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 contend that the Boers of the South African Republic ( ZAR ) and Orange Free State republics were recognized as a separate people or cultural group under international law by the Sand River Convention ( which created the South African Republic in 1852 ), the Bloemfontein Convention ( which created the Orange Free State Republic in 1854 ), the Pretoria Convention ( which re-established the independence of the South African Republic 1881 ), the London Convention ( which granted the full independence to the South African Republic in 1884 ) and the Vereeniging Peace Treaty, which formally ended the Second Anglo-Boer War on 31 May 1902.

They also contend that those who believe in paranormal phenomena do so for merely psychological reasons.

They contend that in order to fully understand behavior, it must be analyzed in terms of evolutionary considerations.

They contend that the Skene's glands do not appear to have receptors for touch stimulation, and that there is no direct evidence for their involvement.

They contend that artistic selfhood and meaning are emergent, relatively objective phenomena.

They contend that the twelfth Imám went into concealment or occultation in 874 AD, at which time communication between the Hidden Imam and the people could only be performed through mediators called Bábs ( gates ) or Na ' ibs ( representatives ).

They contend that it is improbable that penetrators could be made to burrow so deeply.

They contend that the risk of hernia is due to a physiological difference between patients who suffer hernia and those who do not, namely the presence of aponeurotic extensions from the transversus abdominis aponeurotic arch.

They contend that if some of the gains may have simply been the result of a country no longer at war, even an incompetent regime could achieve such improvements.

They contend that the Skene's gland does not appear to have receptors for touch stimulation, and that there is no direct evidence for its involvement.

They contend that many sayings of the Gospel of Thomas are more similar to Syriac translations of the canonical gospels than their record in the original Greek.

They contend that the expressiveness of the languages involved, as well as the complexity of the systems being modelled, make full formalization a difficult and expensive task.

They contend that behavioral finance is more a collection of anomalies than a true branch of finance and that these anomalies are either quickly priced out of the market or explained by appealing to market microstructure arguments.

They contend that human nature in a free society recoils from every attempt to force it into a mold ; that the more requirements we pile onto children at school, the surer we are to drive them away from the material we are trying to force down their throats ; that after all the drive and motivation of infants to master the world around them is legendary.

They say that the medieval Church statements indicate that no person could possibly be saved unless a visible member of the Catholic Church on earth, and that this was the meaning intended by the Popes of the time, whom they contend made no " lenient statements " on the matter.

They contend that the report exonerates rioters for their behavior and places the blame for their actions on the larger society.

They contend that she was motivated to kill her two children to rid herself of her financial burdens.

They will not be put to shame when they contend with their opponents in court.

They had to contend with monolithic glaciers and extreme weather conditions, including mountainous seas, 160 km / h blizzards and harsh temperatures.

They contend that because Roosevelt never demonstrated that the need for the buffer did not exist, the executive order was invalid.

They contend many of the events, especially the featured race, never took place.

They contend that the New Testament includes no authority for churches ' support of such institutions.

They contend that Mao methodically sabotaged Zhang's troops by ensuring they faced the toughest battles and terrain.

They inculcate and maintain good works for necessary purposes ; but contend that the principal and only works which ought to be attended to, is the doing real good without religious ostentation ; that to relieve the miseries and distresses of mankind according to our ability, is doing more real good than the superstitious observance of religious ceremonies.