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 acquired large tracts of land, both in Europe and the Middle East ; they bought and managed farms and vineyards ; they built churches and castles ; they were involved in manufacturing, import and export ; they had their own fleet of ships ; and at one point they even owned the entire island of Cyprus.

They used to be very common, forming some of the largest herds of mammals ever documented, but their numbers have diminished significantly since the 19th century due to hunting and fences from farms blocking their migratory routes.

They established farms and orchards supported by small-scale irrigation projects and railroad transportation, with small town centers at Hanford, White Bluffs, and Richland.

They are similar in nature to link farms.

They were given apartments, workshops, farms, furniture, and clothing confiscated from Jews and Poles.

They stay in small hotels, holiday resorts, on camping sites and even at farms.

They also trapped mink and muskrat in the streams that now run through many of the farms.

They knew what they wanted to achieve, which is shown on several early planning maps, which detail streets, homes, wells, businesses, farms, a school, tavern and church.

They were described as being " orderly, law-abiding, religious " and, by evidence of their prosperous farms and commodious homes, hard-working.

They include both grave fields from the Iron Age, runestones from the Viking Age as well as newer curiosities such as 18th century farms and cottages.

They had their own farms, which are now village greens in some villages.

They claim that the organs are grown artificially in organ farms ; in reality, the vast majority of the organs are harvested from slaves.

They clung to their traditional lifestyle as long as possible ; when environmental degradation made that impossible, they sought jobs on white farms, ranches or in cities.

They lived in the Norwegian forests for many centuries but were later prized for their hunting skills and were used on Norwegian farms.

They need to provide for the entire family in labor and care for the farms and family.

They point to the long term deterioration of the environment caused by the artificial means which are the only way to meet the standards, or which drive family farms out of business in favor of larger scale agribusiness.

They are attracted to recently butchered carcasses on farms and ranches.

They took the survey to be a forerunner of increased Canadian migration to the territory, which the Métis perceived as a threat to their way of life — more specifically, they feared losing their farms.

They have many farms, and run several greenhouses and stores.

They are thought to repel aphids, bed bugs ( Cimex lectularius ), leafhoppers, spider mites, harlequin bugs, ticks, pickleworms and imported cabbage worms, among others that are in gardens and farms.

They are also found at airports, blueberry farms and abandoned strip mines in the east.

They wanted to make land grants to Loyalists who left property in the Thirteen Colonies to reward them for loyalty, and the Crown also wanted to develop this area of the country with farms and towns.

" They toured Texas prison farms recording work songs, reels, ballads, and blues from prisoners such as James " Iron Head " Baker, Mose " Clear Rock " Platt, and Lightnin ’ Washington.

They have been reported to live for up to twenty two years on fur farms, and up to eighteen years in the wild.