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 too loved their families, longed for their villages: yet lacked the faith that drove one to dare the fearful chance of escape ''.

They were inadequately financed, without experienced leadership, and lacked the general support of organized labor as a whole.

They lacked time to prepare the Congo, as the British and French had prepared their colonies.

They observed that the TRS-80 was a great computer but it lacked in several areas.

They lacked self-awareness, and the moral value system had completely collapsed.

They lacked, for example, the ubiquitous Islamic dome which did not appear in Indonesia until the 19th century, but had tall timber, multi-level roofs not too dissimilar to the pagodas of Balinese Hindu temples still common today.

They reasoned that he lacked a formal appointment from Shoghi Effendi, and that the office was confined to male descendants of Bahá ' u ' lláh, the Aghsan.

They lacked the authority to rule and chaos continued until in March 1841 when congress chose Carlos Antonio López as first consul.

They lacked Wilson's charisma and dynamism.

They also lacked a support network within the camps and were ostracized in the prison community.

They utilised the newest developments in weaponry and transportation as well, which many of their enemies lacked.

They moved into a brick row house built for the purpose near the mill, which came to be called the " red house " because it lacked the sooty patina of the other houses.

They often lacked satisfactory educational resources on their reservations, undermining their pursuit of marketable skills.

They thought that this meant that the languages were unorganized and lacked strict rules for pronunciation, and they took it as evidence that the languages were more primitive than their own.

They admired Irving for the pro-Nazi slant in his work and the fact that he possessed a degree of mainstream credibility that they lacked, but were annoyed that he did not openly deny the Holocaust.

They were blamed for the destruction of the planet Alderaan, though they lacked the resources to build something as large as the Death Star.

They lacked, however, the divine attributes of omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence of God, and they simultaneously lacked the physical passions experienced by humans and animals.

They also lacked mental attributes and sensory organs found in beings higher on the Chain.

They were " an intellectual race, with great firmness and fixedness of will " but " horribly immoral " as they lacked theism.

They predicted the ratio would vary from 1: 1 due to recessive mutations on the X chromosome, which would be expressed only in males ( who lacked the functional allele on a second X chromosome ).

They also have the secondary palate that other primitive therapsids lacked, except the therocephalians, who were the closest relatives of cynodonts.

They appeared very similar to modern forms, but were about half the size, and lacked the proboscis.

They said he lacked the appearance of a soldier, being short, near-sighted, ugly and awkward.