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 abolished feudal obligations and divided collectively owned common land into private parcels and thus created a more efficient market-oriented rural economy.

They were still committed to several concerts in Scandinavia, so drummer Jim McCarty and vocalist Keith Relf authorised Page and bassist Chris Dreja to use " The Yardbirds " name to fulfill the band's obligations.

They argued that women have always had the same obligations as men.

They also found the distinction between contract and tort as sources of legal obligations.

They were prostitutes in the sense that sex was one of their obligations, but unlike the average prostitute, sex constituted only a facet of the courtesan's array of services.

They were more respected by their extramarital companions, both placing one another's family obligations ahead of the relationship and planning their own liaisons or social engagements around the lovers ' marital obligations.

They saw that the king had stopped taking the Eucharist and had stopped performing his religious obligations to the people.

They had obligations of support for the wife ( and family they married into ), but could always go back to their mother and sisters for a night or two of attention.

They not only entail the obligation to reciprocate presents received, but also " supposes two other obligations just as important: the obligation, on the one hand, to give presents, and on the other hand, to receive them ".

They abolished feudal obligations and divided collectively owned common land into private parcels and thus created a more efficient market-oriented rural economy.

They understood that in a community, ownership of property, indeed the very value of property itself, rested to some extent on mutual obligations.

They continue to tour when the members ' schedules permit, as they also have other music-related obligations outside the band.

They remind him of his responsibilities and while Richie gives in, he becomes angry and discontent, torn between his obligations to his family and fulfilling his dream.

They were to call together the officials of the district and explain to them their duties, and to remind the people of their civil and religious obligations.

They also perhaps were able to develop influence by the creation of reciprocal obligations with other important members of the community.

They saw the administrators as intruders who prevented their children from fulfilling their family obligations.

They follow a certain rule of life but contract no religious obligations.

They manufactured clothing on a mill and kept their lives busy by creating duties and obligations.

They had obligations to provide ships and men to fight for the king in time of war but were compensated by lucrative exemptions from taxation.

They determined that the U. S. government and its representatives, including the United States Congress, had contributed to the warfare on the Great Plains by failing to fulfill their legal obligations and to treat the Native Americans with honesty.

They also offer schools, sailing clubs and youth clubs support on navigating the legal obligations surrounding involving youngsters in adventurous activities.

They also discussed civics, obligations, and rights.

They also list the mutual obligations of the king and his nobles.