They closed in fast, kept him from reaching inside his coat for his gun.

They bought rustled cattle from the outlaw, kept him supplied with guns and ammunition, harbored his men in their houses.

They are accused of whisking secrets out of naval strongrooms over which they kept guard.

They kept him alive, waiting.

They kept up a rigid pretense of speaking relations.

They withdrew to Mercia, but, in January 878, made a sudden attack on Chippenham, a royal stronghold in which Alfred had been staying over Christmas, " and most of the people they killed, except the King Alfred, and he with a little band made his way by wood and swamp, and after Easter he made a fort at Athelney in the marshes of Somerset, and from that fort kept fighting against the foe ".

They also punished those who had too large a share of the ager publicus, or kept too many cattle on the state pastures.

They stand on the platform where the Batmobile was, then rotates downward to another level where the sonar-modification equipment is kept, from the special Batsuit to the hi-tech weaponry.

They broke their legs to prevent them from attempting to escape before being eaten, but kept them alive so that they could brood over their impending fate.

They are kept in a den, most often dug into the ground, for warmth and protection.

He admitted, “ I took over a last-place team, and I kept them there .” They did indeed end up in the basement with a 17 – 57 – 6 record for only 40 points.

They tied it up and kept it alive for three days, until a large storm arose.

They also kept giraffes as pets and shipped them around the Mediterranean.

They must be kept on the run constantly with aggressive patrols, raids, ambushes, sweeps, cordons, roadblocks, prisoner snatches, etc. Mass shootings of War in the Vendée | Vendée royalist rebels in western France, 1793

They were brought back to Paris, after which they were essentially kept under house-arrest at the Tuileries.

They kept their machines up to date, and had many factories and mills.

They rejected organizing, believing that only unorganized individuals were safe from coercion and domination, believing this kept them true to the ideals of anarchism.

They kept the British ships from approaching Germany, spotted when and where the British were laying sea-mines, and later aided in the destruction of those mines.

They kept the original texts and made copies to send back to their owners.

They viewed former imperial officers and generals as potential traitors who should be kept out of the new military, much less put in charge of it.

They also asserted that IE was not really free because its development and marketing costs may have kept the price of Windows higher than it might otherwise have been.

They also kept those pesky " tin can tourists " out of the farmer's fields.

They have seized the very means set aside to furnish funds for the lights ever kept burning at St. Peter s tomb, and they have carried off offerings that have been made by you and by those who have gone before you.

They are now kept mostly for their decorative and antique value.

They were more like factions with " members " drifting in and out, collaborating temporarily on issues when it was to their advantage, then disbanding when it was not.

They were doing little more than drifting around the Earth and the incentive of the rendezvous was over.

They remained fixed there within the drifting tectonic plates until carried to the surface by deep-rooted magmatic eruptions.

They abandon the ship and return home on fighters that have been converted into escape pods ( although some people who believe it all to be a test by some deity remain aboard the drifting ship and are not mentioned in the text again ).

They repeat the act over the next few nights, hiding their relationship from the master, until he discovers them asleep and naked, drifting around the lake in the rowboat.

They also associate with drifting flotsam such as logs and pallets, and sonic tagging indicates that some follow moving vessels.

They discuss the idea of nuclear power and its control, the rationale behind building or not building an atomic bomb, the uncertainty of the past and the inevitability of the future as embodiments of themselves acting as particles drifting through the atom that is Copenhagen.

They are designed to lift smoke away from the locomotive at speed so that the driver has better visibility unimpaired by drifting smoke.

They fear the " rekmas ", the point at which friends begin drifting apart.

They lived there for a very short while before Marius went off on his own and visited many places while drifting through time before going into the ground again in the year 1200 AD.

They aggregate in considerable numbers around objects such as drifting flotsam, rafts, jellyfish and floating seaweed.

They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.

They were eight feet apart when Roberts cleared the last step.

They are set apart from the amaryllis subfamily ( Amaryllidoideae ) by their superior ovary, the presence of saponins and the absence of the alkaloids typical of amaryllids.

They pointed out that astrologers have only a small knowledge of astronomy and that they often do not take into account basic features such as the precession of the equinoxes which would change the position of the sun with time ; they commented on the example of Elizabeth Teissier who claimed that " the sun ends up in the same place in the sky on the same date each year " as the basis for claims that two people with the same birthday but a number of years apart should be under the same planetary influence.

They were 21 inches apart to cover the 20 feet taken by the horse stride, taking pictures at one thousandth of a second.

They will travel apart, slow down, and then again be drawn towards each other, and again collide.

They were soon torn apart in early 1965, when Robert became embroiled in an extramarital affair and Avis ' heavy drinking led to her death from cirrhosis on July 5, 1965, the day of Gram's graduation from Bolles.

They both rise in the Manica plateau and enter the ocean in Pungwe Bay, their mouths a mile or two apart.

They divorced in 1962 after living apart for several years.

They move backward and forward in a longitudinal direction, tearing apart the prey.

They have the disadvantage that the diaphragm excursion is severely limited because of practical construction limitations ; the further apart the stators are positioned, the higher the voltage must be to achieve acceptable efficiency, which increases the tendency for electrical arcs as well as the increasing the speaker's attraction of dust particles.

" They now tended to dominate their cities from opulent palaces and country villas, set a little apart from traditional centers of public life.

They brought it back to the home of one of the men to take it apart and sell as scrap metal.

They are often perceived as being the chief malefactors in Serbian history, causing political or military defeats, and threatening to tear Serbian society completely apart.

They could either be remnants from the planet's proto-planetary accretion disc that failed to coalesce into moonlets, or conversely have formed when a moon passed within its Roche limit and broke apart.

They constructed the frame, made of 10-15 posts set some ten feet apart, which outlined the central room of the lodge.

They have no eyes and, apart from the darkened cerci in some species, they are unpigmented.

They remained a people apart for long, although many of them removed to Thingol's realm after Denethor was killed.

They differ from the alders ( Alnus, other genus in the family ) in that the female catkins are not woody and disintegrate at maturity, falling apart to release the seeds, unlike the woody, cone-like female alder catkins.

They experience pain when the two are apart, and relief when they are together, the mirror image of the lover's feelings, is anteros, or " counter-love.

They form a grid with parallel roads generally placed 1 mile apart.

They were very close when young, but came to live apart as they grew older, in the lodges for women and for men.

They were very close when young, but came to live apart as they grew older, in the lodges for women and for men.

They fell on four religious festivals roughly three months apart and close to the two solstices and two equinoxes.