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 deliberately avoided social, economic, and cultural topics because they might undermine the national political development which their writing celebrated.

" They were a close family and highly supportive, especially in health matters, as they avoided doctors due to their religion.

They avoided the strong points of the KMT army, and were prepared to abandon territory in order to preserve their forces.

They argued that, by imposing a tax on employers that could be avoided only by contributing to a state unemployment-compensation fund, the federal government was essentially forcing each state to establish an unemployment-compensation fund that would meet its criteria, and that the federal government had no power to enact such a program.

They avoided persecution by posing as Christians, a credible ruse because Hundertwasser's father had been a Catholic.

They may have avoided predation by squirting ink, much like modern cephalopods ; ink is occasionally preserved in fossil specimens.

They then avoided defeat for another week thanks to an 80th minute goal from Morgan Schneiderlin against Burnley which secured them a 1 – 1 draw against the side at Turf Moor.

They were both turned to stone ; although Olenus could have avoided this fate, he chose to be with his wife.

They were subsequently excommunicated, and the popes avoided Viterbo for 86 years.

They generally avoided society and other Americans except for friends in the art world.

* They denied having avoided me.

They propose that the placebo, which may be unethical, could be avoided entirely if doctors comfort and encourage their patients ' health.

They also linked Cambridge and Ely, but generally their road system avoided the Fens except for minor roads designed for exporting the products of the region, especially salt, beef and leather.

They should also be avoided in patients with a history of cocaine use or in cocaine-induced tachycardia or myocardial infarction.

They seem to have avoided open plains, preferring forested or forest-edged terrains.

They avoided using it in public situations outside the safety of their home areas and many experienced discrimination even within the Gullah community.

They also avoid certain prey types ; in particular stinging insects such as bees and wasps are generally avoided.

They narrowly avoided prison several times, and in early 1952 they were called up for national service with the Royal Fusiliers.

They will take items avoided by many other birds, such as hairy caterpillars, insects with warning colouration and snakes.

They avoided the Reform synagogues of the older German Jews and instead formed Orthodox and Conservative synagogues.

They are an expression of the common quantum phenomenon known as level repulsion, also known as the avoided crossing principle.

They were originally found in the historic region of Araucanía, from which the Spanish called them Araucanos, but this name is now disused and avoided by Mapuche and non-Mapuche scholars alike.

They avoided using the word " communist " in the title to stay clear of the connotation of a party controlled by a foreign power.

They avoided relegation to League One despite being beaten 4 – 1 at Charlton on the final day of the season.

They finished their first league season in 11th place, but avoided the dubious honour of the wooden spoon, which went to Midlands rivals Stoke.