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 mere fragments, just one portion of preprepared messages.

They become philosophic abstractions of a private and problematic relevance, or mere catchwords in religious customs which had in them a diminishing part of active belief.

They could not imagine that the Germans, whom they had defeated only twenty years previously, could defeat them in a mere six weeks, as happened when France fell in June 1940.

They have gone from several millions of users at a given time to mere thousands.

They viewed men's oppression of women as ongoing and deliberate, holding individual men responsible for this oppression, viewing institutions and systems ( including the family ) as mere vehicles of conscious male intent, and rejecting psychologistic explanations of female submissiveness as blaming women for collaboration in their own oppression.

" They quote Blavatsky's writing in Secret Doctrine as stating Aryans used religion as an " everlasting lodestar " in contrast to Judaism which Blavatsky claimed was based on " mere calculation " while characterizing it as a " religion of hate and malice toward everyone and everything outside itself.

They may be long and filamentous, or short and reduced to mere knobs or warts.

They scout the notion that their terrible " black tiger " is a mere melanic variation, like the black leopard of the Old World and the wild black rabbit.

They were able to get away with innuendo that would have been unheard of a mere ten years before — in one episode, Sandy refers to Julian and his skill at the piano as: " a miracle of dexterity at the cottage upright "; innocuous in itself, unless one knows that a ' cottage ' was the polari term for a public toilet where men met for anonymous sexual encounters and ' upright ' referred to an erection.

They therefore took great pains to identify valid sources of knowledge and to distinguish these from mere false opinions.

They also treated such ceremonial symbols as the Key and Sash of Rassilon as mere historical curiosities, being unaware of their true function.

They were faced by the advancing Highland Brigade ; a mere three battalions.

They had cut the Tory majority from 102 seats to a mere 21, and for most of the three years leading up to the election opinion polls had indicated that Labour were more likely to win the election than the Tories were.

They believe that the multiple levels posited for English, whether primary – secondary or primary – secondary – tertiary, are mere phonetic detail and not true phonemic stress, and that often the alleged secondary stress is not characterized by the increase in respiratory activity normally associated with primary stress in English or with all stress in other languages.

They are not mere modifications of this cause or properties, as with Spinoza ,-- they are free forces having " their power or spring of action in themselves, and this is sufficient for our idea of independent finite reality.

They include the third largest party ( the Communist Party ), which still commands large support from many rural working areas as well as some of the immigrant population in Greece, as well as the far-right Popular Orthodox Rally, with the latter, while commanding a mere three and a half per cent of votes, seeking to capitalise on opposition in some quarters regarding Turkey's EU accession and any tension in the Aegean.

They are not mere subjects or vassals whose rights are delegated by a higher authority, nor are they passive objects of a political entity.

They do not depend upon mere legends and myths.

They raised their naval strength from a mere 11 squadrons of 3, 000 marines to 20 squadrons of 52, 000 marines in a century's time.

They can consume meat to the bone in mere nanoseconds.

They contain 7 extant families which are generally small but highly distinct, and a mere 12 lampriforms genera with some 20 species altogether are recognized.

They claim that the mere existence of the third-party candidate essentially steals votes (" tilts " or " tips the scales ") from the more progressive of the two main candidates and puts the election in favor of the " worse " candidate — because the small percentage that goes towards the third party candidate is a part " wasted " that could have instead gone to the lesser-evil candidate.

They may also offer services beyond mere cleansing, and turn into a spa, offering medical baths, massages, mud baths, fitness centers, etc., as for example the Spa LaQua at the Tokyo Dome City entertainment complex.

They have thereby transmuted the work from mere scholarship into warning.