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 moved slowly, toward the main gate, following the wall.

They moved in on him, crowded him from all sides.

They turned at the bottom of Kate's steps and moved off in the direction of the park.

They moved toward the skiffs with shocking eagerness, elbowing and shoving.

They moved in a series of rhythmic fits and starts, a macabre dance -- two steps back, two steps forward, two steps back.

They were originally buried where they died, but were later moved on the orders of the US military government to the cemeteries of their previous homes.

They moved to the farm on June 1 and optimistically named it " Fruitlands " despite only ten old apple trees on the property.

They then moved into the region that later bore the name of Achaea.

They yelled and moved more quickly towards the house.

They shared a flat with Jackson's brother Adalbert until 1885 when Housman moved to lodgings of his own.

They gained control of the Dressau City Council and moved to close the school.

They met Philippe Kahn, who had just moved to Silicon Valley, and who had been a key developer of the Micral.

They then moved to Vernon, then to a house in Giverny in Normandy, where he planted a large garden and where he painted for much of the rest of his life.

They no longer maintain a rivalry, as Carolina was moved to the NFC South in 2002, and the two have played rarely since then.

They have moved into most of the areas of North America formerly occupied by wolves, and are often observed foraging in suburban garbage bins.

They secured a record contract with Capitol Records, but Hooper left the band before the remaining trio moved to Los Angeles to record their debut album.

They lived in Portland in his early years, and moved to the countryside to Johnson Creek when he was 9 or 10, after the death of his father.

They first settled in Cornwall, but moved the following year to Salisbury with their infant daughter Loraine.

They worked on the manuscript until 1764, when Young moved away from the area, taking the manuscript with him.

They retired to Aldeburgh in 1902 and moved to Alde House in 1903, after the death of Elizabeth ’ s mother.

They moved frequently from one sordid flat to another.

They moved again in 1853 to Holland Patent, New York, near Utica.

They moved to a housing project in 1960 and Gloria grew up as a tomboy.

They moved from Mauritania and settled in Futa Tooro, Futa Djallon, and subsequently throughout the rest of West Africa.

They slowly moved south, and the earliest ironworks in modern-day KwaZulu-Natal Province are believed to date from around 1050.