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 are concerned with all things traded in, securities, bonds, cocao, coffee, soybeans, cotton, tin, oats, etc..

They export cotton ginning machinery.

They were notably influenced by songs of African-Americans, such as those sung whilst manually loading vessels with cotton in ports of the southern United States.

They also grew cotton and tobacco, and ate maize and sweet potatoes.

They began to convey the idea of inexperienced cavers, using unreliable light sources and cotton clothing.

They are known for their use of vicuña fibers instead of just cotton to produce fine textiles — innovations that did not reach the northern coast of Peru until centuries later.

They concluded that the GM cotton effectively controlled bollworm.

They agreed on a strategy to sequence the genome of cultivated, allotetraploid cotton.

They later leave the orchard for a cotton farm where Tom is at risk of being identified for the murder he committed.

They are often made from industrial cotton which may be bleached white or left the fiber ’ s natural color.

They are also found in xylem, and are the main component of many textiles such as paper, linen, and cotton.

Saturday, 13 October 1492: ... They brought us sticks of the cotton thread and parrots and other little things which it would be tedious to list, and exchanged everything for whatever we offered them.

They are usually stuffed with soft, white cotton and have smooth and soft fur.

They may be made out of cotton crochet thread, eyelash yarn, or other fiber.

They developed the county for large cotton plantations.

They used rotary shaft encoders to measure distance along disposable cotton reels.

They have white cotton gloves, but these are invariably carried and not worn.

They knew how to weave the fibers of cotton and hemp and other plants.

They developed farmlands as cotton plantations and transported thousands of enslaved African Americans into the area for labor.

They continued building mills into the 1810s, and by 1833 their business employed 2, 000 people and had dominated the cotton industry in the Derwent Valley.

They also started up a silk weaving industry, the foundation for Manchester's later cotton industry.

They found that uranium oxides stick very well to cotton cloth, but did not wash out with soap or laundry detergent.

They are usually applied to a cotton pad and wiped over the skin, but can also be spritzed onto the skin from a spray bottle.

They are usually applied with the fingertips or a cotton pad to the entire face, avoiding the lips and area around the eyes.

They emerge and enter cotton fields from early spring through midsummer, with peak emergence in late spring, and feed on immature cotton bolls.