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 grounded him ( over his protests -- not including his true reason for wanting to fly ) and put him in the Command offices.

As Wisman put it, `` They have separate pieces of the pie, and we have the whole pie.

They put Kate to bed and wired Jonathan and sent for the young Presbyterian minister.

They were put on control diets to determine as accurately as possible, the normal cholesterol level of their blood.

They love to dust, scrub, polish, wax floors, move the furniture around from place to place, take down the curtains, put up new ones and have themselves a real ball.

`` They can be going along, doing little damage, then bang, bang -- they can hit a couple of passes on you for touchdowns and put you in trouble ''.

They begged Grandma to let them put a bed in the kitchen for her, but Grandma said she was getting too old to sleep in strange beds and be seen with her teeth out, and that she hoped to die in privacy like a Christian and if the Lord willed it to be of pneumonia than it would have to be that way.

They took nearly a month to investigate, marshal statistics, and put their arguments down in black and white.

They also made it available to high schools in the Hanover area and put a considerable amount of effort into promoting the language.

They say they make diverse sorts of it, some hot, some cold, and some temperate, and put therein much of that " chili "; yea, they make paste thereof, the which they say is good for the stomach and against the catarrh.

They also tend to put a very confident dive in front of a very difficult dive to ensure that they will have a good mentality for the difficult dive.

They included two nearly complete copies of the text, referred to as Text A () and Text B (), both of which reverse the traditional ordering and put the Te Ching section before the Tao Ching, which is why the Henricks translation of them is named " Te-Tao Ching ".

They may also be put in a basket filled with real or artificial straw to resemble a bird's nest.

They are exhorted to mind things that are above, to mortify every evil principle of their nature, and to put on the new man.

They also became more dog-like as well: they lost their distinctive musky " fox smell ", became more friendly with humans, put their ears down ( like dogs ), wagged their tails when happy and began to vocalize and bark like domesticated dogs.

They then had a more serious discussion regarding the chances of humans observing faster-than-light travel by some material object within the next ten years, which Teller put at one in a million, but Fermi put closer to one in ten.

They set up a defense force, and put up a blockade that, if passed, would force them to send in soldiers.

They put in place the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, which ruled until September 1979.

They also found the reverse side of the “ door ” to be finished and polished, which suggests that it wasn ’ t put there just to block the shaft, but rather for a more specific reason.

They did not openly express their gratitude to science fiction, because the funding depended on keeping claim to have originated the ideas they had put so much work into testing and verifying.

They were opposed not only to political ( statist ) struggles but also to strikes which put forward wage or other claims, or which were organised by trade unions.

They viewed former imperial officers and generals as potential traitors who should be kept out of the new military, much less put in charge of it.

They showed that toddlers develop their own individual rules for speaking with slots, into which they could put certain kinds of words.

They said it's an action figure and I said, ' So, you're gonna put a dick on it?