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 found that directors received fewer votes from shareholders when their companies performed poorly, had excess CEO compensation, or had poor shareholder protection.

They also found that directors received fewer votes when they did not regularly attend board meetings or received negative recommendations from RiskMetrics ( a proxy advisory firm ).

They have fewer teeth and shorter skulls, with much more specialized carnassials meant for shearing meat.

They have fewer moving parts than spring-loaded mechanisms, are less prone to malfunctioning due to contamination or component fatigue, easier to employ one-handed.

They eat a greater variety of plants during the dry season, as fewer plants are available.

They have fewer premolar teeth than other lemurs, with the dental formula of:

They improved traffic flow, breakdowns, there are fewer places to safely park your vehicle, leading to more congestion.

They generally consist of fewer than 60 people and rarely exceed 100.

They got married older, had fewer children, and the children they did have were born later.

They are found most commonly in small groups of fewer than ten individuals, referred to as pods.

They sometimes seek prey in the mid-water, away from the bottom, and show fewer extreme adaptations than other families.

They have the advantage of normally using fewer struts than biplanes, but the induced drag of having multiple wings is still present, though interactions between the wings may reduce this over a conventional biplane.

They also argue that fewer people in prison for these crimes would boost the workforce, as well as reduce the reliance on correctional facilities and allow police the opportunity to focus on the remaining crimes.

They played in significantly smaller venues compared to their heyday ( sometimes fewer than 500 people, as in Belo Horizonte, Brazil ).

They have three ( or fewer ) sails: the mainsail, jib, and spinnaker.

They also worked in small teams, such as the SAS, which was composed of ten or fewer commandos because that was better for special operations.

They are simpler on average than constituency-based parse trees because they contain many fewer nodes.

They were most often similar to the nations ' infantry divisions in structure, although they usually had fewer and lighter support elements, with cavalry brigades or regiments replacing the infantry units, and supporting units such as artillery and supply being horse-drawn.

They are more-or-less mutually intelligible with the Ripuarian dialects, but show fewer ' High German shifts ' ( R. Hahn 2001 ).

They released only one 7-inch EP entitled Violent Affair and played fewer than 10 shows but the musical style and lyrical content displayed on their one record would have great influence on all Unseen music to follow, helping to shape their future sound with Civitarese as lead singer.

They did not provide academic knowledge or spiritual guidance ; thus they were read quickly and far fewer times than other books.

They were replaced in commercial traffic by gaffsail schooners ( which needed fewer personnel ) and steam boats ( which did not have the windward performance problems of square rigged ships ).

They were limited in number ( according to Google, there were more than 500 Researchers ; in practice, there were fewer active Researchers ).

They also have considerably fewer features than the " adult " Furby, with a very limited vocabulary and a lower level of interactivity.