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 now lead Louisville by a full game on top of the American Association pack.

They were the top land predators, sometimes reaching several meters in length, preying on the large insects of the period and many types of fish in the water.

They also finished third in the Eredivisie that season, again qualifying for the UEFA Cup, after spending most of the season in the top two spots.

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

They have a soft, long fur colored grey-brown to reddish on top with a generally brighter underbelly.

They were the most consistent team in the top flight of English football over the three seasons immediately before the Second World War.

They are popular with urban and apartment dwellers, ranking among the top ten most popular breeds in 76 of 190 major US cities surveyed by the AKC.

Making prominent use of electronic instruments, the album, which reunited Bowie with Let's Dance producer Nile Rodgers, confirmed Bowie's return to popularity, hitting the number one spot on the UK charts and spawning three top 40 hits, including the top 10 song " Jump They Say ".

They are often used in pairs, the bottom fuller has a square shank which fits into the hardy hole in the anvil while the top fuller has a handle.

They are usually finished off on the top with flashing ( sheet metal cap ) for protection against the elements.

They have two blowholes on top of their head, which can create a distinctive V-shaped blow at the surface in calm wind conditions.

They are members of the Great Lakes Valley Conference, the top Division II conference in the nation.

They were the creation of millionaire Percy Nilsson and quickly rose to the highest rank in the early to mid-1990s and won two Swedish championships, but for a number of years have found themselves residing outside of the top flight.

They are accountable to the top management for their department's function.

They also believed that water was everywhere, the top, bottom and sides, and that the universe was born from this enormous sea.

They were worked as treadmills with miners standing on the top slats.

* 1984 – 36 top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.

They are independently scrollable and the background colour of the top playfield " shines through " to the underlying playfield.

# They can use the top of the stack to decide which transition to take.

In the 2002 Sight & Sound directors ' poll, Tarantino revealed his top 12 films: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ; Rio Bravo ; Taxi Driver ; His Girl Friday ; Rolling Thunder ; They All Laughed ; The Great Escape ; Carrie ; Coffy ; Dazed and Confused ; Five Fingers of Death ; and Hi Diddle Diddle.

They can be simply stakes in the ground with a ring at the top to hold the arrows, or more elaborate designs that hold the arrows within reach without the archer having to lean down to draw.

They released their debut album in 1970 reaching the top ten on the Billboard charts.

They instead recorded the song at RCA's Nashville studio with Porter trying a completely new strategy: building the mix from the top down rather than from the bottom up, beginning with the close-miked background vocals in the foreground and ending with the rhythm section soft in the background.

They are declared at the top of the method as names separated by spaces and enclosed by vertical bars.