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 attended the University of Marburg where historian and jurist Friedrich von Savigny spurred their interest in philology and Germanic studies — a field in which they are now considered pioneers — and at the same time developed a curiosity for folklore, which grew into a lifelong dedication to collecting German folk tales.

They were early pioneers writing demos for the Atari ST platform.

They were invaluable to explorers and were adopted by pioneers.

They recorded their experiences as pioneers in Parr Traill's The Backwoods of Canada ( 1836 ) and Canadian Crusoes ( 1852 ), and Moodie's Roughing It in the Bush ( 1852 ) and Life in the Clearings ( 1853 ).

Other pioneers into the area in 1760 were the exiled French colonists from Nova Scotia, They became known as Acadians after being expelled by the English during the Seven Years ' War.

They are one of the pioneers of the mash-up or bootleg, where two or more songs are mixed together into a new track.

They are often regarded as pioneers in the movement of underground do-it-yourself record labels that flourished among the 1980s punk rock bands.

Other pioneers soon followed ; during the 1670s and 1680s families arrived that would form the backbone of the town: They were the Mains, Miners, Wheelers, Browns, Palmers, Hewitts, and Averys, to name a few.

They promoted colonization in America, and that year Hilton's Point was the arrival point of numerous immigrant pioneers, many from Bristol.

They are seen as one of the most influential punk acts of 1980's and are considered one of the pioneers of modern day pop punk, skate punk, and even melodic hardcore.

They soon attracted good crowds-including other musicians, such as Graham Parker, Nick Lowe and Elvis Costello-making Eggs the pioneers of the " pub rock " movement.

They were pioneers of cotton-spinning machinery, developing innovative products that enabled the mass-production of cotton yarn.

They were among the pioneers in high-performance symmetric multiprocessing ( SMP ) open systems, innovating in both hardware ( e. g. cache management and interrupt handling ) and software ( e. g. read-copy-update ).

They won the initial case against Spaceward in 1990, but finally lost the case against Adobe in 1997 following depositions and demonstrations by a number of Computer Graphics pioneers including Alvy Ray Smith and Dick Phillips.

They can be seen as pioneers of " Volxmusic ", which combines elements of German folk music with jazz, hip-hop or rock.

They are considered one of the pioneers of folk metal.

They ( along with Manly-Warringah and Illawarra ) were one of the pioneers of away jerseys in rugby league in Australia.

They were the pioneers of the computer industry [...] While you might think that a story about the creation of computer companies might be as thrilling as your university Pascal course, think again.

They are regarded as pioneers for being one of the first notable rock groups made up entirely of women, the third to sign with a major label ( after Goldie & the Gingerbreads and The Pleasure Seekers ), and the first to release an album on a major label.

They are recognized as pioneers of the alt-country movement during the mid to late 1990s along with bands such as Uncle Tupelo, Drive-By Truckers, Whiskeytown, The Jayhawks, and The Bottle Rockets.

They are considered to be one of the pioneers of the South African drum ' n bass scene.

They were, together with German bands Helloween, Gamma Ray, Grave Digger, Running Wild, and Rage, the pioneers in German power metal, taking their influences mainly from Helloween as well as from Judas Priest.

They were pioneers of what would become an " American acting technique " derived from the teachings of Konstantin Stanislavski, but pushed beyond them as well.

They are one of the longest-standing bands from the original Gothenburg metal scene, and are one of the most integral pioneers of the melodic death metal genre of music.