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 went after the squall as mercilessly as a wolf pack after an abandoned cow.

They are being abandoned in favor of " antipsychotic ", which refers to the drug's desired effects.

They abandoned their homes completely with the intention of settling among the Santones ( Saintonge ).

They hold that the natural tendency of people is to be ruled and that freedom is an exceptional state of affairs which is now being abandoned in favor of social and economic security provided by the welfare state.

They embraced evolutionary concepts, asserted the " inherent goodness of man ", and abandoned the doctrine of biblical infallibility, rejecting most of the miraculous events in the Bible ( including the virgin birth ).

They are rapidly abandoned, sign of the quick demographic weakening of the Muslim in the peninsula.

They soon superseded the earlier lines, which were mostly abandoned.

They warned the garrisons at Copano and Refugio of the advancing Texians ; those garrisons abandoned their posts and joined the soldiers at Fort Lipantitlán, near San Patricio.

They effectively abandoned their claim to the island in 1718.

They were quite startled in the morning when they had found out that their efforts were not in vain – Frossard had abandoned his position on the heights.

They abandoned London on 2 October, leaving the city to fall into disorder.

They have abandoned Basic Law V in favour of abstraction principles such as Hume's principle ( the number of objects falling under the concept F equals the number of objects falling under the concept G if and only if the extension of F and the extension of G can be put into one-to-one correspondence ).

They threatened to vote against the Budget unless they had their way ( an attempt by Lloyd George to win their support by amending whisky duties was abandoned as the Cabinet felt that this was recasting the Budget too much ).

They abandoned their horses at the Snake River, made dugout canoes, and attempted to use the river for transport.

They defeated Warwick's army at the Second Battle of St Albans and recaptured the feeble-minded King Henry, who had been abandoned on the battlefield for the third time, but failed to occupy London.

They also grow in the abandoned arboretum at Mount Banda Banda in New South Wales.

They enjoyed a considerable superiority in numbers over the defenders, but the settlement had been heavily fortified by Dupleix and after two months the siege was abandoned.

They then find themselves in a desolate abandoned city of the ancient world of Charn.

They also built a fort in Tamsui ( 1628 ) but had already abandoned it by 1638.

They lived along the Mogollon Rim, especially from the 1100s through the 1300s AD, when they abandoned their large villages.

They locked the father in a nearby abandoned stable, and abused him by preparing his execution every morning for about a week and cancelling it at the last moment.

They divorced in 1929, after O ' Neill abandoned Boulton and the children for the actress Carlotta Monterey ( born San Francisco, California, December 28, 1888 ; died Westwood, New Jersey, November 18, 1970 ).

They go to an abandoned field, where she tries to kill him, but he has loaded the gun with blanks.

They found an abandoned and starving slave, formerly belonging to one of the Amalekites who had raided Ziklag, and having given him fig cake, raisin cake, and water, persuaded him to lead them to the Amalekite raiders.

They leave together and make their way to an abandoned machine gun position.