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 straggle at such a rate '', he told the commander-in-chief, `` that if the enemy were enterprising, they might get two from us, when we would take one of them, which makes me wish General Howe would go on, lest any incident happen to us ''.

They showed no marked dependence on the flow rate within the accuracy of these measurements.

They are often in dual or quadruple mounts, allowing a high rate of fire.

They are often in dual or quadruple mounts, allowing a high rate of fire.

They were issued at the rate of $ 16, 000 per mile of tracked grade completed West of the designated base of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

They also note that though there was no deflation in the 1980s, there was a definite fall in the inflation rate during this period.

They are negotiated during the fax-modem handshake, and the fax devices will use the highest data rate that both fax devices support, usually a minimum of 14. 4 kbit / s for Group 3 fax.

" They won't have me in the army, at any rate at present, because of my lungs ", Orwell told Geoffrey Gorer.

They provide a large ammunition capacity and a high rate of fire, and are typically used to give suppressing fire during infantry movement.

They demonstrated their process in the summer of 1909 by producing ammonia from air drop by drop, at the rate of about per hour

They have a higher basal metabolic rate, and also a greater capacity to increase their metabolic rate when engaged in strenuous activity.

They have criticized neoclassical international trade theory, namely the Heckscher-Ohlin model on the basis that the notion of capital as primary factor has no method of measuring it before the determination of profit rate ( thus trapped in a logical vicious circle ).

They account for 14 % of the insect's body mass and are thought to enable a fast re-mating rate.

They account for the entire population increase as Shanghai's natural growth rate has been negative since 1993 due to its extremely low fertility rate — just 0. 6 in 2010, probably the lowest level anywhere in the world.

They have a very efficient food storage organ and a very low metabolic rate combined with a relatively inactive lifestyle.

They are unable to use health care as often, and when they do it is of lower quality, even though they generally tend to experience a much higher rate of health issues.

They allow investigation into how factors such as age, chemicals or the effect of light affect the rate of respiration.

They are only known to reduce the growing rate of white perch.

Sleep studies using polysomnography have suggested that people who have sleep disruption have elevated nighttime levels of circulating cortisol and adrenocorticotropic hormone They also have an elevated metabolic rate, which does not occur in people who do not have insomnia but whose sleep is intentionally disrupted during a sleep study.

They then read a much more detailed account of each study's procedure and had to rate how well-conducted and convincing that research was.

Their average growth rate by weight is about half the growth rate of domesticated carp They do not reach the lengths and weights of domesticated carp, which ( range, 3. 2 – 4. 8 times ) can grow to a maximum length of, a maximum weight of over, and an oldest recorded age of at least 65 years, but reliable information seems to exist about nishikigoi of over 100 years.