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 gathered roots, bulbs, odd ferns, leaves, and bits of resin from the rare Santa Lucia fir, which exists only on a forty-five mile strip on the westerly side of these mountains.

They are not individually identifiable, but they serve as the " straight men " and joke-tellers for each day's strip.

They continued it as a " zombie strip " after Ketcham's death in 2001, and they still produce it to this day.

They can entirely strip a young tree in the late spring, when they fly at dusk, often in huge numbers.

Harold and Fred ( They Make Ladies Dead ) was a 2001 strip cartoon in Viz, also featuring serial killer Fred West.

They were the first to travel along the Michigan lakeshore and also to cross the narrow and shallow harbor entrance that existed at the base of the hill coming down from the bluffs to the narrow strip of land eventually known as the Buttersville Peninsula.

* They also appear in a Desperate Times comic strip included in issue # 53 of Savage Dragon.

They wear a blue with white trim strip with blue shorts and blue socks.

They called club owners themselves to arrange appearances, and plastered hundreds of flyers — usually Pettibon's severe, haunting comic strip style panels — on any available surface to publicize performances.

They came to fish off the shore, to enjoy the natural beauty of the Atlantic Ocean pounding against the long strip of sandy beach, to collect seashells, or just to sit back and watch the rolling surf.

They remain on the street, now bordered by a green, grassy strip dividing the rows of stores on each side.

They have also published a new series of reprints, with complete runs of daily strip, in the same format at the C & L books, covering some of the daily strips from 1925 to 29:

They attacked a Japanese minesweeper and a transport, thought to be a destroyer, with meager results, and 9 naval aircraft based on the Legaspi strip.

They are printed on card with each line on a separated strip, like a heads-bodies-and-legs book, a type of children's book with which Queneau was familiar.

They assumed the current strip of red and white stripes in the 1887 – 88 season.

They offered to strip it down to just beats, but we wanted all of that stuff on there.

They have large and delicate gill surfaces, and contact with foreign matter can strip away their large scales.

They rarely appear in the strip, and it has been suggested they live with their unnamed mother.

They are distinguished from other gymnotiform fishes by the presence of a caudal fin ( all other families lack a caudal fin ) as well as a fleshy dorsal organ represented by a longitudinal strip along the dorsal midline.

They were determined to attack and strip all minorities that they came across who were wearing zoot suits.

# They tended to strip leading and trailing blanks and TAB characters ;

They appeared in more and more strips together until the strip abandoned the horse-race theme, and concentrated on Mutt's other outlandish, get-rich-quick schemes.

They were searched after being ordered to strip themselves until they were bare, and to keep their hands up.

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