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 reasoned that if all three families had a common ancestor, we should expect losses to happen at random, not only at the geographical margins of the family, and that the observed pattern is consistent with borrowing.

They reasoned that he lacked a formal appointment from Shoghi Effendi, and that the office was confined to male descendants of Bahá ' u ' lláh, the Aghsan.

They reasoned that the equilibrium value of commodities approximated to prices charged by the producer when those commodities were in elastic supply, and that these producer prices corresponded to the embodied labour – the cost of the labour ( essentially the wages paid ) that was required to produce the commodities.

They reasoned that they would change more minds about homosexuality by proving that gays and lesbians were normal people, no different from heterosexuals.

They reasoned that the model would be defeated at a referendum, and a second referendum called with direct election as the model.

They reasoned, therefore, that asportation was an irrelevant requirement because in modern criminal law, like the Model Penal Code, the sentencing consequences between an attempted and completed crime are negligible.

They were distinguished from non-philosophers insofar as they rejected mythological explanations in favor of reasoned discourse.

They reasoned that a small nation like North Vietnam, with a tiny industrial base that was just emerging after the First Indochina War, would be reluctant to risk its new-found economic viability to support the insurgency in the south.

They reasoned that the school, by then located in the nearby city of Annonay, would have a better chance of continuing if it were conducted by a religious congregation that could accept and train new members to continue its operation after the founding fathers ’ retirement.

They reasoned that by only having access to Afrikaaner resources the South African government could control them more closely than having access to a global language i. e. English.

They reasoned that the model would be defeated at a referendum, and a second referendum called with direct election as the model.

They reasoned that the Act of Union 1707 had established the number of Scots peers in the House of Lords at no more and no less than sixteen.

They reasoned that using advanced technology would better establish them as good designers and chose a color monitor.

They reasoned that upon translation from the original Hebrew, the Torah's legal codes & deeper layers of meaning would be lost.

They reasoned that if a primer pheromones were on the bedding then the sub-dominant's reproductive function should continue to be suppressed.

They reasoned that if duty faith and the free offer are true: 1.

They reasoned that the model would be defeated at a referendum, and a second referendum called with direct election as the model.

They reasoned that first the wheel must become detachable.

They reasoned that though the agreement did not contemplate the interest owed, it could still be implied given an enforceable agreement.

They reasoned that members of the public, especially impressionable children, should have a valid expectation to not be inadvertently exposed to obscenity.

They reasoned, begged, implored, until Wamba, anxious to get rid of them, said ,—

They reasoned that, since she is Faber John's ( in translation, John Smith's ) wife, she must be calling herself Smith, and disguised as a young girl.

They reasoned that he did not conform to the stereotypes associated with mainstream hip-hop and therefore was not easily marketable.

They reasoned that the monkeys viewed the large reward as certain: if they did not get the large reward the first time around, they would eventually get it, but at a longer delay.