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 were, in effect his last testament to non-objective art.

" They lived in unwalled villages, without any superfluous furniture ; for as they slept on beds of leaves and fed on meat and were exclusively occupied with war and agriculture, their lives were very simple, and they had no knowledge whatever of any art or science.

They have a long history in Japanese folklore and art, and more recently have appeared in Japanese anime and manga ( see examples cited below ).

They charged the high tax placed upon raw metals instead of the no tax on art.

They fell behind advances in philosophy, law, literature and art taking place in France and Italy.

They did not want to be set aside but exhibited on the same level as art peers of every skin color.

They issued challenges to art and culture through publications such as The Blind Man, Rongwrong, and New York Dada in which they criticized the traditionalist basis for museum art.

They traveled to Italy together and upon returning, Munch began another fertile period in his art, which included landscapes and his final painting in " The Frieze of Life " series, The Dance of Life ( 1899 ).

: They don't care whether their plays are art

They are said to be gifted in magic, mentally sharp and lovers of nature, art, and song.

They love whom they lower ; they despise whom they approve ; the art they glorify, the artist they disgrace.

They can include graphic designer, art director, creative director, and the entry level production artist.

They made fake identity documents which allowed them to visit bars at the weekend but also the local art house cinema – which though it typically showed pornographic films would on occasion feature underground films such as Robert Downey, Sr .' s Putney Swope and Andy Warhol's Chelsea Girls.

They would also steal books from the local library and modify the cover art or the blurbs before returning them to the library.

" They moved to America after his work was exhibited in the ' degenerate art ' ( Entartete Kunst ) in 1936, but before the 1937 exhibition in Munich.

They contain some of the best-known Upper Paleolithic art.

They have become a typical aspect of Portuguese culture, manifesting without interruption during five centuries the consecutive trends in art.

They were not only used as an ornamental art form, but also had a specific functional capacity like temperature control at homes.

They have a long, complex pre-history in earlier Japanese art.

They consolidated power and exercised influence in matters of trade, art, politics, technology, and religion.

Amongst those who followed these ideas were the English poets and painters that constituted the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who, from about 1850, opposed the dominant trend of industrial Victorian England, because of their " opposition to technical skill without inspiration " They were influenced by the writings of the art critic John Ruskin ( 1819 – 1900 ), who had strong feelings about the role of art in helping to improve the lives of the urban working classes, in the rapidly expanding industrial cities of Britain.

They thus claimed that human " excellence " was not an accident of fate or a prerogative of noble birth, but an art or " techne " that could be taught and learned.