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 effectively exploit the addressing logic of computers.

They are effectively solidified as an ultrahigh density deuterium lump ( Pycnodeuterium ) inside each octahedral space within the unit cell of the palladium host lattice.

They also had the range and speed to travel effectively with a battle fleet.

They are more streamlined than fur seals and sea lions, so can swim more effectively over long distances.

They effectively wiped away everything that had gone before, and built an administrative system from scratch.

They were destined for the General People's Committee for Public Security, effectively Libya's Ministry of the Interior.

They typically made pledges and promises of tribute to the Carolingians, but effectively remained outside Frankish control.

They produced very little sculpture in the round, except for colossal guardian figures, often the human-headed lamassu, which are sculpted in high relief on two sides of a rectangular block, with the heads effectively in the round ( and also five legs, so that both views seem complete ).

They found the tumors were killed more effectively with radiation and the healthy tissue suffered less toxicity than without the nanotechnology drug delivery.

They can be used effectively to control erosion and recycle and conserve water and nutrients by building them along contour lines on slopes.

They are also visible in all scopes, effectively serving as " global " procedures.

They concluded that the GM cotton effectively controlled bollworm.

They effectively abandoned their claim to the island in 1718.

They believed that they would be able to manipulate him to their own ends, and thus effectively control the empire.

They also abolished any legal distinction between the Welsh and the English, thereby effectively ending the Penal Code although this was not formally repealed.

They proceeded to effectively disfranchise all blacks and many poor whites by new constitutions and laws related to voter registration and elections.

They can all be useful at all stages of this disability and are vital in a person with cerebral palsy's ability to function and live more effectively.

They repeatedly tried to impose the ironclad oath, which would effectively have allowed no former Confederates to vote.

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 are issued at a substantial discount to par value, so that the interest is effectively rolled up to maturity ( and usually taxed as such ).

They lead an uprising of Hobbits and are victorious at the Battle of Bywater which effectively frees the Shire.

They argue that, in order to more effectively reduce crime rate, these factors should be paid more attention to or targeted instead.

They performed several live dates in the Netherlands, but internal wrangling over material intended for a CD release effectively split up the group.

They can tolerate a wide range of temperatures and thermoregulate effectively.