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 caught Trig stealing liquor from the officers' mess, and he got a couple of girls in trouble.

`` They can be going along, doing little damage, then bang, bang -- they can hit a couple of passes on you for touchdowns and put you in trouble ''.

They will often memorise the location of such nests and return to them to save the trouble of finding a new one.

They bully Stewart and regularly take advantage of his attempts to befriend them, which usually results in Stewart getting in trouble with his parents for something actually done by Beavis and Butt-Head.

" They thought I was nothing but trouble ", he said.

They had trouble with the European patterns and the lateral play and the endless, inventive cycling.

They had heard from their neighbor, Ed " old man " Frink, that Ike had been stirring up trouble in town overnight, and they had ridden into town on horseback to back up their brothers.

They had more trouble with the cities in Holland, where they took Haarlem after seven months and a loss of 8, 000 soldiers, and they had to break off their siege of Alkmaar.

They moved to California but Farrand had trouble building a clientele in that state.

:" They say a man is entitled to a trial by a jury of his peers, and a man's kinsmen rally around him, when he is in trouble.

They trouble shoot and repair pipe provers also.

" In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine it is revealed that the Klingon creation myth involves the first Klingons killing the gods that created them because, " They were more trouble than they were worth.

They usually resort to extreme and strange measures to avoid getting into trouble and to achieve their ambitions.

They discovered that the English mutineers left on the island by Crusoe a decade earlier had been making trouble, but that when the island fell under attack by cannibals the various parties on the island were forced to work together under truce to meet the threat.

They had a close relationship, but Elizabeth Stroud strongly disapproved of the marriage to Jones, believing women were nothing but trouble for her son.

They replaced earlier double slipways that had caused trouble and are mentioned by the Chinese polymath Shen Kuo ( 1031 – 1095 ) in his book Dream Pool Essays ( published in 1088 ), and fully described in the Chinese historical text Song Shi ( compiled in 1345 ):

They, like the Cork Corporation officials, wanted no trouble from the Irish citizens.

They may go through frequent job changes, as they become easily bored and have trouble dealing with frustration.

They were forced to retire from the race at Allahabad because of engine trouble.

Ironically, it is revealed in the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman that they perform fairly well overall in school, as their grades range from B to C. They are also always getting in trouble by Mr Krupp.

They both decide to go back to the afterparty before they get in trouble again.

They have a tremendous amount of energy for their size, a fact which can sometimes lead to trouble involving larger animals.

They felt that the party was perceived as being tired, directionless, arrogant, and deaf to urban concerns, and that it was in political trouble in the crucial battleground of Calgary.

They had been delayed by rain and a rising river, but Tamsen Donner wrote to a friend in Springfield, " indeed, if I do not experience something far worse than I have yet done, I shall say the trouble is all in getting started.