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They and squatted
They squatted on their heels with their heads bent far forward, their eyes only a few inches from the ground.
They played several gigs at squatted venues, including Crass's squat gig at Zig Zag in London, and the Wapping Autonomy Centre with other bands including The Apostles, Crass, Flux of Pink Indians, Twelve Cubic Feet, The Mob, Poison Girls, Hagar the Womb, Riot / Clone, DIRT and others.
They " squatted " on territory that was under the authority of the Iroquois Confederacy.

They and on
They crawled through the north fence and came on toward him, and now he saw that both were young, not more than nineteen or twenty.
They were tethered, army style, on stable lines.
They could hear the pony's feet on the dry leaves for a while, then the sound faded out.
They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.
They reached the guard house without alerting the men on the walls above, and Powers slipped through the door.
They got tin cups of coffee from the big pot on the coosie's fire, rolled and lighted brown-paper cigarettes, lounged about.
They were sitting on their heels, rider-fashion, over by the still empty calf wagon.
They reined in before the town marshal's office, a box-sized building on Main Street.
They moved in on him, crowded him from all sides.
They returned to the street, mounted their horses, rode through the rain to the big house on Houston Street.
They tracked mud on the oaken floor, on the carpet.
They were headed straight for each other on a collision course.
`` They were supposed to meet Thor at nine PM for a conference concerning the ad campaign for their soap, a new angle based on this SX-21 stuff ''.
They discussed the way people never tell each other the things on their minds.
They watched the tree until it twisted sharply on a bend.
They could come on him now without difficulty.
They are preoccupied riding herd on control panels, switches, flashing colored lights on pale green or gray consoles that look like business machines.
They inhabit a secret world centered on `` go codes '' and `` gold phones ''.
They differed in the balance they believed essential to the sovereignty of the citizen -- but the supreme sacrifice each made served to maintain a still more fundamental truth: That individual life, liberty and happiness depend on a right balance between the two -- and on the limitation of sovereignty, in all its aspects, which this involves.
They arise in situations in which one believes that what happens depends not only on the external world, but also on the precise pattern of behavior of the individual or group.

They and their
They were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door.
They had pistols in their hands.
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 lay a little too stiffly, with their eyes straining to stay closed.
They had spent a million dollars, carving in a road, putting up buildings, drilling their haulage tunnel.
They blame us for all their troubles.
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 had never seen a tultul but they had heard about it from their fathers ''.
They despise males who brag of their strength ; ;
They bought rustled cattle from the outlaw, kept him supplied with guns and ammunition, harbored his men in their houses.
They know little about their machinery beyond mechanical details.
They roll at night in ashes to keep warm and their second skin has a light dusty cast to it.
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 and heels
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 retain their herding instincts and may sometimes nip at people's heels or bump them in an effort to ' herd ' their family, and may need to be trained not to do so.
They allow one to maintain the appearance of sitting seiza while discreetly taking pressure off the heels and feet.
They bite very keenly ; and as they always make their attack at the heels, the cattle have no defence against them: In this way they are more than a match for a Bull, which they quickly compel to run.
They jump forward and backward, and click their heels.
They have short bills and specialized pads on their heels to protect them from the rough floor of the nest.
They were both playing as heels, with Nidia leading Noble to several wins, due to interference during the matches.
They range from simple one-size lasts used for repairing soles and heels, to hard-wearing lasts used in modern mass production, and to custom-made lasts used in the making of bespoke footwear.
They used a long-sticked spade called Jarrieh and Saloqqa, they tend their farm while standing, not similar to those of Hawazma deep in South Kordofan who tend while they are sitting on their heels.
They cultivate with Jarrieh a Nuba developed tool, tend while sitting on their heels.
They are on the shorter end of stiletto shoes, which can have heels as tall as 5 inches.
They were introduced in the late 1950s as formal fashion attire for young adolescent teenage girls as higher heels would have been considered unseemly for girls as young as 13 because of the sexual connotations and unease of walk.
They were sometimes referred to as " trainer heels " in the US, indicating their use in getting young girls used to wearing high heels.
They emerged again in the 1980s along with wedge heels and have become once again fashionable since 2003, but are not made in abundance due to the preference for Stiletto heels by women during this time period.
They have been involved in numerous Cornish music projects, run by Cumpas such as ' kick up your heels ' in which young people from across Cornwall played in a large underground concert at Carnglaze Caverns, or the ' crowders and horners ' project, to encourage processional Cornish music and dance.
They generally wear some sort of revealing costume ( mini-dress, leotard, hot pants, or the like ), as well as pantyhose and high heels or knee-high boots.
They usually have leather soles and heels that are glued in to place ( rather than stitched ) which allow the organist to slide his / her feet easily both along and across the pedals.
They soon became top heels in the company.
They disbanded in early 1992, however, and Morton was used as a preliminary heel jobber where he teamed with various heels like Diamond Dallas Page.
They were supposed to be heels feuding with Master P's rappers, the " No Limit Soldiers ", but the southern fans of WCW cheered the Rednecks instead.

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