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 are in themselves neutral, and, so far as they get a moral quality, they get it only through being invested with it by the attitude of the onlooker.

They are followed by a further wicked king, or " little horn ", who subdues three of the ten ( 7: 24 ), speaks against the Most High, wages war against the saints, and attempts to change the set times and laws ( 7: 25 ); after ' a time and times and half a time ', this king is judged and stripped of his kingdom by an " Ancient of Days " and his heavenly court ( 7: 26 ); next, " one like a son of man " approaches the Ancient of Days and is invested with worldwide dominion ; moreover, his everlasting reign over all kings and kingdoms is shared with " the people of the Most High " ( 7: 27 )

They were invested with feudal authority by Sultan Nur ad-Din Zangi and furnished respectable contingents to the Muslim ranks in their struggle against the Crusaders.

They initially invested $ 1, 500 each and formed a board of directors: The investors became known as The Big Four and their railroad was called the Central Pacific Railroad.

They also invested heavily in advanced automatic vectorizing compilers in order to gain performance when existing programs were ported to their systems.

They invested $ 100, 000 of the proceeds in 5 % government stock.

They invested the city, and forced it to surrender.

They invested another $ 100, 000 fixing the place up and creating the facilities they wanted.

They matured after seven years and paid $ 5 for every $ 4 invested but individuals could not own more than $ 600 each in certificates.

They also invested in their children's educations.

They are limited in liability to the amount they have invested in the corporation.

They couldn't understand that a dictator like Saddam Hussein had invested a large share of oil revenues in infrastructure projects, such as highways, modern irrigation canals and industrial plants, which one doesn't find in just any country.

They were formally invested by Henry III in November 1232.

They invested their wealth back into the area with parks, churches, schools and Edgeley Park.

They instead invested more time in their compiler's register allocation, making sure it wisely used the larger set available in the MIPS instruction set.

They then gained access to the Panarch's Palace and held the newly invested Amathera captive.

They also maintain a summer home in Montana, where the family has invested in restaurants and a craft brewery in the community of Lakeside.

They expected Moores to concur, but instead he said: " I'll pay each of you the £ 200 you've invested, if you'll sell me your shares ".

They carried coal, wood and grain, and also iron ore, Stinnes having, at the age of 23, heavily invested in the steel industry.

They invested in the construction of the Holmenkollen Line and sanatoriums in the Holmenkollen area.

They invested in the construction of the Holmenkollen Line and sanatoriums in the Holmenkollen area.

They built the first studio in Flushing, New York but, as Solax prospered they invested more than $ 100, 000 in a modern production plant in 1912 in Fort Lee, New Jersey, a place that was quickly becoming the birthplace of America's first motion picture industry when Solax and many other early film studios were based there at the beginning of the 20th century.

( They ( person 1 ) bought them ( person 2 ) a beautiful gift ; all their ( person 1 ) ingenuity have they ( person 1 ) invested into its ( the gift's ) choosing.

They each invested $ 25 to establish the Times Publishing Company, which was initially located in a cellar at the corner of 9th Street and State Street.