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They were a sight more comfortable than the ones in the jail with the cold air from Hirey's air conditioner coming through the grille ''.
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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 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 were running from something.
They were a pair of lost, whipped kids, Morgan thought as he went to bed.
They passed ranches that were framed dark gray against the black hills.
They were tethered, army style, on stable lines.
They bawled questions that were not answered in the uproar.
They were about a mile off ; ;
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 were going to town, and they were both excited.
They were free.
They were in a fight, outweighed in both numbers and money.
They were sitting on their heels, rider-fashion, over by the still empty calf wagon.
They were considering it gravely, neither seeming to like what he planned.
They were silent for a little while, each looking glum.
They were all good men.
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 were married over the week-end, though he was easily sixty and she could not have been even thirty.
They were west of the Sabine, but only God knew where.
They were engulfed by the weird silence, broken only by the low, angry murmur of the river.
They were already swollen to bursting.
They and sight
`` They ain't even in sight ''!!
They would all lie around on the rug during the meal, a very pretty sight as Rob Roy, Prudence, and Calamity Jane were all snow-white.
They had suffered, in sulky silence, the sight of his sharp practice in Cicero.
They tell you horses go crazy at the sight or smell of a bear or a lion, but these didn't.
They curl up and die at the sight of something strange and alien -- like a spaceship ''.
They drifted within sight of Clipperton, but were unable to reach it.
They come from what is oldest in Coleridge's nature, his uninvited and irrepressible intuition, magical and rare, vivid beyond common sight of common things, sweet beyond sound of things heard.
" They are said to be invisible, but a person with " second sight " can see them, often in the form of a cat, dog, or other household pet.
They are often called " sight words " because they are memorized by sight with the whole language approach.
They sight a column of retreating Turkish soldiers who have just slaughtered the people of Tafas.
They believed men and women were equal in the sight of God, and should be treated equally on earth, too.
They killed any Indian on sight and initiated the Colorado War.
They should disappear like the fog or mist vanishes in plain sight with the rising of the sun.
They are also common on small-bore vermin rifles, where reducing the muzzle rise allows the shooter to see the bullet impact through a telescopic sight.
They say they will shoot him on sight.
They were used to set a watch for the actual sight, so that no chronometers were ever exposed to the wind and salt water on deck.
They had a mass of around 44 kg ( 96 lb ), making the wearer a spectacular sight yet proved too unwieldy during a police raid at Glenrowan.
They presents an impressive sight of two almost indistinguishable drops as the river flows over the cliff face.
They hunt by sight, rather than by feel as longer-billed waders like snipes do.
* Water level indicators: They show the operator the level of fluid in the boiler, also known as a sight glass, water gauge or water column is provided.
They put to flight some badly-led Royalist cavalry, and the alarm caused all of Hopton's army to form up and began advancing west, till they came in sight of Waller's position.
They are now a rare sight in modern hi-fi usage.
They are however a common sight at Japanese Buddhist temples too, where they stand at the entrance of the temple's own shrine, called and usually very small.
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