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 decided that they thought Rembrandt's self-portrait made him look `` sad '' ; ;

They faced a rather small audience, as quite a few subscribers apparently had decided to forego the pleasures of the afternoon.

They decided to try to marry Abd al-Rahman into their family.

They decided not to take up his proposal.

“ They may produce global epidemics and impair the health of future generations .” He then stated that, in recognition of these dangers, the United States had decided to destroy its entire stockpile of biological agents and confine its future biological research program to defensive measures, such as vaccines and field detectors.

They decided that a special commission was needed to implement the " most energetically revolutionary " measures.

They decided to transfer the Cuban U-2 reconnaissance missions to the Air Force ; if another U-2 was shot down, they thought a cover story involving Air Force flights would be easier to explain than CIA flights.

They decided to make him a totally different character ; instead of the wacky, comic relief character he had been, they turned Daffy into a vain, egomaniacal prima donna wanting to steal the spotlight from Bugs Bunny.

They lie to the family about Angel's parentage, claiming that Homer decided to adopt him.

( They had originally thought that there were two boys and one girl, but decided to keep the name Chandler, despite the baby turning out a girl.

They decided to replace Auchinleck, appointing XIII Corps commander William Gott to the Eighth Army command and General Sir Harold Alexander as C-in-C Middle East Command.

They decided that the film could not be written and instead filmed a 20 minute demo of what they wanted to do.

They decided to change the rules for javelin construction because of the increasingly frequent flat landings and the resulting discussions and protests when these attempts were declared valid or invalid by competition judges.

They decided to write a skit based on that idea.

They landed and decided to name the island " Prins Maurits van Nassaueiland ", after Prince Maurits ( Latin version: Mauritius ) of the House of Nassau, the stadtholder of Holland, but also after the main vessel of the fleet which was called " Mauritius ".

They, comparing the oracular response with this occurrence, decided that this was the person whom the god told them the wagon would bring.

They decided to try one more time and once again invited the Mulla to speak the following week.

They enjoyed each other's company and decided to meet on a regular basis.

They both saw human freedom in terms of the Libertarian philosophy: man's choice is not decided by God's choice, thus God's choice is " conditional ", depending on what man chooses.

They decided to build a city, but after an argument, Romulus killed his brother.

They began publishing books and magazines but decided to go their separate ways in 1971, after which Hell created and published Dot Books.

They decided that the ritual had been done incorrectly the first time.

They decided to call him Georgius ( Latin ) or Geōrgios ( Greek ), meaning " worker of the land ".

They decided to determine what type of material would be required to build a space elevator, assuming it would be a straight cable with no variations in its cross section, and found that the strength required would be twice that of any then-existing material including graphite, quartz, and diamond.