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 killed one and the other woman escaped, leading to the men's arrests.

They were initially park animals that later escaped and reestablished themselves in the wild.

They may also be in the form of a warning, such as stories of escaped convicts et cetera which urge the reader to pass the message on.

They escaped over the border to Mexico, and settled in the remote Sierra Madre mountains.

They killed 66 black men in the battle, executed 16, and 17 escaped and / or were killed along the way to freedom.

They escaped by crossing the Helcaraxë, or Grinding Ice, in the north to Beleriand.

They were mostly enslaved blacks who escaped in the South, although there were many northern black Unionists as well.

They killed the remaining Amalekites who had escaped, and they have lived there to this day.

They killed him and Actis escaped to Egypt.

They killed him and Candalus escaped to Cos.

They escaped the sanguinary flood by climbing onto an object and subsequently became the progenitors of a new race of frost giants.

They broke the statue, incurring the wrath of fellow villagers, and escaped to Hong Kong.

[...] They escaped when the world was destroyed by the deluge.

They were notoriously known for kidnapping free blacks, and escaped slaves and selling them back to slave traders in Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia.

They destroyed the mission village and only four of the fifteen residents escaped.

They seem to have maintained a near monopoly on the knowledge of iron production for several hundred years, but when their empire collapsed during the Eastern Mediterranean upheavals around 1200 BC, the knowledge seems to have escaped in all directions.

They have been introduced to Grand Cayman, Puerto Rico, Texas, Florida, Hawaii, and the United States Virgin Islands .< ref name =" wildblue "> Though the species is not native to Martinique, a small wild colony of released or escaped Green Iguanas endures at historic Fort Saint Louis.

They went into the forests where refugees had escaped and killed them mercilessly.

They traveled to Copenhagen, Denmark then London, England and finally to Paris, France to where Maria's family had also escaped, along with numerous upper-class Russian refugees.

They were fugitive slaves who had escaped from Kentucky to Canada via helpers through the Underground Railroad.

They are descended from goats which were a gift from Canada to Custer State Park in 1924 but later escaped.

They were confined to Otokoyama, but escaped to Kawachi Province during an attack by Yoshiakira, and a few months later returned to Yoshino.

They soon met up with other survivors who had escaped with part of the horse herd, some returning from the Smoky Hill camp where they had fled during the attack.

' They are nouns derived from the French verb " tracer ", which normally means " trace ", or " trail ", as in " he escaped without a trace ".