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 lay a little too stiffly, with their eyes straining to stay closed.

They closed in fast, kept him from reaching inside his coat for his gun.

They operate under a permanent threat of being closed down for violating various government regulations, such as misstating their corporate name on publications or operating out of an office not registered with the government ( in fact, this is the situation for all private enterprises in Belarus ).

They were used in 18th-century chemical studies for burning materials in closed glass vessels where the products of combustion could be trapped for analysis.

They also are prohibited from kicking, head-butting, or hitting with any part of the arm other than the knuckles of a closed fist ( including hitting with the elbow, shoulder or forearm, as well as with open gloves, the wrist, the inside, back or side of the hand ).

They closed all the businesses in the town and let no food in for a week.

They were also criticised for shutting down all servers except the Japanese servers for the games Resident Evil: Outbreak and its sequel Resident Evil Outbreak File 2, which the servers for Outbreak and Outbreak File 2 in Japan finally closed on June 30, 2011, over three and a half years after shutting down the North American and European servers on December 31, 2007.

They were finally closed down in 1947-48.

They may have long, separated " Split " reins or shorter closed reins, which sometimes include an attached Romal.

They had reduced the military, closed the Bank of the U. S., and narrowed the tax system.

They have now since been closed, the land on the former has now been converted into a national park, stadium and the Crafts Village visitor attraction.

They proposed that, of all closed classical orbits traced by a mechanical system in its phase space, only the ones that enclosed an area which was a multiple of Planck's constant were actually allowed.

* They are also given to neonate infants whose ductus arteriosus is not closed within 24 hours of birth

They are the smallest class of partial functions that includes the initial functions and is closed under composition, primitive recursion, and the μ operator.

They are closed under operations that one would expect for measurable sets, that is, the complement of a measurable set is a measurable set and the countable union of measurable sets is a measurable set.

They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a " buzzing " sound that starts a standing wave vibration in the air column inside the instrument.

They are often referred to as twisters or cyclones, although the word cyclone is used in meteorology, in a wider sense, to name any closed low pressure circulation.

They were met by skinheads and other protesters, and police who had closed off the square and immediately arrested activists as they entered.

" They closed by advising " the formation of a Press Tribunal to address complaints, and a Press Institute to provide continuous scientific study of the Press.

They are the two closed arms of the swastika.

They closed their NY factory in 1958 and under various mergers and acquisitions they still operate selling pencils to this day with Berol.

She wrote to John Vickers, the OFT director-general, saying, " They are not a group of businessmen meeting behind closed doors to fix the price of their products to the disadvantage of the consumer.

They are based on straightforward speed over stretches of road closed to other traffic.

They are open at one end and closed at the other.