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 learned how to extract metals from ores, and how to compose many types of inorganic acids and bases.

They were allowed to have family members bring in their own food and were on good terms with the guards from whom they learned the latest news.

They later learned that an NKVD agent was hiding in the bushes outside their window and wrote down every word they said to each other.

They argue that genes determine the architecture of a learning system, but that specific " facts " about how grammar works can only be learned as a result of experience.

They also learned that the Apocalypse ’ s Horsemen had been kidnapping these mutants from around the globe.

They had no professional lawyers, but many of their farmer-warriors, like Njal, the truth-teller, were learned in folk custom and in its intricate judicial procedure.

They also learned from Goldstine that, back in the UK, Douglas Hartree and Maurice Wilkes were actually building another such machine, the pioneering EDSAC computer, at the University of Cambridge.

They also owned a substantial ranch in northern Arkansas, where Davis learned to ride horses as a boy.

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

They have learned how to play their instruments.

They thus claimed that human " excellence " was not an accident of fate or a prerogative of noble birth, but an art or " techne " that could be taught and learned.

They are learned how to roll-back-to-float ( hold their breath underwater, to roll onto their back, to float unassisted, rest and breathe until help arrives ).

They cultivate oysters, having learned the technique from the Romans.

He found the simulated people acted just as sociologists ' theory predicted. They were more likely to commit suicide in clusters, either because they had learned this trait from their friends, or because suicidal people are more likely to be like one another.

" They learned from them the means to sow discord between man and wife.

They were long-serving classicists, presiding over a learned business that printed 5 or 10 titles each year, such as Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon ( 1843 ), and they displayed little or no desire to expand its trade.

They received haircuts, new clothes, took on Anglo names, and learned English.

They also have learned to feed on steelhead and salmon below fish ladders at Bonneville Dam and at other locations in the Columbia River.

They add, that several learned men, French and English, who had been at Lisbon to verify the fact, had made enquiries at the Carmelite monastery, where Gusmao had a brother, who had preserved some of his manuscripts on the manner of constructing aerostatic machines.

They learned immediately after of their brothers ' beatings by the Earps within the previous two hours.

They learned that anti-aircraft artillery positions remained intact within the safety zone, and that numerous plain-clothed soldiers were found concealing their weapons.

They also learned to sing and play one musical instrument and were trained as athletes for military service.

They started with singing lessons, and they learned their notes using gold colored buttons on their jackets.

They perform shows at the end of each semester which showcase everything they have learned.