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 embrace independent poverty, usually with a `` shack-up '' partner who will help support them.

They allotted $500,000 three years ago to support Interama until its own financing could be arranged.

They opposed the Forand bill, which would have placed the major burden of financial support upon the individual himself through compulsory payroll deduction ; ;

They were inadequately financed, without experienced leadership, and lacked the general support of organized labor as a whole.

They had the unspoken support of President-elect Kennedy, whose own legislative program was menaced by the Rules Committee bottleneck.

They claim that, for this moral order to exist, God must exist to support it.

They are usually used for long-range indirect bombardment support on the battlefield.

They have low adhesion and generally can not support much weight.

They also do not support the re-routing of service in the event of a failure.

They later discovered nearly all of the food they had been destroying was not being produced for guerrillas ; it was, in reality, only being grown to support the local civilian population.

They supplement the VwVfG and the VwGO in the fields of taxation and social legislation, such as social welfare or financial support for students ( BaFÖG ) etc.

They landed in Toulon with only Napoleon's pay for their support.

They noted that 2 % of the lakes could no longer support Brook Trout, and 6 % of the lakes were unsuitable for the survival of many species of minnow.

They support and help their superior apostle.

They support and protect the various organs of the body, produce red and white blood cells and store minerals.

They are prohibited from holding the ropes for support when punching, holding an opponent while punching, or ducking below the belt of their opponent ( dropping below the waist of your opponent, no matter the distance between ).

They would support the focal point of attack from the air.

They contacted Tom Maguire, who had legitimated the Provisionals in 1969, and asked him for support.

They developed in the socio-economic and political cleavages that existed during the first three decades of the 19th century, and had the support of the business, professional and established Church ( Anglican ) elites in Ontario and to a lesser extent in Quebec.

They later made the decision turn off her life support, with John's agreement.

They laboured not only for themselves and their families, but to support the chiefs and kahuna.

They consider some verses such as those they say support slavery or the inferior treatment of women as not being valid today, and against the will of God present in the context of the Bible.

They see the primary purposes of this union as intimate companionship, rearing children and mutual support for both husband and wife to fulfill their life callings.

They also said agriculture should not be expanded, sustainable support capabilities should be incorporated into the area and pollution sources should be reduced.

They have taken responsibility for the nurture and support of those individuals seeking to discern God ’ s call to service as ordained or licensed ministers.