They were about a mile off ; ;

They got tin cups of coffee from the big pot on the coosie's fire, rolled and lighted brown-paper cigarettes, lounged about.

They had never seen a tultul but they had heard about it from their fathers ''.

They know little about their machinery beyond mechanical details.

They never troubled themselves about us while we were playing, because the fence formed such a definite boundary and `` Don't go outside the gate '' was a command so impossible of misinterpretation.

But I suspect that the old Roman was referring to change made under military occupation -- the sort of change which Tacitus was talking about when he said, `` They make a desert, and call it peace '' ( `` Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant ''.

They were repelled by his noisy newspapers, his personal publicity, his presumptuous campaign for the Presidential nomination, and by the swelling cloud of rumor about his moral lapses.

They did not worry about `` experience '', because experience thrust itself upon them.

They laughed and, true to national form and manners, never talked long or solemnly on any subject at all, but some of them worried out loud about short memories and ghosts.

They had never seen one before and had expressed a curiosity about it.

They were an old fat couple ( as Linda Kay described them to herself ), a thick middle-aged man, and a girl about ten or twelve.

They looked so formidable, however, so demanding, that I found myself staring at them in dismay and starting to woolgather again, this time about Francesca and her husband.

They quote about the same mass threshold as that of the U.S. apparatus, but a momentum threshold about 40 times greater.

They talked and wrote much about the elemental functions of the body.

They arrived in Washington about the same time during the early postwar years: Kennedy as the young Congressman from Massachusetts ; ;

They understood and teased me a bit about it.

They all mean well, have great promises to make when they are about to go home, but drinking is their sickness.

`` They won't talk about who gave the information.

They had learned, both of them, about Abraham Wharf.

They borrowed a typewriter, raised about $2,000 in contributions, hired a secretary, persuaded a couple of young men to join them for almost no pay and began mailing out a collection of unstapled leaflets that they called Guideposts.

They were covered with tiny white blossoms, their scant roots clawing at the stony ground, and wild birds darted in and about and through them so they were nearly alive with the rustle and cry.

They are about to do so at any moment as it is.

They even talked about Lucille down at the Young Christians' League where I spent a lot of time in Bible classes and helping out with the office work for our foreign mission.

They were good-living religious people, and I can truthfully say I never heard them spread any gossip about anybody.

They think of it as a kind of spooky museum in which they may half see and half imagine the old splendor.

They seek thereby to lure the old grad back to the old scenes.

They had closed over, absolutely, with the sealing of old Izaak's grave.

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 were further stripped of old wive's tales by seeing the slender, lovely Russian girls performing feats requiring tremendous strength and with not one bulging muscle.

They headed in that direction and, at San Juan Capistrano By-the-Sea came upon Barco sitting in the quaint old Spanish Mission Drive-in, eating a hot tamale.

They stayed with a rancher Friday night and by eleven o'clock Saturday morning passed the old Garnett Lee ranch.

They were coming on at reckless speed for such old vehicles.

They indicated that no new errors were being made and that all old errors would be corrected `` within 60 days ''.

They specialize in out-of-the-way items and old French music naturally occupies a good deal of their attention.

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 looked at the ruins of the old Roman wall on the lower Via Veneto, then they went to the Farnese Gardens.

They later emigrate to Argentina, leaving Poirot behind as a " very unhappy old man.

They were married at King's Chapel on May 22, 1830 ; he was 30 years old and she was 29.

They moved to the farm on June 1 and optimistically named it " Fruitlands " despite only ten old apple trees on the property.

They are important in military engineering, and are also used to carry traffic while an old bridge is being rebuilt.

They chose to abandon the old tactic of stopping the enemy at the beach.

They cut through the meandering, organic streets that followed old paths.

They most likely originated in West Gondwana and are 67 – 107 million years old, so the oldest split could relate to the break-up of Gondwana in the middle Eocene to late Oligocene, 45 – 24 million years ago, and reached their current distribution by multiple intercontinental dispersal events.

They depart and Corum is found by a member of the Nhadragh, an old enemy of the Vadhagh.

They made him a minor, off-beat celebrity in Los Angeles and around Hollywood, and his friendship with old show-business types like Mae West and rising fringe celebrities like Korla Pandit made Criswell an entertaining presence at parties.

They appear to have split into old Persian peoples, Nuristani, and Indian groups at an early stage, possibly between 1500 and 1000 BC in what is today Afghanistan or much earlier as eastern remnants of the Indo-Aryans drifted much further west as with the Mitanni.