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They and were
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 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 dirty
They argued
that speech protected under
the First Amendment
, such as printed novels or
the use of
the seven
dirty words
, would suddenly become unlawful
when posted to
the Internet
.
They were tired
, they had not been paid yet
and all of
their clothes were dirty.
They are bright children
, but those who want to prohibit comic magazines seem to see
dirty, sneaky
, perverted monsters who use
the comics as a blueprint for action
.
They are also trained in chemical
, biological
, incendiary
, radiological ("
dirty bombs "),
and nuclear weapons
.
They are troublesome
, very
dirty and live almost like animals
.
They also at times use "
dirty tricks " on each other ( Army Surplus shooting other cars or Gruesome Twosome using
their Dragon ).
They had banded together to fight
the Hun
and died by
the thousands in a
dirty little trench war
.
They were paid with depreciated paper
, and Otway arrived in London late in
the year
, ragged
and dirty, a circumstance utilized by Elkanah Settle in his Sessions of
the Poets
.
They are small
, matted
and dirty enough to sprout fungi
and grasses on
their hides (
and seem to relate to soil as trolls relate to rock ),
and act as street-cleaners in cities like Ankh-Morpork ; as Captain Carrot Ironfoundersson puts it
, they " pick up this
, pick up
that, maybe bang it against
the wall until it stops struggling ..." In
the case of at least Stoolie
, if not every gnoll on
the Discworld
, there seems to be a tendency to drop
the vowels in words
, reflecting a croaking sort of voice
.
They play
dirty as well
, fighting for control over a professional football team in Los Angeles with every weapon at
their disposal
.
They shouted "
dirty cocksuckers "
and " sick faggots ", shattered
the large plate glass windows of
the bar
, and attacked patrons
.
They were shouting '
dirty tramps ', ' your kids are animals ', ' Fenian scum ', ' you Fenian bastards '.
They complained about hoods being
dirty, having difficulty breathing
, and suffering
from headaches
and pain in
their eyes
.
They write this number to avoid writing
the name of God or to avoid writing Qur ' anic verses on ordinary paper ( which can get
dirty or come in contact with unclean materials ).
They responded by accusing him of drunkenness
, falsifying attendance records
and even allowing
the sale of
dirty postcards
.
They then had a dull gray appearance but
were not
dirty by any means
.
They married
, but Ellen noticed
that Byron
, her brother-in-law
, pushed Milo around
, giving him all
the dirty jobs
.
They are also a reminder of
the city's relatively large investment in public gardens
, a reflection of 19th century beliefs about
the moral
and health benefits of green spaces in often
dirty, smelly
and overcrowded cities
.
They faced a partisan atmosphere with a mostly Spanish crowd
and a Spanish speaking referee in Héctor Ortiz who
was unwilling to punish
dirty play
from the Spanish players
.
They can also use Digital Command Control or other similar systems
, though
dirty outdoor track can cause less of a problem with signal than with simple DC power
.
They discover
that by day
, the area they live in is a dreary
, dirty place
.
They perceive global foods as adulterated British fare
and view such culinary transgressions as personal affronts-finally responding with
their catchphrase " The
dirty bastards!
They control
the 1850
and 1996 junctures more-or-less totally
, and prefer to use armies
, police
, criminal syndicates
and their human secret warriors to do
their dirty work in places intrinsically hostile to them
.
They would get
their legs
dirty and arrive at destination with
their hocks black
.
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