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They slept -- Mynheer with a marvelously high-pitched snoring, the damn seahorse ivory teeth watching him from a bedside table.
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" They lived in unwalled villages, without any superfluous furniture ; for as they slept on beds of leaves and fed on meat and were exclusively occupied with war and agriculture, their lives were very simple, and they had no knowledge whatever of any art or science.
They stayed in Phillips ' home, where they slept in separate rooms ; in the studio Orbison concentrated on the mechanics of recording.
They slept on hard camp cots without pillows, except when they were ill, took cold baths in the morning, and were expected to tidy their rooms and do needlework to be sold at various charity events when they were not otherwise occupied.
They become lasting friends because Pwyll slept chastely with Arawn's wife for the duration of the year.
They slept together once just before Stephanie first slept with Eric Forrester, and after forty-something years, a medical crisis revealed Massimo was Ridge's biological father.
They slept in the same room and had their meals together, behaving as though they were real brothers.
They slept together on the floor or in the cellar under the sacks and the cloth used during the day to catch the soot.
They then went to an island where ancient giants who had grown tired of the world long ago were sleeping until its end, and Niamh and Oisin slept and dreamt with them for a hundred years.
They awoke, imagining that they had slept but one day, and sent one of their number to Ephesus to buy food, with instructions to be careful lest the pagans recognize and seize him.
They slept six hours per night, from 9 P. M. to midnight, and from 2 A. M. until 5 A. M., with a two-hour break to " watch " for the coming of Christ.
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They poured through the opening in the valley, then spread out in a long line to come at us, brandishing their lances and filling the morning with their spine-chilling scalp cry.
They bought rustled cattle from the outlaw, kept him supplied with guns and ammunition, harbored his men in their houses.
They include the Navy's Atlantic Command at Norfolk, Virginia, which is in contact with the Polaris subs ; ;
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 lay, with the birds hopping from branch to branch above them and the bright sky peeping down at them.
They squatted on their heels with their heads bent far forward, their eyes only a few inches from the ground.
They recognized that slavery was a moral issue and not merely an economic interest, and that to recognize it explicitly in their Constitution would be in explosive contradiction to the concept of sovereignty they had set forth in the Declaration of 1776 that `` all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
They feel they are leagued against a hostile, persecutory world, faced with the concerted malevolent opposition of squares and their hirelings, the police.
They bring an inextricable component of value within themselves, with attractions and repulsions native to their own quality.
They were in fact quietly laughing at him, for their King wished to have nothing to do with the Western world.
They had lost twice with the radical Bryan, and were having no part of Hearst, whom they considered more radical than Bryan.
They kicked their horses through the deep water with their bare heels, drove the Rebels out of their rifle pits and captured four men.
They, however much they were in disagreement with the late Victorians over the method by which Britain was Germanized, agreed with them that the end result was the complete extinction of the previous Celtic population and civilization.
They were aware that soldiers went to town, in more ways than one, because of the monotony of camp life, to find the only release available in the absence of movies, reading rooms, and playing fields with adequate athletic equipment.
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