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They stocked up on provisions from local merchants, visited the colorful saloons for a bit of gambling and carousing, then galloped northward with their cattle only to whoop it up again on their way back.
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They and stocked
They are also stocked in, or have been introduced to, some western lakes and reservoirs for angling purposes, although some fisheries managers believe this practice often threatens other species of fish such as bass, trout and salmon, causing government agencies to attempt to exterminate the pike by poisoning lakes.
They are stocked with trout and other types of fish.
They are also artificially stocked.
They run a number of youth teams and they have a fully stocked bar and are close to the small local shopping precinct and takeaway shops.
They ran this business until 1948, when Mirvish cashed in his wife's insurance policy to open a new business, a bargain basement known as " Honest Ed's ", stocked with all kinds of odd merchandise purchased at bankruptcy and fire sales, and displayed on orange crates.
They then activated their own castles, fortified and stocked them with provisions, and waited for a response from the king.
They were also stocked at Toppings Lake by the Grand Tetons.
They surrounded the church with ditches and stocked it with stones and crossbows.
They can be made in any size to order, but standards organizations have defined sets of sizes that are produced routinely by drill bit manufacturers and stocked by distributors.
They lightly stocked the land and relied on the limited water supplies and intermittent open grass lands to raise their stock.
They and up
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 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 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.
They picked up sticks and hurled them at the girl.
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 squatted on their heels in the deep mud and Dill found a cigar in his breast pocket, passing it over silently.
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 squatted on their heels with their heads bent far forward, their eyes only a few inches from the ground.
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.
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