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 brok & run and Arch holored out to shoot the ornery suns of biches and we all let go at them.

They won't even let you in the front door.

They recommended, also, that `` at a fixed hour, let the entire family be assembled for night prayers, followed by a short reading of the Holy Scriptures ''.

They begged Grandma to let them put a bed in the kitchen for her, but Grandma said she was getting too old to sleep in strange beds and be seen with her teeth out, and that she hoped to die in privacy like a Christian and if the Lord willed it to be of pneumonia than it would have to be that way.

They would give one final testimony of their challenge to let the people see their arrogance.

They closed all the businesses in the town and let no food in for a week.

They were let out to contractors, like the other works mentioned above, and when they were completed, the censors had to see that the work was performed in accordance with the contract: this was called opus probare or in acceptum referre.

They let us have the whole island to ourselves.

They are named this because when a passenger needs to be let off they use their coin money to tap the side of the vehicle and the driver usually stops.

They provided grounds and sponsors booths without charge and let the sponsors keep the gate takings.

' They ( will ) undress in their presence in order to let them have back their field and to give it back to them.

They are thus popular for warm-weather wear, because they let the foot be cooler than a closed-toed shoe would.

They let out all of their aggression in the number (" Cool ").

In an interview Jennings recalled the restrictions of the Nashville establishment, " They wouldn't let you do anything.

They are not at all such as we describe them when we relate that they let themselves be captured by virgins, but clean contrary to our notions.

They shouted things like " let's get them out and beat them up ," and " beat them to death, don't let them escape " at the frightened passengers.

They also issue Statements of Administration Policy that let Congress know the White House ’ s official position on proposed legislation.

They are not terribly demanding of attention, though they will let their owner know if they feel like playing.

They could not show excessive care of their person, and they were not allowed to let the fire go out.

They let go the handle some times escape with their life but get an arm and head broken in the attempt to get away.

They simply let themselves get inspired by our work, which is absolutely a legitimate process.

They intended to let Bonanno off easily as well, wanting to avoid a repetition of the bloodbaths of the 1930s.

They have approached Tricia to help them adapt the astrology charts to use Rupert as their base, offering to let her interview them on their base in exchange for the help.