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They stopped at the elm tree, tore off the bands, and cut it down, in spite of all resistance.
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They stopped expecting her to die the next minute, but only in the next day or two.
They all had the hard look of gamblers who had stopped dreaming, who automatically turned the cards, hardly caring what showed up.
They found that the increase of scores of general intelligence stopped after the mid-1990s and declined in numerical reasoning sub-tests.
They never stopped courting.
They can be stopped by a sufficiently thick layer of material, where stopping power of the material per given area depends mostly ( but not entirely ) on its total mass, whether the material is of high or low density.
They stopped so that he could get a copy of his " freedom papers ," to prove his status as a free man.
They stopped either at Chryse Island for supplies, or in Tenedos, along with the rest of the fleet.
They stopped criticizing the war and adopted no platform at all.
They were offered payment, the Danegeld, which lasted from 1012 to 1066 and stopped Viking raids for almost twenty years.
They were first marched to the Fort at Number 4 ( modern Charlestown, New Hampshire ), then crossed the river border into the Grants and stopped at Manchester, where Stark conferred with Warner.
They never captured the key town of Bastogne and were forced to bypass it, and although they got within a few miles of the Meuse River, their advance was stopped by the 8th and 104th Infantry Divisions, and the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions.
They passed through Egypt both ways and on the way back stopped in Greece.
They started an argumentative correspondence, fueled by Jackson's opponents, until Jackson stopped the letters in July 1830.
They saw that the king had stopped taking the Eucharist and had stopped performing his religious obligations to the people.
They stopped briefly at the confluence of the Yakima and the Columbia, although they did not proceed upriver.
They had not stopped ; since they were active in far later times, close to our own.
They point out that in Acts 21 Jewish believers in Jerusalem are described as " zealous for Torah ", and that Paul himself never stopped being observant.
They sailed for Havana in an American corvette, but the ship was stopped in the Gulf of Mexico by a British warship.
They were stopped after they had partly covered the mural.
They stopped at a mobile home owned by Jerry Alday and his wife Mary, to look for gas as there was a gas pump on the property.
They traveled across the Great Lakes and stopped at Fort Dearborn ( Chicago ).
They stopped many drug cartel leaders in the city, seizing such famous places as the Casa Grande for the government.
They stopped at the old stone house of Saunders Sanders, one of the two people to settle the original area, for lunch.
They also petitioned to make an extension from Westhoughton to the Bridgewater Canal near Worsley but stopped when the occupant of Atherton Hall objected.
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They mounted up and rode slowly behind the others at a safe distance.
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, 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 stared at him.
`` 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 came upon cheetal deer at woodland pools.
They include the Navy's Atlantic Command at Norfolk, Virginia, which is in contact with the Polaris subs ; ;
They are supplied, a batch at a time, by a secret source and are continually changed by Wisman or his staff, at random intervals.
They all swung at the same instant in the same direction.
They lay, with the birds hopping from branch to branch above them and the bright sky peeping down at them.
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 roll at night in ashes to keep warm and their second skin has a light dusty cast to it.
They have an ancestry extending back, however, at least to 1728, when William Byrd described the Lubberlanders he encountered in the back country of Virginia and North Carolina.
They were in fact quietly laughing at him, for their King wished to have nothing to do with the Western world.
They seemed to be at the White House half the time.
They had watered their stock at immense profit, then had raised the price of coal fifty cents a ton, netting themselves another $20,000,000 in annual profit.
`` They straggle at such a rate '', he told the commander-in-chief, `` that if the enemy were enterprising, they might get two from us, when we would take one of them, which makes me wish General Howe would go on, lest any incident happen to us ''.
They are enacted at the heart of the body politic.
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 start on the East side of the Schuylkill, have to cross over to the West to use the expressway and cross over again to the East at their destination.
They ate the cafeteria food with its orange sauces and Scotty gazed without interest at his food, the teachers, the heroic baronial windows, and the bright ranks of college banners.
They lay on his lap, palms up, stiffly motionless, the tapered fingers a little thick at the joints.
They turned at the bottom of Kate's steps and moved off in the direction of the park.
They set bouncing betties to jump and explode at testicle level while we more mercifully had them go off at the head.
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