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 deployed their main force in Thrace, forming three armies.

They may be developed, acquired, stockpiled or deployed by nation states or by non-national groups.

They usually deployed on the mountainous route between the two largest Croatian cities, Zagreb and Split.

They remain dangerous after the conflict in which they were deployed has ended, killing and injuring civilians and rendering land impassable and unusable for decades.

They were reportedly deployed as part of the defense of Kronstadt and Sevastopol.

They serve the state exclusively, especially when the National Guard is deployed or otherwise unavailable.

They would have deployed heavy Marsokhod rovers onto the surface, and conducted sample return missions.

They are commonly deployed in Australia, Europe, Asia and the Americas.

They were also deployed in Chechnya as an active bridgehead for other forces to follow.

They are predominantly deployed for military applications, but also used in a small but growing number of civil applications, such as firefighting and nonmilitary security work, such as surveillance of pipelines.

They are one of the most widely deployed white pages schema.

They deployed over 25, 000 staff in military units and bases from Siberia to Egypt to France.

They were deployed about across the Black Sea from Balaklava in the Crimea, where the main British camp was based.

They attempted to " borrow " the mercenary Scotch Brigade of the Dutch States Army for use in the Americas, in a similar manner to the Hessian and Brunswicker contingents they hired and deployed.

They explored the lunar surface, deployed several lunar surface experiments, and installed the first nuclear power generator station on the Moon to provide the power source.

They were also attached with B / 1-126 which deployed to Iraq in 2004 and to an Embedded Training Team which deployed to Afghanistan in 2005, as part of the war on terrorism.

They were also deployed to pump water in floods and droughts.

They were not ultimately needed for that mission and were never deployed.

They can also be deployed at other times, such as before landing.

They have been utilised as palace guards by the King of Nepal, with one battalion always permanently deployed.

They are usually deployed for a cause where the government has been viewed as failed or non-existent.

They were deployed during the political and economical changes in Russia in the 1990s ; In August 1991 communists and allied military commanders tried to overthrow Mikhail Gorbachev and regain control over the unstable Soviet Union.

They have been deployed twice to Iraq.

They complained that the Air Force should have come clean and simply pushed back the deployment date, but instead, in order to foster the illusion of progress, the missiles were deployed in a non-operational state.