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 met Mark Mothersbaugh around 1970, who introduced them to the pamphlet " Jocko Homo Heavenbound ", which includes an illustration of a winged devil labeled " D-EVOLUTION " and would later inspire the song " Jocko Homo ".

They executed Central-Asian animal motifs with Greek realism: winged gryphons attacking horses, battling stags, deer, and eagles, combined with everyday motifs like milking ewes.

They were represented in winged bull form, derived from the colossal bulls used as protective genii of royal palaces, the name " shed " assumed also the meaning of a propitious genius in Babylonian magic literature.

They are cylindrical, with prominent shoulder or winged.

They are winged, flitting from place to place.

They are shorter legged and longer winged than Little Stint.

They head into the land of the Gargoyles and at first repel them successfully because the winged wooden creatures are startled by loud noises.

They are mainly fruit eating but will take sometimes insects, especially winged termites.

They will descend to the ground to feast on emerging winged termites, hunt at dusk for small bats ( such as Cynopterus sphinx ) and in rare instances they may even resort to feed on carrion.

They are attracted to swarms of winged termites and as many as 40 birds have been seen to perch on a 70 metre stretch of electric wires.

They may however take insects occasionally and have been recorded feeding on winged termites.

They rode the thunder chariot, using winged dragons as the inner pair and green dragons as the outer pair.

They are exquisite, winged, fairy-like creatures ranking between angels and evil spirits.

They are followed by woody seed pods, about 5 cm in diameter, which contain numerous flat, winged seeds.

They resemble winged humans with avian heads and feet ; their society is completely communist, with individual possessions seen as reducing the individual's freedom.

The stipules are produced in pairs, and their form is distinctive for Psychotria viridis: They are 5 – 25 x 4 – 12 mm, elliptic in outline, sharply angled at the apex, papery to membranaceous in texture, ciliate ( i. e., fringed ) along the upper margins, and longitudinally flanged or winged along the middle ( Figure 4A ).

They are biennials ( rarely short-lived perennials ) with branched, spinose winged stems, growing 0. 5-3 m tall.

They also have a preference for the eggs, pupae and winged phases of the insects.

They open when mature to release the small, long, winged seeds.

They open when mature to release the small, long, winged seeds.

They were represented in winged bull form, derived from the colossal bulls used as protective genii of royal palaces, the name " Shed " assumed also the meaning of a propitious genius in Babylonian magical literature.

They are soft-bodied, elongate, winged terrestrial predators.