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 too loved their families, longed for their villages: yet lacked the faith that drove one to dare the fearful chance of escape ''.

They look after their fields and children and water buffaloes in ten or eleven thousand villages, with an average of 200 souls.

" They lived in unwalled villages, without any superfluous furniture ; for as they slept on beds of leaves and fed on meat and were exclusively occupied with war and agriculture, their lives were very simple, and they had no knowledge whatever of any art or science.

They subject and despoiled the peasants and the men of the villages.

They did the same in the nearby villages of Donabate and Garristown before attacking the RIC barracks at Ashtown

They started with annual raids, collecting ransom from villages and towns while the declining Mughal Empire retained nominal control.

They belonged to various mainland ethnic groups, and on Zanzibar they lived in small villages and did not coalesce to form larger political units.

They had far more developed technology-they were farmers and had iron and copper tools and weapons, as well as knowledge about pottery They were sedentary and lived in small self-sufficient villages with a few houses, growing sorghum and beans, as well as keeping cattle and goats.

They built Chinese towns and villages, among which was present-day Kota Kinabalu.

They also regrouped villages and established a uniform administration throughout most of the colony.

They were common near villages at the periphery of the park and outside the park.

They included cities like Harappa, Mohenjo-daro, Kalibangan, Dholavira, ports like Lothal, Sutkagen-dor and Sotka-koh and numerous villages as well.

They lived along the Mogollon Rim, especially from the 1100s through the 1300s AD, when they abandoned their large villages.

They are often kept as pets in native villages New Guinea, where they are permitted to roam like barnyard fowl.

They live in over 100 villages east and southeast of Mount Cameroon with Buea their main population centre.

They have further villages along the Mungo River and the creeks that feed into it.

They lived in permanent earth lodge villages where they farmed.

They left the villages on seasonal buffalo hunts, using tipis while traveling.

They set up villages — actually just a scattered group of thatch houses and cultivated gardens — where conditions favored farming.

They lived in separate villages in Grenada, Tobago, Dominica and St. Vincent.

They are in turn divided into municipalities ( cities, towns and villages ).

They settled villages in the Toledo district.

They were used for patrol purposes, attacking villages, and guarding workers in the diamond fields.

They lived in large villages or towns, built plank houses and large canoes, and had sophisticated artistic and technological traditions.