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 rented the apartment of an American man who was away for the summer, and Nin came across a number of French paperbacks: " One by one, I read these books, which were completely new to me.

They returned in 1844 to stay at Blair Castle, and in 1847 when they rented Ardverikie by Loch Laggan.

They rented a villa on the road to Casablanca and during that time Orwell wrote Coming Up for Air.

They sold the business in 1898, using the money to buy five properties in Hanover which they rented out, allowing the family to live off the income for the rest of Schwitter's life in Germany.

They could be located in rented apartments, industrial units or store fronts.

They are also used ( rented ) by tour operators across the country, and by shopping security guards.

They rented property from Richard P. Hunt, a wealthy Quaker and businessman.

They rented a house on the block south of the Desilu Studios, where The Andy Griffith Show would later be filmed.

They rented modest quarters for the new museum in the Heckscher Building at 730 Fifth Avenue ( corner of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street ) in Manhattan, and it opened to the public on November 7, 1929, nine days after the Wall Street Crash.

They rented the courtrooms and jail space and hired the bailiffs, criers, and janitors.

They initially rented a sound system from David Lee Roth but decided to save money by letting him join as lead vocalist even though his previous audition ( s ) had been unsuccessful.

They also attempted to clean bloodstains from the upholstery of their rented automobile.

They convalesced in a rented house near Winchester in Hampshire and worked on the album Liege & Lief.

They rented a villa in Saint-Cloud, near Paris, for this purpose.

They are usually held at hotels with a formal dress code, prom dates, rented cars and, occasionally, prom kings and queens.

They are typically rented for formal events such as wedding receptions to increase the attractiveness of the chairs and decor.

They also ran a printing shop on the second-floor of their rented brick building at 22 South Williams St., Dayton, Ohio, the only extant building that housed a Wright bicycle shop on its original foundation and in its original location.

They rented out Knights of Columbus halls in areas such as Cambridge and Newton, and insisted that the performances be " all ages shows ".

They moved to Paris and rented several artist studios on The Left Bank.

They were critical of the Methodist practice of pew rentals, which expressed the social prestige of those who rented the most expensive pews.

They also rented a larger facility at 991 Tennessee Street in which to shoot some of their films ; nevertheless, even their fans conceded that Mitchell movies ranged in quality from mediocre to atrocious.

They built a small darkroom in Powell's bathroom, but shortly thereafter, in early 1970, rented space and built a studio.

They were rented from the British War Office as trials vehicles until 1954, when they were purchased outright.

They left the lands open and from time to time allowed various uses, with part of the Castle Field rented by the Town Council as a municipal dump for some years, and a small meeting hall for the Royal British Legion erected.