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 were famously lambasted by Democratic senator Fritz Hollings as " Buffcoat and Beaver.

They state he sent troops on illogical military exercises, turned the palace into a brothel, and most famously, planned or promised to make his horse, Incitatus, a consul,

They were the major beret suppliers to the armed forces during World War II, including famously Field Marshal Montgomery.

They famously change colour with the seasons.

They have done so in every decade since the 1970 breakup, most famously for 1981's " The Concert in Central Park ", which attracted more than 500, 000 people, making it the 7th-most attended concert in the history of music.

They were famously banned permanently from Saturday Night Live after performing drunk before a national television audience on January 18, 1986.

They were hired out by many as mercenaries to perform capture, infiltration and retrieval, and, most famously, assassinations.

They were angry at Stilicho for this, and one of the most outspoken of them, Lampadius, famously said “ Non est ista pax, sed pactio servitutis ( This is not a treaty of peace, but of servitude ).”

They have been described as a cross between a cat, a dog and a monkey ( or, more famously, as " a monkey in a cat suit ").

They were famously featured singing background on Pickett's 1966 hit, " 634-5789 ( Soulsville, U. S. A .)".

They later formed The TKO Horns, in which Maurice was replaced by original Dexy Geoff Blythe, and most famously recorded an album with Elvis Costello in 1983 and Howard Jones in 1985.

The term was famously associated with swing era dancers by band leader Cab Calloway because, as he put it, " They look like a bunch of jitterbugs out there on the floor " due to their fast, often bouncy movements.

They were somewhat aware of the situation with regards to the rumours, but did not take them entirely seriously — possibly because the UK's New Musical Express famously published an article on the Beatles-as-Klaatu theory under the title " Deaf Idiot Journalist Starts Beatle Rumour ".

They were used in both military and trade applications, most famously in the Spanish treasure fleet, and the Manila Galleons.

They play in black shirts with a white diagonal sash that contains a Cross pattée ( famously, though mistakenly, identified as a Maltese cross ), black shorts and black socks.

They were found, and in lesser numbers are still found, throughout South-East Asia and India, but primarily in China, perhaps most famously in Hong Kong.

They ( famously ) had five daughters, Marjorie, Natalie, Edna, Marilyn and Janet, who provided comic fodder for Cantor's longtime running gag, especially on radio, about his five unmarriageable daughters.

They lost to Czechoslovakia in the final of Euro 1976 in a penalty shootout by a score of 5 – 3 after the match finished 2 – 2, with Uli Hoeneß famously kicking the ball sky high.

They were most famously used by Eno during the recording of David Bowie's Berlin triptych of albums ( Low, " Heroes ", Lodger ).

Upon his departure, Parcells famously stated: " They want you to cook the dinner ; at least they ought to let you shop for some of the groceries.

They, along with five collars belonging to Knights, were famously stolen in 1907 ; they have not since been recovered.

They were soon reinforced and relieved by soldiers from Lord Lovat's 1 Special Service Brigade, famously led by piper Bill Millin.

They were, in fact, famously devoted to each other, writing almost every day when separated due to Harold's long diplomatic postings abroad, or Vita's insatiable wanderlust.

They are most famously used by the South American gauchos, but have been found in excavations of Pre-Columbian settlements, especially in Patagonia, where indigenous peoples used them to catch 200 pound guanaco ( llama-like mammals ) and ñandú ( birds ).

They used many of the same tools for imprinting designs in human flesh as they did to create their woodblock prints, including chisels, gouges and, most importantly, unique ink known as Nara ink, or Nara black, the ink that famously turns blue-green under the skin.