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 to promise fine presents to the loyal red men, as well as an abundant supply of trading goods at better prices than the opposition was offering.

They destroyed a trading house and pillaged the goods, and harassed French shipping on the Mississippi.

In ancient times Egypt also had strong trading with Punt. They traded cloth grain copper papyrus and gems for items like myrrh, ebony, ivory, and wild animals.

They claim that insider trading based on material nonpublic information benefits investors, in general, by more quickly introducing new information into the market.

They mostly live on big ships, crossing the interstellar space at sublight velocities ( according to A Gift From Earth, they find hyperspace vulgar ), trading in information and technology.

They also had other possessions in Jerusalem and Caesarea, plus smaller colonies ( with lesser autonomy ) in Cairo, Alexandria and of course Constantinople, where the Byzantine Emperor Alexius I Comnenus granted them special mooring and trading rights.

They opened trading posts and engaged in the " trade :" – a term which, under the Ancien Régime, means any type of trade ( wheat, pepper ivory …), and not necessarily, or only the slave trade, although this " infamous traffic ", as it was called at the end of the 18th century, was indeed at the heart of a new economic order, controlled by powerful companies in privilege.

They dealt inwax, amber, gold, ivory and also participated in the slave trade, but kept away from trading posts on the coast.

They are made with large glass beads the Ainu obtained through trading with Chinese merchants.

They murdered him when he tried to get them to accompany him to the king's manor to pay a trading tax on their goods.

They both lost ships and merchant sailors in trading through the war zones.

They also temporarily possessed Dutch territories during the Napoleonic Wars and the Spanish areas in the Seven Years War, In 1819 Stamford Raffles established Singapore as a key trading post for Britain in their rivalry with the Dutch.

They had been more inclined to support the French, with whom they had long trading relationships.

They quickly established a fort there, and with time a community sprang up and achieved importance as port of call, missionary base and a trading centre.

They also excelled in trading along the coasts and rivers of Europe, running trade routes from Greenland in the north to Constantinople in the south via Russian and Ukrainian Rivers rivers, most notably along the River Dnipro and via Kiev, then being the capital of Kiev Rus.

They tried extra-legal activities, a reduction in the size of the foreign fleet, and the re-documentation of foreign trading vessels into domestic carriage.

They traded both with the Spaniards, the French, and with other American Indian tribes, trading goods and materials obtained on the upper Missouri River with those of southern tribes.

They were probably hunting and trading in that area earlier.

They make way for Astaire who strides confidently to the front of the stage and delivers the song, which features the famous line: " I'm stepping out, my dear, to breathe an atmosphere that simply reeks with class ," trading the occasional tap barrage with the chorus as he sings. The dance begins with Astaire and chorus moving in step.

They began trading or releasing many popular players to avoid paying their salaries, including star scorer Zigmund Palffy, team captain Linden, former rookie of the year Bryan Berard, and rugged defenseman Rich Pilon.

Modern archaeological evidence increasingly supports Sheba being located in modern Yemen at or near the site of the famous Marib Dam, which was first built in 5 century BC They may have expanded at some point from Arabia into Africa to found trading posts in the lands currently called Eritrea and Somalia

They were able to sign him after trading Rodney Carney, and renouncing their rights to all their unrestricted free agents.

They worked in coffee plantations and in manufacturing factories, as well as dealt with trading activities.

They were a farming tribe and were therefore fairly stable in their settlement, relying heavily on hunting in the local surrounding hardwood forest, fishing from the river, and trading with the nearby fort and associated settlers to supplement their existence.