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.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

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 were originally made from lignum vitae, a dense wood giving rise to the term " woods " for bowls, but are now more typically made of a hard plastic composite material.

They originally experimented with the possibility of increasing the life of metal tools to anywhere between 200 %- 400 % of the original life expectancy using cryogenic tempering instead of heat treating.

They therefore originally bore the surname Spencer.

They were originally bred for hunting badgers by trailing scent.

They were originally used as a more efficient replacement for stationary steam engines.

They originally played at Boulevard Park, sometimes called League Park.

They were originally identified as outliers to a general trend of decreasing extinction rates during the Phanerozoic, but as more stringent statistical tests have been applied to the accumulating data, the " Big Five " cannot be so clearly defined, but rather appear to represent the largest ( or some of the largest ) of a relatively smooth continuum of extinction events.

( They had originally thought that there were two boys and one girl, but decided to keep the name Chandler, despite the baby turning out a girl.

They added that they originally considered asking Coleman himself to play the Gary Coleman role, and he expressed interest in accepting it.

They speak Afro-Asiatic languages, and originally came from Ethiopia and Somalia in Northeast Africa.

They originally lived in the Hawran region of southwestern Syria and settled in Wadi al-Taym in southern Lebanon.

They were originally slated to begin play in 1971, but Symington would not accept the prospect of having Kansas City wait three years for another team and pressured MLB to have the Royals and their expansion brethren ( the Pilots and the National League's San Diego Padres and Montreal Expos ) ready for play in 1969.

They appear to have been originally founded by some soldiers from the Second Crusade, who, on their way back, were converted by a Bulgarian sect, the Bogomils.

They measured the moon's motion against the stars, so the 235: 19 relation may originally have referred to sidereal years, instead of tropical years as it has been used in various calendars.

They originally intended to seek shelter with their allies the Crow but upon the Crow's refusal to offer help they attempted to reach the camp of Lakota Chief Sitting Bull's who had fled to Canada.

They are known to have developed in tribal contexts, as they were originally tribal.

" They felt that the originally stated significance values were " meaningless ".

They originally planned to depose Richard III and place Edward V back on the throne.

They were originally represented by the subkingdom Gymnomycota in the Fungi kingdom and included the defunct phyla Myxomycota, Acrasiomycota and Labyrinthulomycota.

They are generally divided into hypotrichs and stichotrichs, but were originally all considered hypotrichs.

They and the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim are the only MLB California teams to originate in California ; the Dodgers and Giants are originally from New York, and the Athletics are originally from Philadelphia.

They were originally invited to contribute parts to the pop version of " I'm Gonna Getcha Good!