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 regard a " crime malum in se " as inherently criminal ; whereas a " crime malum prohibitum " ( the argument goes ) counts as criminal only because the law has decreed it so.

They are sometimes useful for constructing the base case of an induction argument.

They use the argument operation to construct a new modified operation.

They taught that every argument could be countered with an opposing argument, that an argument's effectiveness derived from how " likely " it appeared to the audience ( its probability of seeming true ), and that any probability argument could be countered with an inverted probability argument.

They also taught and were known for their ability to make the weaker ( or worse ) argument the stronger ( or better ).

They decided to build a city, but after an argument, Romulus killed his brother.

They point to the impossibility of pleasing everyone as an argument against change to their definition of Wessex at the present time, though they do not rule out the possibility of change in the future if the popular will demands it.

They did not win the argument because they did not refute the other person's contention.

They cite in support of this argument research published in 1973 which found that treating Shigella with the anti-diarrhea drug ( Co-phenotrope, Lomotil ) caused people to stay feverish twice as long as those not so treated.

They got into a heated argument.

They get into an argument but then Mookie and Sal cautiously reconcile.

They started arguing and decided to settle their argument with a game of golf.

They make the structural argument that no political party truly represents them.

* They rebutted the argument that it was simply an oath to the constitution by pointing out that the constitution itself made the King head of state and it was therefore the same as an oath of allegiance to him directly.

They developed two logical arguments against an infinite past, the first being the " argument from the impossibility of the existence of an actual infinite ", which states:

They used two logical arguments against an infinite past, the first being the " argument from the impossibility of the existence of an actual infinite ", which states:

They use a teleological argument for the existence of God as a creator based on perceived evidence of order, purpose, design, or direction — or some combination of these — in nature.

They believed the " leave it in the ground " argument was doomed to fail, and the best way to oppose the pipeline would be to propose an ineffective alternative which could be easily defeated.

They then get into an argument about who is cuter, ( by comparing themselves with Mary and Rhoda ) and who would be clever enough to think of as a better story of inventing of Post-it notes in the reunion, and their friendship dissolves.

They relied on an argument by Kip Viscusi which became known as the " death benefits " -- the idea that, since smokers died earlier than non-smokers, the nation was being saved hospital, pension and nursing-home costs, and that these offset many of the external costs on how these are calculated.

They combined aspects of street gangs and political parties, taking positions on current issues, notably theological problems ( a cause of massive, often violent argument in the fifth and sixth centuries ) or claimants to the throne.