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 estimate further that with sufficient experience and when cost-data of compact cars is compiled, the break-even point may be reduced to 7,500 miles of travel per year.

They were reduced to around 65, 000 in 11 combat brigades and the Air Force in 1997, to 63, 601 in 1999, and to 35, 000 in 2005.

They are reduced by at least a factor of two if commission is charged on winning bets only.

They were refuted in this claim by David J. Schneider, who wrote that " correlations between prejudice and political conservative are reduced virtually to zero when controls for SDO are instituted ".

They eventually reached an agreement, and the planned target for economic growth in the Second Five-Year Plan was reduced from 19 % to 16. 5 %.

They increased the production of oil in 1986, reduced it in 1987 with a subsequent increase in 1988, but not to the levels of 1980 when production reached its highest level.

They also said agriculture should not be expanded, sustainable support capabilities should be incorporated into the area and pollution sources should be reduced.

They reduced the usual frenetic pace of Sennett's films to give the audience a chance to appreciate the subtlety and finesse of their movement, and the cleverness of their gags.

They are not prone to “ carbon coking ”, which refers to carbon build-up on the anode that results in reduced performance by slowing down the internal fuel reforming process.

They refused to work for less than 10 shillings a week, although by this time wages had been reduced to seven shillings a week and were due to be further reduced to six shillings.

They usually involve a concern for those in society who are disadvantaged relative to others and an assumption that there are unjustified inequalities ( which right-wing politics views as natural or traditional ) that should be reduced or abolished.

They argued that under such conditions, the reduced danger to the climate is obvious, and this held even if cities were targeted, for there was less likelihood of mass fires.

They can generally be fired faster than a single-action, but at the cost of reduced accuracy in the hands of most shooters.

They, too, were considered an integral part of the rhyme, so that " pont " could rhyme only with " vont " and not with " long "; but this cannot be reduced to a simple rule about the spelling, since " pont " would also rhyme with " rond " even though one word ends in " t " and the other in " d ".

They are caused by intense magnetic activity, which inhibits convection by an effect comparable to the eddy current brake, forming areas of reduced surface temperature.

They may do this by allocating reduced annual allowances to the major operators within their borders.

They found that " the likelihood of psychiatric hospital admission was significantly reduced by ~ 25 % during the initial six-month court order ( odds ratio

They may be long and filamentous, or short and reduced to mere knobs or warts.

They are the most important dietary predictor of survival in older people of different ethnicities, and in the Seven Countries Study, legume consumption was highly correlated with a reduced mortality from coronary heart disease.

They play an important part in the 3-fold increase in overall mortality and the reduced life expectancy ( up to 13 years ) associated with Turner syndrome.

They are redeveloping flood damaged lots in New Orleans and helping first responders buy them at reduced prices.

They charged him in their libels and seditious conversations as having first reduced corruption to a system.

They also increased the number of ports they visited and reduced the predictability of their voyages.