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 walked the horses, heading along the river, Barton and Emmett Foster in the lead, seven men riding quietly through the night.

They did not complain at the inhuman hour of starting ( seven in the morning ), nor of the tariff, which was reasonable since it covered everything but the tobacco.

They walked slowly past the sherbet-colored cottages -- eleven lemon, nine mint, seven orange -- around the curve to a deserted stand with an `` Eats '' sign jiggling in the wind.

They were organised into three corps headquarters, two motor divisions, one airborne division, one artillery division, three mechanized divisions, one airborne brigade, three surface-to-surface missile brigades, two antitank brigades, one special duties brigade, and seven surfaceto-air missile brigades.

They consist of three independent brigades and seven independent battalions ( consecutively numbered ).

They won seven Nobel Prizes.

They have played in eleven World Series, winning seven.

They proposed the classification of legal system into seven groups, or so-called ' families ', in particular the

They had seven daughters and two sons, of whom the youngest was the mountaineer Charles Granville Bruce.

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 were mentioned by Julius Caesar in his treatise, The Gallic Wars, and by 391 BC, they were written about by Roman Consul, Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, who received seven of them, " canes Scotici ", as a gift to be used for fighting lions, bears, that in his words, " all Rome viewed with wonder ".

They had seven children:

They had known him for seven years at the time.

Injustice, hardship and pain often pressed on the shoulders of Warmians and Masurians ... Dislike, injustice and violence surrounds us ... They ( Warmians and Masurians ) demand respect for their differentness, grown in the course of seven centuries and for freedom to maintain their traditions ".

They are seven prophets of Israel and five Sibyls, prophetic women of the Classical world.

They are third in appearances in a Super Bowl with seven ( the Pittsburgh Steelers and Dallas Cowboys each have 8 ), and have the most appearances in the last 25 years.

They sent pianos to both Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven, and were the first firm to build pianos with a range of more than five octaves: five octaves and a fifth during the 1790s, six octaves by 1810 ( Beethoven used the extra notes in his later works ), and seven octaves by 1820.

They also signed free agent pitcher Barry Zito to a seven year contract worth $ 126 million.

They evoke the sun, the seven seas, and the seven continents, and represent another means, besides the torch, whereby Liberty enlightens the world.

They set an NFL record with seven wins by at least 25 points.

My son and his girlfriend had celebrated their wedding at 6 p. m ... They took seven bodies out of the truck ... three were children-Yolanda ’ s daughters, twelve, thirteen and fourteen years old .”

They have undertaken seven major world tours and scored multiple films.

They repeated as American League champions the following year, then lost the 2011 World Series to the St. Louis Cardinals in seven games.

* In episode seven of season two of the TV series Charmed, entitled " They ` re everywhere ," the Akashic records are the basis of power for a group of knowledge-stealing warlocks.