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 shouldn't be asked to carry any more of the burden.

They were asked to vote `` true '' if they thought they had seen him make the error, `` false '' if they thought he had not ; ;

They were asked to leave the hotel.

They are more cooperative if they can gradually build trust, instead of being asked to give extensive help immediately.

They contacted Tom Maguire, who had legitimated the Provisionals in 1969, and asked him for support.

They were never asked to return.

They asked for, and received, permission to do so from both William Lawrence Bragg and Wilkins.

They became friends and, within a year, he asked her to join him in Los Angeles for another attempt to record his first solo album.

When Leight was asked about obstacles in Daivd Haden's and Detective Benson's relationship, which will also be a sexual relationship ; " They may disagree on a case.

They asked Zeus to judge which of them was fairest, and eventually he, reluctant to favour any claim himself, declared that Paris, a Trojan mortal, would judge their cases, for he had recently shown his exemplary fairness in a contest in which Ares in bull form had bested Paris's own prize bull, and the shepherd-prince had unhesitatingly awarded the prize to the god.

They asked a thousand pounds, Moon pulled the cash from his pocket and gave it to them.

They asked Carson to carry their correspondence overland to the President.

" They asked Rock to take out the " I'm going platinum " line on the title track's chorus but he refused.

Opposition MP Akram Chehayeb said " That is where the difference between us and them lies: They asked these people to come and they brought them here, whereas the opposition's supporters come here on their own.

“ They were asked for their opinions and views about a range of recent policy issues and debates.

Then he asked me how I felt about it .” They did not marry, although Thompson anguished over her decision, which she felt would cause ‘ Abdu ’ l-Baha disappointment.

They gathered around him and asked him to give them a taste.

They refused, and Honorius asked Roger II of Sicily to punish the city in May 1130, but Honorius died before action was taken.

They also asked for, and received, a guarantee of their continued city rights and privileges for the nobility.

They realize that Claudius has asked for Hamlet to be killed.

They were introduced to composer Alexander Glazunov, a professor at the Conservatory, who asked to see Prokofiev and his music ; Glazunov was so impressed that he urged Prokofiev's mother that her son apply to the Saint Petersburg Conservatory.

They asked Bill Parsley, a friend of Hooper, to provide funding.

They asked T-Bone Burnett to pick songs for the soundtrack of the film.

He was known for his acerbic wit ( asked if his party might nominate him for President, he noted " They could do worse, and they probably will ").