They were considering it gravely, neither seeming to like what he planned.

They brought to it all the odors that clung to men like themselves, that of their own sweat, of campfire smoke, of horses and cattle.

They are preoccupied riding herd on control panels, switches, flashing colored lights on pale green or gray consoles that look like business machines.

They were not diplomats or jazz musicians, or even organizers of reading-rooms and photo-montage displays, but rugged capitalist entrepreneurs like Henry Ford, Hugh Cooper, Thomas Campbell, the International Harvester Co., and David W. Griffith.

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 were like two strangers.

They were strays of every kind -- university students and journalists, Village hangers-on and barflies, taxi drivers and editors and unknown poets, as well as friends like Elinor Wylie and William Rose Benet, the Van Dorens and Nathan, Rebecca West and Hugh Walpole and Osbert Sitwell, Laurence Stallings, Lewis Browne, William Seabrook, Arthur Hopkins, the Woodwards.

They like it and would supply most of the capital because of the long term leases by strong oil companies.

They wanted to see what his back felt like -- the General's.

They vex us and perplex us but generally do not divide us like the issues which follow the problems.

They can even be rather grand, like Edward Land's monument to the astonishing success of Polaroid.

They learn to like these so well that it isn't surprising to hear that one boy tried the oats he was feeding his horse at chore time.

They like to be dominated.

They charged into the enemy like wild men.

`` They don't like it if I do anything away from home.

They may even dismiss it from their minds as something that concerns only the `` ecclesiastical Rover Boys '', as someone has dubbed them, who like to go to national and international assemblies, and have expense accounts that permit them to do so.

They suggested several new foods, and usually I found them good, except the sweets, which I think I could learn to like.

They kept drifting apart and merging again in his mind like some minute form of life on a microscope slide.

Thornburg added in a lower voice but Andy overheard, `` They act more like a jury than an audience ''.

They remained close together, their air trail wiggling like serpents traveling side by side.

They would like to convey the notion something is being done, even though it is something they know to be ineffectual.

They begged Grandma to let them put a bed in the kitchen for her, but Grandma said she was getting too old to sleep in strange beds and be seen with her teeth out, and that she hoped to die in privacy like a Christian and if the Lord willed it to be of pneumonia than it would have to be that way.

They know from their researches into television and the movies that knights in the middle ages had beautiful flowing haircuts like Little Lord Fauntleroy, and only the villains had beards.

They raced and maneuvered for war, swinging their horses in single file and then abreast like cavalry.

But humans can do something equally useful, in the case of certain enumerably infinite sets: They can give explicit instructions for determining the nth member of the set, for arbitrary finite n. Such instructions are to be given quite explicitly, in a form in which they could be followed by a computing machine, or by a human who is capable of carrying out only very elementary operations on symbols.

They were once essentially diurnal, but have adapted to more nocturnal behavior with pressure from humans.

They resemble humans in every aspect, except they are considered to be lower than humans on the social ladder.

They had one son, Charles Evans Hughes, Jr. and three daughters, one of whom was Elizabeth Hughes Gossett, one of the first humans injected with insulin, and who later served as president of the Supreme Court Historical Society.

They are associated with wisdom — often said to be wiser than humans — and longevity.

They appear as separate races in extended lists such as the one in Alvíssmál, listing Æsir, álfar, Vanir, goð ( gods ), męnn ( humans ), ginregin, jǫtnar, dvergar and denizens of Hęl.

They are not evil but might annoy humans or interfere in their affairs.

They believed that humans possessed a ka, or life-force, which left the body at the point of death.

They are an important part of the diet of most heterotrophs ( including humans ).

They also became more dog-like as well: they lost their distinctive musky " fox smell ", became more friendly with humans, put their ears down ( like dogs ), wagged their tails when happy and began to vocalize and bark like domesticated dogs.

They then had a more serious discussion regarding the chances of humans observing faster-than-light travel by some material object within the next ten years, which Teller put at one in a million, but Fermi put closer to one in ten.

They do have color vision, dichromate, but not nearly as good as that of humans, trichromate, i. e., red, green, and blue light.

They are engraved and painted using red ochre and black pigment and show horses, rhinoceros, lions, buffalo, mammoth or humans often hunting.

They saw in the aggressive Kzinti a major threat, and orchestrated the events that led to the humans getting FTL ships and thereby ensuring the human victory of the first war.

They are now even identified by humans based on their scar patterns.

They are neither able nor interested in going into space, and humans are not really interested in Mars, so there seems no reason for conflict.

They will generally not attack humans unless startled or provoked, although females protecting their eggs can be aggressive.

They are a vast group of people of various cultures and backgrounds, and realistically, the Adamist group encompasses any non-Edenist humans.

They continue their journey during which Nessus is forced to reveal some Puppeteer secrets: they have performed indirect " breeding experiments " on both humans ( breeding for luck ) and kzin ( breeding for less aggressiveness ).

They use the baby as a means to anger humans who have become afraid of aliens since the Xindi conflict and launch a campaign from Mars to drive the alien outsiders from human space.

They represented the furthest expansion of humans into the Pacific until the expansion of Austronesian-language speakers through the area around 4000 BC, bringing new agricultural and maritime technology.

They may have migrated to the island from the mainland around the time humans spread from Africa to the Indian subcontinent.

They also are far stronger than humans and in the recent series are smaller.