

They also tended to toward stereotyping: typically, a small group of ethnically diverse men would come together but would not be developed much beyond their ethnicity ; the senior officer would often be unreasonable and unyielding ; almost anyone sharing personal information-especially plans for returning home-would die shortly thereafter and anyone acting in a cowardly or unpatriotic manner would convert to heroism or die ( or both, in quick succession ).

They are required to have at least one straight section and one labyrinth ( three turns in quick succession without a straight section ).

They hoped that by allowing Lin to ease into a constitutionally sanctioned role, whether Chairman or Vice-Chairman, Lin's succession would be institutionalized.

They based their claim on the Salic law, which excluded females ( Joan II of Navarre ) as well as male descendants through the distaff line ( Edward III of England ), from the succession to the French throne.

They were relegated twice in succession and slid into Serie C1.

" ( 1 Tim 3: 15 ) They point to their apostolic succession ( among other things ) as evidence that they are maintaining authentic orthodox Christian teachings.

They could be expected to contest the succession, and did so.

They reeled off a succession of top 20 U. S. hits, including " A Girl Like You " ( 1967 ), " How Can I Be Sure?

They concluded that the layers had been laid down over an extended period during which there clearly had been faunal succession and that the area had been submerged under sea water at times and at other times under fresh water.

They are listed in the order of succession to the Crown.

They are often classified as sedevacantists because they reject the official papal succession for the same reasons.

They are best known for the habit of some species mimicking the songs of other birds and the sounds of insects and amphibians, often loudly and in rapid succession.

They did not there state any reason why such a function should have values in a scale consisting of a continuous succession of numbers or that it should have anything to do with heat.

They are often the first plants to take hold in a mudflat and begin its ecological succession into a salt marsh.

They had a succession of hits worldwide, including eight Top Ten hits in the United States, in the early 1980s.

They determined they would launch a rebellion demanding a parliament to settle the succession.

They had a series of children in rapid succession, with six surviving infancy.