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They and rode
They mounted up and rode slowly behind the others at a safe distance.
They rode to the Rockfork House, a little farther along the opposite side of the street.
They returned to the street, mounted their horses, rode through the rain to the big house on Houston Street.
They danced the paxam wildly at night, the war dance, and dipped their arrowheads in the venom of rattlesnakes and rode their horses in swift maneuvers, firing their few guns in unison at some indeterminate signal.
They mounted their horses and rode off into the hills.
They rode on mules with gilded bridles, rich saddles and housings, carrying hawks on their wrist, followed by an immense train of attendants.
They hit the cataphracts with arrows, and outmaneuvered them, then rode down their less mobile infantry with light cavalry that used scimitars.
They rode the Orphan Train in 1880 at the ages of 11 and 9, respectively.
They rode with no stirrups or saddles, just saddle-cloths.
They quickly commandeered the town, eliciting a promise of no resistance from the Essex militia in return for promising not to harm the townspeople or burn their homes, while a messenger rode to Fort Trumbull in New London for help.
They rode side by side for years.
They participated in jumping and steeplechase competitions but often rode for fun across the plains to the Ngong Hills, chasing and playing games with the animals.
They did not select individual opponents with whom to conduct honorable duels, but rode forth on horseback, with various forms of gunpowder weapons and the now-famous Mongol bow, charging into enemy lines and killing as many as they could without regard to Japanese conceptions of protocol.
They were, however, amazed when von Seydlitz's thirty-eight squadrons, or seven regiments, suddenly rode down upon the head and right flank of their columns from the Polzen hill at an incredible speed.
They rode bicycles, drove cars, and openly drank alcohol, a defiant act in the American period of Prohibition.
They rode through Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile, New Zealand, New Caledonia and Indonesia.
They taught their children from school books as they rode and returned to Chambéry to find that not only were they ahead of their classmates but they had learned several languages on the way.
They then rode to Chicago, where they disembarked the next day, worn out and in no condition to play the Staleys.
They were very famous for their horsemanship, for which they rode their horses bareback and held on by their knees, making them light, mobile, and efficient, and a good cavalry choice.
They are generally made as a large concrete block with a rode attached which resists movement with sheer weight ; and, to a small degree, by settling into the substrate.
They hit with hoary Hoagy Carmichael 1927 song Stardust – already recorded by many artists – which rode the pop charts for 24 weeks and got as high as US # 13.
They were related to the Younger brothers, who rode with Jesse James, though they acted later and independently of the James-Younger Gang.
They rode the ferry back and forth three times, with their father arguing with the man that the Klan was a bunch of " Blasted, bigoted fools, led ' round by the nose!
They rode to Mars aboard another spacecraft, the Mars Polar Lander.

They and around
`` They wouldn't have sold me in the first place if there'd been food enough to go around ''.
They would all lie around on the rug during the meal, a very pretty sight as Rob Roy, Prudence, and Calamity Jane were all snow-white.
They curled around the cuff of his nightshirt.
They all sat around and drank ice water, and the men smoked, and everybody had a good time.
They were pushed gently into the room by Arlene -- whose only part appearing were hands that crept quickly back around to the kitchen side of the door.
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 surged around him, fingers pointing, eyes prying.
They found a large welcoming group -- El Paso policemen, Border Patrol, sheriff's deputies, and FBI men, who surged around the plane with rifles and submachine guns.
They walked slowly past the sherbet-colored cottages -- eleven lemon, nine mint, seven orange -- around the curve to a deserted stand with an `` Eats '' sign jiggling in the wind.
They extend a pair of pseudopodia around food.
They scrape and bite food of many kinds as well as stirring up the bottom sediment, filtering out larger particles with the papillae around their mouths.
They dug a great canal to the sea, and alongside the bridges carved tunnels into the rings of rock so that ships could pass into the city around the mountain ; they carved docks from the rock walls of the moats.
They are far more acidic than alkenes and alkanes, which have pK < sub > a </ sub > values of around 40 and 50, respectively.
They are altitudinal migrants, generally nesting in the lower grasslands of an elevation of around 1, 300 to 2, 000 m and moving down to lower altitudes for winter.
They continued playing in clubs as well as over the radio around Philadelphia, and in 1951 made their first recordings.
They include a long line of TV advertisements in the 1990s featuring three frogs named " Bud ", " Weis ", and " Er ", the Budweiser Ants, and a campaign built around the phrase " Whassup?
They are commonly used as filler to depict background activities in an atmosphere like a bar or rec room, but sometimes the drama revolves around the play of the game.
They were reduced to around 65, 000 in 11 combat brigades and the Air Force in 1997, to 63, 601 in 1999, and to 35, 000 in 2005.
They paraded around for a few innings, but Wrigley demanded the goat leave the park due to its unpleasant odor.
They rest around midnight and then continue to graze before dawn.
They are held around the Commonwealth, rotating by invitation amongst its members.
They also accumulated $ 1. 7 billion in short-term debt around this time.
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.

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