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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 and my
They killed Big Charlie, dumped his body in my rose garden two nights ago.
They have pulled out all my teeth and now she will carve out my tongue with her hacksaw!!
They saw it before I did, even with my binoculars.
They have remained on the opened page of my mind in all the years which since have passed.
They lived in the same house and it didn't seem to be such a hard thing to do, but the sad realities of Lilly's life and the fact that Meltzer didn't love her never satisfied my wishful thinking.
They caused my love for Jessica to become warmer and at the same time more hopeless, as if my adolescent self knew that only torment would ever bring me the courage to ask to see her again.
They depend on my supposedly expert knowledge of a trade of which they themselves know little.
They could still read the opening: `` Once, I was like you, stepping out of my window at the end of day, and letting the winds blow me gently toward the place I lived in.
" They gave my name and my date of birth, but I am not a suicide bomber.
They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.
Risdon also stated that the original tomb bore an inscription: " They fyrste that fyndes and bringes mee to my grave, The priorie of Plimstoke they shall have ", but no sign of this has ever been found.
They now gathered the various constitutional laws they had passed into a single constitution, showed remarkable strength in choosing not to use this as an occasion for major revisions, and submitted it to the recently restored Louis XVI, who accepted it, writing " I engage to maintain it at home, to defend it from all attacks from abroad, and to cause its execution by all the means it places at my disposal ".
" They won't have me in the army, at any rate at present, because of my lungs ", Orwell told Geoffrey Gorer.
" They held a private memorial service in St Bartholomew's Hospital in London on the evening of 6 December 1989, with a chorus of the Chinese version of the hymn " Jerusalem " ("… Bling me my speal, oh crowds unford, bling me my chaliot of file …").
: They give me for my toil.
: They give me for my toil.
They offered to exchange him for Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus, who had surrendered after Stalingrad, but Stalin turned the offer down, stating " You have in your hands not only my son Yakov but millions of my sons.
They wanted to cast me in the role of spokesman for my generation, especially for those who had survived the war ; but for me survival was an individual action that earned the survivor the right to speak only for himself.
But the real importance, to my mind, lay in the effect they had on our own people, and especially the village masses .... Non-cooperation dragged them out of the mire and gave them self-respect and self-reliance .... They acted courageously and did not submit so easily to unjust oppression ; their outlook widened and they began to think a little in terms of India as a whole .... It was a remarkable transformation and the Congress, under Gandhi's leadership, must have the credit for it.

They and mother's
" They gave up on the memoir project and Louisa burned many of her mother's papers.
They were of mostly English descent ; Roosevelt's great-grandfather, James Roosevelt, was of Dutch ancestry, and his mother's maiden name, Delano, originated with a French Huguenot immigrant of the 17th century .< ref >
He left one daughter and sole-heiress Grace de Tracy who married John de Sudeley, They had two children: Ralph de Sudeley ( d. 1192 ), the eldest, who became his father's heir, and Sir William II " de Tracy " ( d. post 1172 ), who inherited his mother's barony of Bradninch and assumed her family name in lieu of his patronymic.
They lack a complex placenta to protect the embryo from its mother's immune system.
They leave the tram at the terminus and the executioners tie Weluhn to a tree in von Vittlar's mother's garden and prepare to machine-gun him.
They include a Native American in profile and a ribbon reading " Wino Forever " ( originally " Winona Forever ", altered after his breakup with Winona Ryder ) on his right biceps, " Lily-Rose " ( his daughter's name ) over his heart, " Betty Sue " ( his mother's name ) on his left biceps, and a sparrow flying over water with the word " Jack " ( his son's name ; the sparrow is flying towards him rather than away from him as it is in Pirates of the Caribbean ) on his right forearm.
They spend a night together and he gives her Dunson's mother's bracelet, evidently given to him in earlier years.
They warn her, her task is still not done: the other mother's severed hand is in Coraline's world, attempting to steal the key which opens the door that connects the two worlds.
They helped him gain possession of his mother's land in North Topeka, which he inherited despite his father's attempt to gain control of the land.
They noted that new evidence cast more doubt on their mother's guilt and said they considered her an innocent person, set up by the government.
They were accompanied by a beloved nanny, whom young Gloria had named " Dodo ", who would play a tumultuous part in the child's life, and her mother's identical twin sister, Thelma, who was the mistress of The Prince of Wales during this time.
They construct simple nests from whatever material is close to hand, often lining them with a layer of down plucked from the mother's breast.
They lived briefly in his mother's hometown of Seattle, Washington, and then in Los Angeles, where Lee grew up in the affluent area of Rolling Hills.
They were reported to have had 15 children including Marie Laveau II, born c. 1827, who sometimes used the surname " Paris " after her mother's first husband.
They soon attach themselves to one of four teats inside the mother's pouch.
They threatened to kill her mother if she did not cooperate, but Hannah held firm ( and probably saved her mother's life as a result ).
They are then separated into individual prairie dog burrows around their mother's burrow.
They gained their status from their mother's people.
They named the land Scota or Scotia, their mother's name, the land of the Scots.
They wrote frequently and by March 1920 Scott sent Zelda his mother's ring and the two became engaged.
They become independent by 5 months of age but may remain within their mother's range.
They will stay in their mother's range from anywhere between a few months and years.
They have an elaborate vocal repertoire comprising up to 15 unique sounds, and the young need to be able to hear their mother's calls if the emotional systems in their brains are to develop properly.
They are around 2. 5 meters ( 8 feet ) long when born, the longest in proportion for any beaked whale: 46 % of the mother's length.

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