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They were long-serving classicists, presiding over a learned business that printed 5 or 10 titles each year, such as Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon ( 1843 ), and they displayed little or no desire to expand its trade.
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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 long-serving
They are one of the more long-serving franchises in American soccer, having previously played in the first division A-League until 2003.
They include the church's long-serving 19th-Century rector, the Rev Pierce Galliard Smith, and Colonel John George Nathaniel Gibbes, who occupied Yarralumla homestead from 1859 until his death 14 years later.
They and classicists
They are a far cry from the works of the first Philippine national artist and most popular painter Fernando Amorsolo and the other classicists who painted bright cheery scenes of flawless Filipinos and their idealized daily routines.
They and presiding
They also prevented a Constitutional bishop from presiding at the burial, as the laws of France then required, so no burial service was held.
They are elected in the assembly of the tribes, with the consul presiding.
They were not salaried but received a fee of several dollars for each court order served from the presiding JP of their precinct.
They possess a spiritual temple, in which God is presiding ".
They could take certain minor services with license from the presiding minister of the congregation.
They also have faith in Kailu Bir, Nag Deota, Khetra pal and Bambir, each being a presiding power over natural resources.
They form, with the Bailiff as presiding judge, the Royal Court in each Bailiwick.
They may do traditional work of " ministry " ( i. e., preaching, presiding at worship, etc.
They were published under an editorial board consisting of the Chief Justices of the Territories and the presiding judge of the Court of Appeal for Eastern Africa.
They were each sentenced to imprisonment for life on each count to be served cumulatively ; the presiding judge, Justice Brian Martin, stated that the men were " in the business of killing for pleasure " and were also " incapable of true rehabilitation ".
They were available to help resolve procedural disputes, and to provide a mechanism through which electors could appeal decisions of the presiding magistrate.
They are usually dedicated to one primary deity, the presiding deity, and other deities associated with the main deity.
They sit on the stand and are often invited by the presiding authority to speak to the congregation.
They were convicted in federal court ( with Judge Sawyer presiding ) and sentenced to eight months in prison and fined $ 300 each.
They and over
They squatted on their heels in the deep mud and Dill found a cigar in his breast pocket, passing it over silently.
They made Jess double over.
`` They haven't seen us '', Greg yelled to himself over the engine noise.
They grounded him ( over his protests -- not including his true reason for wanting to fly ) and put him in the Command offices.
They are situated in the midst of trees, which hang over them, and appear truly romantick.
They, however much they were in disagreement with the late Victorians over the method by which Britain was Germanized, agreed with them that the end result was the complete extinction of the previous Celtic population and civilization.
They went up against an SS unit of comparable size, over a little rise of ground, over an open field.
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 crowded the small room and peered over one another's shoulders to watch the handless man write his name in the book.
They won't never git over inter loyal western Virginia, them traitors!!
They had closed over, absolutely, with the sealing of old Izaak's grave.
They form effective fallout shelters when mounded over with earth, as shown in figure 10.
They range from an eight-foot pram, which you can build yourself for less than $50, to auxiliary sailboats which can cost over $100,000.
They must in their planning be able to count on at least tentative commitments of foreign capital assistance over periods of several years.
They had winged over the Adriatic, they had taken Bari by complete surprise and now they were battering her, attacking with deadly skill.
They got it over the side and clambered aboard only a few minutes before their schooner went under.
They overran the 7th Cav's forward machine-gun positions through sheer weight of numbers, over piles of their own dead.
They spread over an area no larger than Oregon ; ;
They knew that I was still grieving over the tragic event, and they felt that if I could see the recovery and the spirit of the people, who hold no grudge, but who also regret Pearl Harbor, I would be happier and would understand better a new Japan.
They were all three bent over a shabby riding boot ; ;
They are accused of whisking secrets out of naval strongrooms over which they kept guard.
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