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 poems in a strange language, of which he could barely touch a meaning -- enough to make his being ache with the desire for the fullness he sensed there.

They are held in control by force, but barely.

They have no apparent adult supervision at home, are dim-witted, under-educated, and barely literate, and they both lack any empathy or moral scruples, even regarding each other.

They obtained a barely adequate supply ( about 2. 5 million pounds ) by the end of 1776, mostly from France.

They played their first date, supporting Andy Paley ’ s band The Sidewinders, in September 1970, barely a month after Richman's return.

They play at imitating Pozzo and Lucky, but Estragon can barely remember having met them and simply does what Vladimir asks.

They try to learn about each other's past and their quirks and habits but quickly find they can barely tolerate each other.

They barely manage to get away from Javert, who allowed Valjean to leave the house, believing that Valjean would take him to meet other criminals.

They find Pierson, still barely alive, who with his last bit of strength draws a primitive diagram in the sand with his finger.

They wrote, " marking one of the biggest and quickest improvements in alternative music, the major label debut hurled them to the forefront of the punk scene barely 12 months after its predecessor.

They barely made the playoffs ; they received the number-four seed.

They walked off the stage in barely concealed annoyance and the audience was left in confusion for a moment, but the song was then restarted without any further problems.

They made their way to the Führerbunker, where Hitler promoted von Greim to the rank of Generalfeldmarschall and to Hermann Göring's former command of the barely functioning Luftwaffe.

They barely make it through the ceremony before Irma delivers their baby.

They have an especially powerful build and, after the most attractive soft parts of a carcass have been consumed, they will continue with the hide, and even the bones, gorging themselves until they can barely fly.

They start having erotic phone sex to vent some of their frustration, but keep getting interrupted, first when Oz gets a wrong number call from a guy who barely understands English, and then when Stifler intervenes by amusing Heather, at which point they both decide to hang up.

They captured Chippenham ( barely missing Alfred ) and forced Alfred to retreat " with a small force " into the wilderness.

They slip under the water with barely a ripple, simply lowering their heads and thrusting with their powerful webbed feet.

They barely survived the season, finishing with a record of 16-29-3.

They finished 15th in the league, barely avoiding relegation with a 4 – 2 victory against Budućnost in the last fixture.

They said that their council had been reduced from 600 men to three and that of 60, 000 fighting men there were barely 500 left.

They barely escape with their lives by exploitation of Ian's knowledge of how to produce fire, which induces fear and respect in the primitive Stone Age society.

They present hypoplasia in the fingers ; therefore, they cannot grab things properly, or they can barely touch them.

They barely escape after the resident fires at their car.

They do so in such a way that nature fuses with their state of spirit and it is melancholic, tetric, mysterious, dark ... as opposed to the neoclassicals, who barely showed interest in the landscape.