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 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 realize that by acting in concert, rather than individually, they will not be picked out as objects of retaliation -- economic and otherwise.

They picked up sticks and hurled them at the girl.

They were picked up four days later.

They have fragile bones, especially in their backs, that require support on the belly and bottom when picked up.

They named the fruit tlilxochitl, or " black flower ", after the matured fruit, which shrivels and turns black shortly after it is picked.

* They would have bypassed weaker opponents such as Odo, whom they could have picked off at will later, while moving at once to force battle with the real power in Europe, and at least partially picked the battlefield.

They did not like the perspective that new Esperantists, created by the traditional groups, would be picked up by UEA.

They are then picked up by di Gorgonzola's yacht, the Scheherazade ( named after the Arab princess and storyteller of One Thousand and One Nights ), which happens to pass by, but di Gorgonzola isolates them from his guests and offloads them the next night to the SS Ramona, a tramp steamer.

They secretly hide a picked body of men, chosen by lot,

They received the second overall draft pick after losing the lottery, their fourth top 2 pick in four years, in the 2006 NHL Draft and picked highly touted two-way forward Jordan Staal.

They also picked up rookies Donald Sloan and 27-year-old Ivan Johnson.

They acquired center Vlade Divac from the Los Angeles Lakers for the rights to Kobe Bryant, who the Hornets picked 13th in the draft.

They picked up college phenom Jay Williams with the second pick in the draft.

They picked the word " intelligent " because it had already appeared on Artificial Intelligence and because it connoted being something beyond just music for dancing, while still being open to interpretation.

They can be picked using a cane which has been cut with deep slits at one end and provided with a small stone fitted at the centre of the three resulting wooden tongues that are thus spread apart to form a claw-like tip.

They were compelled to surrender their firearms, move to the Fort Verde Reservation, accept a permanent Army garrison on their territory, accept direct administration by American Bureau of Indian Affairs agents and commissioners, have trade firmly emplaced in the hands of American government agents, and be regulated by an Indian Police force picked and trained by the US Army and later Arizona Territorial officers.

They are very tolerant of being picked up by younger children and handled like a sack of potatoes.

They were troubled, however, by an injury Zico picked up before the World Cup.

They are picked from the end of the branches and are fried in a tempura batter.

They can appear either below ground ( hypogeous ) or above ground ( epigeous ) where they may be picked by hand.

They are a loop of cable around a designated area, usually a room or a building, which generates a magnetic field picked up by a hearing aid.

They mounted up and rode slowly behind the others at a safe distance.

They had the house cleaned up by noon, and Wilson sent the boy out to the meadow to bring in the horses.

They looked up in surprise as Powers came in.

They had spent a million dollars, carving in a road, putting up buildings, drilling their haulage tunnel.

They lapsed into silence, and the freight wallowed up a hill, scooted down the other side, shaking and clanking to itself.

They went up against an SS unit of comparable size, over a little rise of ground, over an open field.

They will -- when they give up the donkey and the elephant.

They feel that World War 3, has already begun, and they are setting themselves up as a `` last line of defense '' against the Communist advance.

They lay on his lap, palms up, stiffly motionless, the tapered fingers a little thick at the joints.

They had been sitting too long to be able to stand up easily.

They spun and flung their rifles up.

They had cleaned up an old ice box and begun to buy fifty-pound blocks of ice in town, as the electric refrigerator came nowhere near providing enough ice for the crowds who ate and drank there.

They advanced in a line across the entrance hall to the stairway and up, with gingerly steps, towards the first landing.

They will give suggestions that can be worked up into field procedures.

They love to dust, scrub, polish, wax floors, move the furniture around from place to place, take down the curtains, put up new ones and have themselves a real ball.

They dug up a speech he had made two years earlier as a Congressman, decrying the more than two hundred statues, monuments, and memorials which `` dot the Washington landscape as patriotic societies and zealous friends are constantly hatching new plans ''.

They went up onto a front porch and into a small hallway where a dim bulb burned high in the ceiling.

`` They found something else up there '', she said half-aloud to the empty room.

They divide up the household chores: Cerv does most of the cooking ( breakfast and sandwich snacks, with dinner out ), Mantle supplies the transportation ( a white 1961 Oldsmobile convertible ), and Maris drives the 25-minute course from the apartment house to Yankee Stadium.

They showed they were glad that Carnegie would have a major orchestra playing there so often next season to take up the slack with the departure to Lincoln Center of the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Boston Symphony.

They must be freezing up there now.

They all had the hard look of gamblers who had stopped dreaming, who automatically turned the cards, hardly caring what showed up.

They bent over yellowed prayerbooks and looked up only to watch the teacher.