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 settled first in the Ancient Pueblo areas for a few hundred years, then migrated to their current location.

They appear to have evolved in Alaska from people using the Arctic small tool tradition who probably had migrated to Alaska from Siberia at least 2, 000 to 3, 000 years earlier, though they might have been in Alaska as far back as 10, 000 to 12, 000 years or more.

They had split off from Brennus ' people in 279 BC, and had migrated into Thrace under their leaders Leonnorius and Lutarius.

They were descendants of the Bani Utbah tribe who gradually migrated in the early eighteenth century from Nejd to the shores of the Persian Gulf.

They migrated to South America about 3 million years ago.

They migrated to the United States in 1949.

They were a peace-loving pro-religious people who migrated up the same path from the Orinoco.

They may have migrated to the island from the mainland around the time humans spread from Africa to the Indian subcontinent.

They were succeeded by ceramic-using agriculturalist Saladoid people who migrated up the island chain from Venezuela.

They may have migrated from the north and moved south into Muscogee Creek territory and settled at the sites of mounds built by the Mississippian culture.

They had migrated there from Eastern Woodland areas.

They may have migrated to the south for winter.

They migrated to Australia from England in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to escape the poverty in the East End of London's Huguenot enclaves of Spitalfields and Bethnal Green.

They evidently filled a void left when the previous inhabitants — the Alamanni — migrated south to the region named after them, Alemannia.

They were amongst the third batch of Muslims who migrated to Medina.

They migrated from there to Haemonia ( later called Thessaly ), where they " drove out the barbarian inhabitants " and divided the country into Phthiotis, Achaia, and Pelasgiotis, named after Achaeus, Phthius and Pelasgus, " the sons of Larissa and Poseidon.

They eventually migrated northward into New York and, in 1712, became the sixth nation to be formally admitted into the Iroquois Confederacy.

They were an Iroquoian-speaking tribe that, although historically in North Carolina, because of warfare migrated to join the rest of the Iroquois Confederacy in New York.

They suggest that Native American refugees of other tribes, such as Tuscarora, most of whom migrated to New York by 1722, gathered in the Robeson County area and merged as a people in the early nineteenth century.

They are thought to have migrated from the southeastern prairies over 9000 years ago.

They migrated to the area beginning in 1837 under the leadership of the Jesuit missionary, Father Nicholas Steinbacher.

They had migrated to Pennsylvania from Chard, Somerset, England.

They also migrated to Flanders, where they were attracted by its flourishing cities, such as Antwerp and Brussels.

Gold disputed Philp's finding, believing that the oil and gas could have just as easily migrated up to the surface: " They would have it that the oil and gas we found down there was from the five feet of sediments on the top – had seeped all the way down six kilometres down into the granite.