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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 astonished
They went to the deaths bravely singing Aleinu to a " soul-stirring " melody, which astonished their executioners.
They talk at length ; Hermine alternately mocks Harry's self-pity and indulges him in his explanations regarding his view of life, to his astonished relief.
They all were astonished at his erudition and shocked at his total lack of interest in daily life.
They appear to be astonished at the sight of the apparition.
They were astonished to find a clean, healthy industrial environment with a content, vibrant workforce and a prosperous, viable business venture all rolled into one.
They were astonished to discover these new peoples and their culture, and they thought that by preaching to them that they would bring about the return of Christ and the end of time, a set of beliefs called millenarianism.
They were both astonished upon hearing for the first time Messiaen's " Mode de valeurs et d ' intensités " ( from Quatre Études de rhythme ), in a recording by the composer which Antoine Goléa played at a lecture.
They soon discovered that the legions of Indians were being continually replenished by fresh reinforcements, and if good swords, crossbows, and muskets had astonished them at first, they had now overcome the surprise and maintained a certain distance from the Spaniards.
Bruce Gelb ( son of Lawrence and Joan, and a former Clairol executive ) described the scene in a New Yorker article: “ They were astonished.

They and at
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 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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