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 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 also suspect that the Continuity IRA arsenal contains some weapons that were taken from Provisional IRA arms dumps, including a few dozen rifles, machine guns, and pistols ; a small amount of the explosive Semtex ; and a few dozen detonators.

They voted to reward Jouett with a pair of pistols and a sword, but considered an official inquiry into Jefferson's actions, as they believed he had failed his responsibilities as governor.

They gather all the weaponry they need from a local weapon dealer ; machine guns, submachine guns, pistols, Suppressors ( silencers ), remote control bombs and head for Kingston, Jamaica to find Screwface.

They managed to procure a large cache of weapons and ammunition including self-loading rifles, Browning pistols, and Sterling submachine guns.

They are also used on pistols for practical pistol competitions, and are usually called compensators in this context.

They are trapped by Shevket and his men, but when Mirza threatens to kill herself, Shevket proposes they settle this with a duel in which only one of the pistols is loaded.

They attacked a Bowery Boys headquarters with pistols, knives, clubs, iron bars and huge paving blocks, routing the defenders.

They found most of their powder wet and pistols and carbines would not fire.

They searched the woods for several days armed with rifles, pistols, swords, and knives.

They planned to invade a cabinet dinner at the home of Lord Harrowby, Lord President of the Council, armed with pistols and grenades.

They were armed with a lance and small shield, and sometimes also with a longbow, or a light crossbow known as a " latch ", or later on in their history with one or more pistols.

They ordered 1, 000 pistols ; they had their own serial number range, running from 1 to 1000.

They employ plasma in anything from pistols to ship-to-ship combat.

They are chambered in. 32 ACP and are small pistols, designed for concealed-carry and use as backup weapons.

They had also 160 rifles, 40 pistols and over 1, 000 hand grenades.

They are usually armed with electroshock batons and pistols, and are occasionally seen using submachine guns.

They passed into North Carolina, where they fought on the 12th of June with pistols.

They range in power from weapons that are virtually ordinary pistols to weapons of mass destruction.

They have also imported Tanfoglio and Astra semi-automatic pistols under the Springfield name.

They are not just limited to pistols ; submachine guns, sniper rifles and assault rifles commonly use gas mechanisms.

They primarily manufacture 1911 and 2011 variants, though they do make several Beretta 92 types and have made other types of pistols.

They are followed off the train, but they are armed as the Duc smuggled two pistols along with fifty Hoyo de Monterrey cigars into the country through the British embassy.

They produce automatic electric guns or AEGs, and a small number of GBB ( Gas Blowback ) pistols.