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They tried to outface him, but Joseph Simmons was as wide as two average men, and it would have taken braver men than these were to outface him.
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They and tried
They both tried to keep smiling and winking for a long time, but it made their lips and eyelids tremble.
They were, in a sense, `` tried out '' in realistic situations.
They learn to like these so well that it isn't surprising to hear that one boy tried the oats he was feeding his horse at chore time.
They tried to sell 'em on economy and simple merit.
They were tried and executed one after the other until, when only one was still alive, the accounting error was discovered and that last surviving treasurer was acquitted.
They also tried to obtain a fee from him for leaving.
They note that the discoverers of the two planets around HW Virginis tried to circumvent the naming problem by calling them " HW Vir 3 " and " HW Vir 4 ", i. e. the latter is the 4th object – stellar or planetary – discovered in the system.
They tried to do this in a very secret manner.
They next string up a barrier of power lines around the city filled with a 1, 000, 000 volts of electricity ( 300, 000 volts had been tried in the first film, but failed to turn the monster back ).
They were nonviolent pacifists who refused to serve in the military and tried to live by George Rapp's philosophy and literal interpretations of the New Testament.
They were tried in an oyer and terminer court without the benefit of a jury, and four were convicted.
They tried to rescue him in a boat, but were able only to drag up his corpse.
They also claim to have tried filming the being, but said their motion picture film was ruined by the heat and humidity.
They later tried infecting people with " direct inoculations made from syphilis bacteria poured into the men's penises and on forearms and faces that were slightly abraded ... or in a few cases through spinal punctures ".
They made us want to make our music more interesting and more complex and we tried to blend that with our own personalities to see what we could come up with that was indisputably us.
" They tried everyone else singing it except me " Lemmy later said.
They were tried and sentenced to prison in December, 1996.
They slew 7, 000 Irish but, as the knights tried to move the rocks with ropes and force, they failed.
They first tried going to the Court of Chancery and applying for injunctions prohibiting other publishers from printing their works, and this was initially successful.
They secretly tried and convicted collaborators during the Cylon Occupation and executed them.
They killed the Minister, who tried to shoot them, during the takeover.
They were actively supported by the missionaries who tried to destroy all signs of indigenous beliefs, notably by razing the ' mahoka ' huts where the local population worshiped their ancestors ' spirits and by ridiculing their rites, dances and other ceremonies.
They demanded that he be tried by the ' Congress of Greeks ', rather than in Athens, although it seems that in the end he was actually summoned to Athens to stand trial.
They also maintained the traditional ( i. e. nominal ) claims to the Kingdom of France, but none of them tried to make substance of it, though Henry VIII fought wars with France to try to reclaim that title.
They and him
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 might kill him in his sleep, thinking there was money in the house.
They dragged him inside the building.
They weren't sleeping, of course, but they thought they were doing him a favor by pretending.
They expected greater things from him, regardless of how trying the circumstances, and they were disappointed.
They stared at him.
They closed in fast, kept him from reaching inside his coat for his gun.
They escorted him down from the porch and through the rain to his office.
They moved in on him, crowded him from all sides.
They followed him into the rain and across to the squat stone building fifty feet to the rear.
They crowded him in that threatening way once more, forced him to give in.
They trailed him across the wide hallway to the parlor, four roughly garbed and tough-looking men who probably had never before ventured into such a house.
They grounded him ( over his protests -- not including his true reason for wanting to fly ) and put him in the Command offices.
They could come on him now without difficulty.
They bought rustled cattle from the outlaw, kept him supplied with guns and ammunition, harbored his men in their houses.
They whirled and saw him, standing there dim in the slatted light from the boarded freight wall.
They were in fact quietly laughing at him, for their King wished to have nothing to do with the Western world.
They would be lolling under a tree sipping Ouzo, relishing the leisurely life, assuring him that the day was yet young.
They had my mother's opinion of him: that he was too sharp or a little too good to be true.
They don't expect to stop him, just slow him down some with the bat.
They were pursuing him.
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