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 also paint him as bloodthirsty and cruel, overly fond of both gladiatorial combat and executions, and very quick to anger ( though Claudius himself acknowledged the latter trait, and apologized publicly for his temper ).

They are usually cooked for 5 – 10 minutes for " quick " grits or 20 or more minutes for whole kernel grits, or until the water is absorbed and the grits become a porridge-like consistency.

They are short in stature, quick in bodily movement, alert horsemen, broad shouldered, ready in the use of bow and arrow, and have firm-set necks which are ever erect in pride.

They are sung in a quick tempo.

They distrusted standing armies and banks, and the dismantling of the federalist taxation system meant they could not finance the quick hiring of mercenaries.

They were cheap and were quick to construct.

They feared quick retaliation and swift retribution against the separatists.

They feature the quick but lazy Trinity ( Hill ) and his big, strong and irritable brother Bambino ( Spencer ).

Plutarch provides the most evocative version of this story: But when Egypt revolted with Athenian aid ... and Cimon's mastery of the sea forced the King to resist the efforts of the Hellenes and to hinder their hostile growth ... messages came down to Themistocles saying that the King commanded him to make good his promises by applying himself to the Hellenic problem ; then, neither embittered by anything like anger against his former fellow-citizens, nor lifted up by the great honor and power he was to have in the war, but possibly thinking his task not even approachable, both because Hellas had other great generals at the time, and especially because Cimon was so marvelously successful in his campaigns ; yet most of all out of regard for the reputation of his own achievements and the trophies of those early days ; having decided that his best course was to put a fitting end to his life, he made a sacrifice to the gods, then called his friends together, gave them a farewell clasp of his hand, and, as the current story goes, drank bull's blood, or as some say, took a quick poison, and so died in Magnesia, in the sixty-fifth year of his life ... They say that the King, on learning the cause and the manner of his death, admired the man yet more, and continued to treat his friends and kindred with kindness.

They also tended to toward stereotyping: typically, a small group of ethnically diverse men would come together but would not be developed much beyond their ethnicity ; the senior officer would often be unreasonable and unyielding ; almost anyone sharing personal information-especially plans for returning home-would die shortly thereafter and anyone acting in a cowardly or unpatriotic manner would convert to heroism or die ( or both, in quick succession ).

They are rapidly abandoned, sign of the quick demographic weakening of the Muslim in the peninsula.

They use an arc of electric current adjacent to a solid propellant, to produce a quick and repeatable burst of impulse.

They are required to have at least one straight section and one labyrinth ( three turns in quick succession without a straight section ).

They stalk their prey silently, pounce on it at the last minute, and strangle its throat with a quick bite.

They are useful for controlling vibration, positioning applications and quick switching.

They are intended to be used as aids in order to make quick estimates and preliminary process designs.

They are primarily used by artists for quick studies.

They experience a psychedelic bad trip infused with Catholic prayer, represented through quick edits, sound effects, and over-exposed film.

Such phrases may be used predicatively, as in They are much quicker than I (≈ they are quick ) or they are fond of animals (≈ they are fond ).

They go back to Oregon, and Fertility plans to go on a quick job assignment to make some money.

They ordered an advance by the Imperial troops which resulted in the quick collapse and rout of the weakened Swedish left wing infantry brigades.

They make quick work of escaping from the cage and set their plan into motion.

They would be essential for resupply, quick aerial movement of troops, and refugee relief operations.

They also do a quick upward flick of both wings with each note.