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 had traveled only a short distance when they spotted five Mexicans riding along a horse-trail across the stream just ahead of them.

They adopted a program by which Louisiana was divided into five districts.

They have five daughters -- Coral Lee, 5, Glenda Rae, 4, Pamela, 3, Karen, 2, and Shari, five months.

They developed " hands " and " feet " with five digits.

They had five or six children together, including Edward the Elder, who succeeded his father as king, Æthelflæd, who would become Queen of Mercia in her own right, and Ælfthryth who married Baldwin II the Count of Flanders.

They divorced five years later, but remained friends and collaborated in later work.

They are social animals, living in groups of between five and forty individuals, with the smaller species typically forming larger groups.

They maintain that, to determine such families, five criteria should be taken into account, in particular: the historical background, the characteristic way of thought, the different institutions, the recognized sources of law, and the dominant ideology.

They had five children: three daughters ( Deng Lin, Deng Nan and Deng Rong ) and two sons ( Deng Pufang and Deng Zhifang ).

They won the National League pennant and an exhibition World Series, defeating the American Association champion St. Louis Browns, ten games to five.

They made it all the way to the conference finals against the powerful and eventual Stanley Cup champion Edmonton Oilers, but lost in five games.

They took on the vastly improved Chicago Blackhawks in the Conference Finals, winning in five games.

They were defeated in five games by the Nashville Predators.

They have three children: Constanze ( 1971 ), Veronica ( 1977 ), Dominic ( 1980 ) and five grandchildren: Johannes ( 1999 ), Benedikt ( 2001 ), Theresa Marie ( 2005 ), Ferdinand ( 2009 ) and another grandson ( 2011 ).

They had five sons and four daughters, including Emperor Ankō and Emperor Yūryaku.

They bear the symbols circle, square, wavy lines, cross, and star ; there are five cards of each in a pack of 25.

They emphasize that not every film noir embodies all five attributes in equal measure — one might be more dreamlike ; another, particularly brutal.

They would have five children.

They must be confirmed by the United States Senate and serve a term of office of five years, with a maximum of ten years, if reappointed, unless they resign or are fired by the President before their term ends.

They went on a streak of five straight come-from-behind wins.

They practice the five Mahavratas, three Guptis and five Samitis:

They all received the same diet but, in addition, group one was given a quart of cider daily, group two twenty-five drops of elixir of vitriol ( sulfuric acid ), group three six spoonfuls of vinegar, group four half a pint of seawater, group five received two oranges and one lemon, and the last group a spicy paste plus a drink of barley water.

They had five children: