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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 on
They could hear the pony's feet on the dry leaves for a while, then the sound faded out.
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 reached the guard house without alerting the men on the walls above, and Powers slipped through the door.
They squatted on their heels in the deep mud and Dill found a cigar in his breast pocket, passing it over silently.
They got tin cups of coffee from the big pot on the coosie's fire, rolled and lighted brown-paper cigarettes, lounged about.
They reined in before the town marshal's office, a box-sized building on Main Street.
They moved in on him, crowded him from all sides.
They returned to the street, mounted their horses, rode through the rain to the big house on Houston Street.
They tracked mud on the oaken floor, on the carpet.
They discussed the way people never tell each other the things on their minds.
They watched the tree until it twisted sharply on a bend.
They could come on him now without difficulty.
They are preoccupied riding herd on control panels, switches, flashing colored lights on pale green or gray consoles that look like business machines.
They inhabit a secret world centered on `` go codes '' and `` gold phones ''.
They squatted on their heels with their heads bent far forward, their eyes only a few inches from the ground.
They differed in the balance they believed essential to the sovereignty of the citizen -- but the supreme sacrifice each made served to maintain a still more fundamental truth: That individual life, liberty and happiness depend on a right balance between the two -- and on the limitation of sovereignty, in all its aspects, which this involves.
They arise in situations in which one believes that what happens depends not only on the external world, but also on the precise pattern of behavior of the individual or group.
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They even talked about Lucille down at the Young Christians' League where I spent a lot of time in Bible classes and helping out with the office work for our foreign mission.
They had hoped that scientific output from the Apollo 16 mission would confirm their suspicion.
They wanted to create in themselves that environment that allowed Jesus to fulfill His divine mission, insofar as they were able.
They were a part of the French 6th Light Armoured Division, whose mission was to protect the coalition's left flank.
They met again in Padua in 1351, Boccaccio on an official mission to invite Petrarch to take a chair at the university in Florence.
They are only distinguished accordingly as they fulfil or reject their mission.
They are capable of cooperating with mutants in order to further this mission.
The mission of Santa Rosa de Arima was established in 1789 when Amerindians from the former encomiendas of Tacarigua and Arauca ( Arouca ) were relocated further east ( They settled in Santa Rosa close to the town of Arima ).
They also note that there was a command transition in Iraq as V Corps and General Ricardo Sanchez took command of U. S. forces in Iraq without being fully resourced and trained for the mission in advance.
They may be appointed to ministry within the local church or to an extension ministry that supports the mission of the church.
They were told they were on a highly secret mission, and were instructed to return to Germany after the operation and enroll in flight school.
They expanded its mission beyond education and exhibitions to include collecting.
They are described by the historian Stephen Tomkins as " a network of friends and families in England, with William Wilberforce as its centre of gravity, who were powerfully bound together by their shared moral and spiritual values, by their religious mission and social activism, by their love for each other, and by marriage ".
They are sent on a mission to rescue Supreme Chancellor Palpatine ( Ian McDiarmid ), who has been kidnapped by Dooku and Separatist leader General Grievous ( Matthew Wood ).
They also attacked and damaged the Spanish mission settlements of San Pedro y San Pablo de Bicuñer and Puerto de Purísima Concepción, killing many.
They were rung to mark mealtimes, to call the Mission residents to work and to religious services, to mark births and funerals, to signal the approach of a ship or returning missionary, and at other times ; novices were instructed in the intricate rituals associated with the ringing of the mission bells.
They are provided a highly advanced computer controlled ' gravitic ' ship with which to carry out their mission.
They reveal that they have set up a base on Rupert ( a tenth planet just beyond the orbit of Pluto ) after arriving in the Solar System and finding that their computer core and most of their memories had been damaged, and have been following the remaining portions of their mission statement to observe the most interesting things in the system.
They consider whether Byrhtnoth and his men acted nobly or failed in their mission to protect the land and people from the Viking invaders.
They also maintain somewhat ambivalent relations with Hobbits for most of the Third Age, although after the mission to retake the Lonely Mountain Bilbo Baggins is held in great esteem there.
They compiled an account of the Californian mission system, the land and the people.
They reached Monterey in 1770, where Serra founded the second Alta California mission, San Carlos Borromeo.
They have five children, including the late Alan G. Poindexter, a NASA astronaut, Space Shuttle pilot on the STS-122 mission to the International Space Station, and the commander of STS-131.
They felt that the word " bum " would be rejected by British censors, and warned that there should be no " suggestion of sexual intimacy " between Sullivan and The Girl in the scenes in which they are sleeping together at the mission.
Although the original purpose of this night mission was spying on the Trojans, the information given by Dolon persuaded the two friends to plan an attack upon the Thracians. They took the spoils and set them upon a tamarisk tree in honour of Athena.
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