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 are superb craftsmen, metalworkers and jewelers ; they have fire, which is unknown in Green-sky, and transport people and supplies by railway, using steam propulsion.

They are traditionally cultivators, traders and money lenders.

They inspired the cultivators of Pearapur to cultivate indigo in addition to paddy rice.

They can be distinguished by historical period, and a shōen of each period had specific features in its formation and relationships with the cultivators of its fields.

They are good cultivators, and keep cattle in large numbers. They are also known to be one of the purest Aryan race.

They were good cultivators as well as superb soldiers.

They are provisionally described by Strabo as a mixed race of Celts and Illyrians, who used Celtic weapons, tattooed themselves, and lived chiefly on spelt and millet ; however, Strabo's suggestion of a mixed Celtic-Illyrian Iapydes culture is not confirmed by archaeology.

They grow Ragi ( Finger millet, Eleusine coracana ) for subsistence.

They are fond of sunflower seeds, millet, and thistle.

They prefer millet, but will consume many other kinds of seeds, as well.

They are particularly fond of spray millet, and one or two of these small birds will eat a spray millet stalk within a few days.

They collected harvests of wheat and millet, and also kept dogs, pigs, oxen, and horses, but no sheep.

They are often visible in specimens of obsidian, pitchstone and rhyolite as globules about the size of millet seed or rice grain, with a duller luster than the surrounding glassy base of the rock, and when they are examined with a lens they prove to have a radiate fibrous structure.

They were so ill, writes the legate, that we could scarcely sit a horse ; and throughout all that Lent our food had been nought but millet with salt and water, and with only snow melted in a kettle for drink.

They are a Western Sudanese people who practice sedentary herding and agriculture, mainly the cultivation of millet.

They are mainly agripastoral people, relying on cattle herding at riverside camps in the dry season and growing millet ( awuou ) and other varieties of grains ( rap ) in fixed settlements during the rainy season.

They marched from their villages wearing millet stalks around their foreheads.

They grow rice, wheat, maize, millet and potatoes, normally on terraced mountain slopes.

They tended to build their houses in the Phanar quarter in order to be close to the court of the Patriarch, who under the Ottoman millet system was recognized as both the spiritual and secular head ( millet-bashi ) of all the Orthodox subjects ( the Rum Millet, or the “ Roman nation ”) of the Empire ( except those Orthodox under the spiritual care of the Patriarchs of Antioch, Jerusalem, Alexandria and Peć ), often acting as archontes of the Ecumenical See ; thus they came to dominate the administration of the Patriarchate frequently intervening in the selection of hierarchs, including the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.

They cultivated millet extensively ; some villages also cultivated wheat or rice.

They often maintain three different farms: a garden near their house where vegetables needing constant attention, such as onions, peppers and beans, are grown ; fields further up the hills where quick growing crops such as red millet can be cultivated without irrigation ; and farms farther away, where white millet and other crops are planted.

They grow wheat, barley, millet and buckwheat, and raise goats and sheep for wool, and yaks for hair, meat, milk and skin.

They grow millet and sorghum that they make into a thick porridge ( la pâte ) that is the staple of their diet and that they brew into a thick low-alcohol beer called daam.

They also eat millet, maize, tapioca etc.

They were able, therefore, to grow valuable market crops such as potatoes, melons and tobacco immediately around the village, sow fine grains in the manjha, and restrict the poor millet subsistence crops to the periphery.

They grow millet and sorghum as staples and raise cattle, sheep, and goats on a small scale.

They are Closely related to the Bukusu and Luhya of Western Kenya, they are a mainly agricultural people, farming millet, bananas and sorghum on small-holder plots.

They practiced intensive crop rotation with corn, beans, squash, sorghum, millet, yams, etc., with banana plantations stretching for miles.