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 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 fought hard, but they were forgiving to former foes, and sought to prevent vindictive legislatures from confiscating Tory property in violation of the Treaty of 1783.

They did not `` duck the war '' but they fought in it, however reluctantly ; ;

They seem to feel that because they fought on the right side during the Civil War, and won, they have earned the right merely to deplore what is going on in the South, without taking any responsibility for it ; ;

They fought against UNITA rebels, based in Angola, and the apartheid-era government in South Africa who supported them.

They also fought alongside Hannibal, killing ( in 216 BC ) the Roman general L. Postumius Albinus, whose skull was then turned into a sacrificial bowl.

They lost every battle they fought with the French.

" ( See: Maenchen-Helfen The World of the Huns p 12 ) They also fought using iron swords and lassos in close combat.

They were successful military leaders who had fought against the barbarian Germanic tribes.

They fought against the main obstacle on the fulfillment of such superior passional living, identified by them in advanced capitalism.

(" They fought constantly.

They are held in high esteem by the Beijing government because they fought on the side of the CPC against Chinese Nationalist rule during the Chinese Civil War.

They fought packed in a close rectangular formation, typically eight men deep, with a leader at the head of each column and a secondary leader in the middle, so that the back rows could move off to the sides if more frontage was needed.

They gave up teaching swordsmanship in 1614 when they fought in the Army of the West against Tokugawa Ieyasu in the Battle of Osaka, which they lost.

They fought on battlefields and in universities trying to undermine as many discoveries as they could, but to no avail-technology made the march of Science unstoppable.

They " lived in native communities for years, learned native languages fluently, attended native councils, and often fought alongside their native companions.

They were comprehensively defeated by Ramses III, who fought them in " Djahi " ( the eastern Mediterranean coast ) and at " the mouths of the rivers " ( the Nile delta ), recording his victories in a series of inscriptions in his mortuary temple at Medinet Habu.

They then fought in the late 1960s War of Attrition ( against Israel ), and the 1970 Black September invasion of Jordan.

They were supervised by Ford's overseer Chapin, who saved Northup from a lynching after he fought with Tibeats.

They also maintained the traditional ( i. e. nominal ) claims to the Kingdom of France, but none of them tried to make substance of it, though Henry VIII fought wars with France to try to reclaim that title.

They witnessed the intellectual and theological battle the proponents of the new philosophy ( René Descartes lived for a few years in Utrecht ) fought with the proponents of the strict Reformed theologian Voetius.

They elected new leaders, including Xenophon himself, and fought their way north through hostile Persians and Medes to Trapezus on the coast of the Black Sea.

They are frequently cited as the first instance in American history when people in the homosexual community fought back against a government-sponsored system that persecuted sexual minorities, and they have become the defining event that marked the start of the gay rights movement in the United States and around the world.

They fought against the Argive Dorians to the east and southeast, and also the Arcadian Achaeans to the northwest.

They fought a total of four wars.