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 could not imagine that the Germans, whom they had defeated only twenty years previously, could defeat them in a mere six weeks, as happened when France fell in June 1940.

They were transported to various previously fox-free Aleutian Islands during the 1920s.

They previously played at De Meer Stadion and the Amsterdam Olympic Stadium ( for international matches ).

They may be less effective than benzodiazepines in patients who have been previously treated with benzodiazepines as they do not provide the sedation that these patients may expect or equate with anxiety relief.

They say that it requires the complete renaming of only two exoplanetary systems: The planets around HW Virginis would be renamed HW Vir ( AB ) b & ( AB ) c, while those around NN Serpentis would be renamed NN Ser ( AB ) b & ( AB ) c. In addition the previously known single circumbinary planets around PSR B1620-26 and DP Leonis ) can almost retain their names ( PSR B1620-26 b and DP Leonis b ) as unofficial informal forms of the "( AB ) b " designation where the "( AB )" is left out.

They are experienced industry practitioners, who have usually worked previously for a number of years in any one of a variety of roles, such as producer, writer, director or script editor.

They presented the idea to Bright, with whom they had previously worked, and together they pitched a seven-page treatment of the series to NBC.

They collect the standard texts as edited by S. T. Joshi, most of which were available in the Arkham House editions, with the exception of the restored text of " The Shadow Out of Time " from The Dreams in the Witch House, which had been previously released by small-press publisher Hippocampus Press.

They also expressed disappointment in Muggeridge, whom all in Python had previously respected as a satirist.

They also could not agree a solution with the Cardiff Athletic Club, so they purchased about of land at Island Farm in Bridgend, which was previously used as a prisoner-of-war camp.

They could be used by maritime patrol aircraft to detect objects as small as a submarine periscope, which allowed aircraft to attack and destroy submerged submarines which had previously been undetectable from the air.

They were previously owned by Waterman Steamship Corporation but recently sold to MSC and now operated by Keystone Shipping Co.

" They did not discuss the implications for agriculture in depth, but noted that a 1986 study which assumed no food production for a year projected that " most of the people on the planet would run out of food and starve to death by then " and commented that their own results show that " this period of no food production needs to be extended by many years, making the impacts of nuclear winter even worse than previously thought.

They had all served overseas during World War I with the AIF on the western front, in Egypt and the Levant and had previously been to New Guinea.

They were not to be exposed for the veneration of the faithful, unless previously examined by the same cardinal.

They were reformed by a 2007 constitutional act, in order to clarify a situation that previously resulted in legal controversies.

They have a sense of " referring back ", but the person or thing to which they refer has not previously been explicitly named.

They also previously had Joint Integrated Units formed together with its rebel enemies the Sudan People's Liberation Army.

They acquired the dukedom and Duchy of Milan from the previously ruling Visconti family in the mid-15th century, and lost it to the Spanish Habsburgs about a century later.

They next won a seat in 1967, when Winnie Ewing was the surprise winner of a by-election in the previously safe Labour seat of Hamilton.

They were the only team who had lost three Super Bowls ( they had previously lost Super Bowls IV, VIII and IX ), and did not want to be the first one to lose four.

They had previously won Super Bowls XXVII and XXVIII but their chance of a " three-peat " ( winning three consecutive championships ) was thwarted when they lost the NFC Championship Game to the San Francisco 49ers, the eventual Super Bowl XXIX winners.

They were not universally popular, however, as tolls were charged for their use, to recoup the capital cost, and this was resented on rivers where barge traffic had previously been free.

They previously had an agreement with O2 to provide the same service.

They released no new material during this time, although Virgin did issue two compilations-the US-only greatest hits collection Upsy Daisy Assortment, and the 2-CD set ' Best Of ' collection Fossil Fuel: The XTC Singles 1977-1992, which featured remastered versions of their singles, including many tracks not previously issued on CD.