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 were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door.

They poured through the opening in the valley, then spread out in a long line to come at us, brandishing their lances and filling the morning with their spine-chilling scalp cry.

They lay a little too stiffly, with their eyes straining to stay closed.

They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.

They squatted on their heels in the deep mud and Dill found a cigar in his breast pocket, passing it over silently.

They blame us for all their troubles.

They were sitting on their heels, rider-fashion, over by the still empty calf wagon.

They returned to the street, mounted their horses, rode through the rain to the big house on Houston Street.

They brought to it all the odors that clung to men like themselves, that of their own sweat, of campfire smoke, of horses and cattle.

`` They were supposed to meet Thor at nine PM for a conference concerning the ad campaign for their soap, a new angle based on this SX-21 stuff ''.

They discussed the way people never tell each other the things on their minds.

They despise males who brag of their strength ; ;

They bought rustled cattle from the outlaw, kept him supplied with guns and ammunition, harbored his men in their houses.

They know little about their machinery beyond mechanical details.

They squatted on their heels with their heads bent far forward, their eyes only a few inches from the ground.

They roll at night in ashes to keep warm and their second skin has a light dusty cast to it.

They feel they are leagued against a hostile, persecutory world, faced with the concerted malevolent opposition of squares and their hirelings, the police.

`` They wouldn't have sold me in the first place if there'd been food enough to go around ''.

They went shopping in the neighborhood, and bought two loaves of bread with the ration coupons they had been given in Blois, and some cheese, and a dozen eggs, and a bag of oranges from a peddler in the Place Redoute -- the first oranges they had seen since they landed.

They advanced in a line across the entrance hall to the stairway and up, with gingerly steps, towards the first landing.

They were able to experience at first, in terms of past conventionality.

They were stressed in the speeches of Si Mubarak Bekkai when the first Council of Ministers was formed and again when the Istiqlal took a leading role in the second Council.

They are the only poems that he rearranged as a group between their first appearance ( in Satires Of Circumstance ) and the publication of the Collected Poems.

Almost the first step in the corruption of Pip's values is the unworthy shame he feels when Estella cruelly remarks the coarseness of his hands: `` They had never troubled me before, but they troubled me now, as vulgar appendages ''.

They graduated together from Atlanta's Turner High School, where Valedictorian Holmes was first in the class and Charlayne third.

They applauded every number, not only at its conclusion but also at the first statement of the theme -- sometimes at the first chord.

They had their first real fight, and Bobbie went off to get drunk.

They are attracted there by the calling of the first male to find a suitable place, perhaps a pool that forms in the same place each rainy season.

They settled first in the Ancient Pueblo areas for a few hundred years, then migrated to their current location.

They won the first eight matches in succession including a 5 – 0 whitewash in 1920 – 1921 at the hands of Warwick Armstrong's team.

They were concept albums, and typically began with an instrumental introduction which faded into the first song, often had an instrumental piece in the middle of the second LP side, and concluded with a quiet, melancholic, or powerful song.

They were well received by the king, George III of Georgia, whose anonymous sister had probably been Andronikos ’ first wife.

They started playing together as a duo, formed the influential London Blues and Barrelhouse Club in 1955, and made their first record together in 1957.

They acquired premises at Henniker Place in Kensington and produced their first car in March 1915.

They are first mentioned in the papal bulls Extravagantes of Pope John XXII and of Pope Benedict XII.

They are used to treat a wide variety of conditions and symptoms and are usually a first choice when short-term CNS sedation is needed.

They would draw and fire with their strong hand, and when they had emptied the first gun, they drew the second gun with their weak hand and passed it over to their strong hand.

They cite his defense of the Christology described in the first chapter of the Gospel of John and his significant theological works ( C. S.

They also demonstrated the first Bluetooth PIN and Linkkeys cracker, which is based on the research of Wool and Shaked.

They also started the All England Open Badminton Championships, the first badminton competition in the world, in 1899.

The Marquis de Feuquières writing after the battle described the scene – " They advanced in four lines … As they approached they advanced their second and fourth lines into the intervals of their first and third lines ; so that when they made their advance upon us, they formed only one front, without any intermediate spaces.