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 bought rustled cattle from the outlaw, kept him supplied with guns and ammunition, harbored his men in their houses.

They went shopping in the neighborhood, and bought two loaves of bread with the ration coupons they had been given in Blois, and some cheese, and a dozen eggs, and a bag of oranges from a peddler in the Place Redoute -- the first oranges they had seen since they landed.

They are able to sit more patiently with what they have bought.

They defeated Guy, but were bought off and left in autumn.

They alighted out of the coach and went into a poor woman's house at the bottom of Highgate hill, and bought a fowl, and made the woman exenterate it ".

They acquired large tracts of land, both in Europe and the Middle East ; they bought and managed farms and vineyards ; they built churches and castles ; they were involved in manufacturing, import and export ; they had their own fleet of ships ; and at one point they even owned the entire island of Cyprus.

They are exclusively custom-built or must be bought second hand in a very limited market.

They bought the rights to the name and plan to produce a series of 5, 000 cars.

They were claimed to be responsible, according to stories, for bringing financial ruin, illness, bad luck and death to anyone who bought them.

They purchased his script, bought several others, and hired him on staff.

They bought a ranch previously owned by director Raoul Walsh in Encino, California.

They could often be bought in the midwest for about 1 / 3 to 1 / 10 what they would fetch at the end of the trail.

In 1926, Glasgow Corporation bought the Cardonald estates, They gave opportunity to private development replicating Kelvindale cottage flats By Western Heritable and Council housing in the area.

They were to adopt the values of the dominant society and see land as real estate to be bought and developed ; they were to learn how to use their land effectively in order to become prosperous farmers.

They later bought the rest of the family out of slavery.

They bought deeds to land parcels from Beasley and began moving into the area in 1804.

They bought the idea from the journalist for $ 10, 000.

They bought from, and sold to, the Indians on a banking and credit system, enabling them to also recover stolen horses and human captives.

They may also be bought fresh from specialty stores.

They also occasionally bought art prints to copy.

Sales began in March of 1947, and within the first three hours, 1, 400 homes had been bought. They featured large numbers of similar houses that were built easily and quickly, allowing rapid recovery of costs.

They bought and installed the huge Cornish engines in the Contention and Grand Central mines.

They bought the property from Salvador Vallejo.

They also bought Palmdale Airport in 1952 and established an aerospace development and testing facility called United States Air Force Plant 42.