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 repeatedly denied that the weapons being brought into Cuba were offensive in nature.

They arose repeatedly in different hosts and there are at least 11 separate lines of descent.

They repeatedly infect this host over the growing season.

They repeatedly tried to impose the ironclad oath, which would effectively have allowed no former Confederates to vote.

They were, however, repeatedly subjected to severe persecution.

" They were still married at the time of her death on June 12, 1983 ( from pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease ) at the age of 80, although in her declining years she repeatedly called Martin " Irving ".

They were described as resembling the traditional lamian ( 拉面 / 拉麵, lā miàn ) noodle of China, which is made by " repeatedly pulling and stretching the dough by hand.

They encounter a truck driver ( St. John ) who repeatedly makes obscene gestures at them.

They mistook Bouchiki for their target and shot him repeatedly as he walked back from a cinema to his apartment with his pregnant wife.

They had clearly demarcated rights, and the Hebrews are sternly and repeatedly enjoined to treat them fairly and keep in mind that that they themselves were in the same situation when living in Egypt.

They can also be reheated and reshaped repeatedly without losing their material properties.

They have also engaged in reconnaissance activities on nuclear storage facilities and have repeatedly threatened to sabotage nuclear facilities.

They had sold the same burial plots repeatedly — as many as 16 times — and netted a profit of $ 3 million to $ 4 million, according to Los Angeles Times stories of the era.

They repeatedly looted the Korean coast.

They were to hold power until the summer of 1794, and they repeatedly purged the Convention of those they held disloyal to the Republic, ending with a widespread program of execution, the Reign of Terror in their last months.

They need the husband to protect them from a full relationship ... as women who repeatedly get involved with married men need the wives '.

They repeatedly entered into pooling arrangements to prevent competition, brought out competitors, or forced rivals to agree not to compete with them.

They will bite young that are begging for food and repeatedly do this until it stops begging and starves to death.

They are usually with a co-worker, a business associate or someone they repeatedly encounter.

They have repeatedly been stripped of their powers because of him.

They were taken to Fresnes prison where they were interrogated and tortured repeatedly.

They are repeatedly branched, with a slight swelling present at the junctions of the tubes.

They repeatedly called Major's bluff on an early dissolution of Parliament.

They were repeatedly tortured and coerced into naming family members and close associates, who were in turn arrested, tortured and killed.